Is anyone else anxious to see what the next Apple operating system is going to feature? I know I am, but that makes me a geek. And I’m okay with that.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) on Monday announced that it will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of Mac OS X “Leopard” in August.
A team headed by Apple chief Steve Jobs — including Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing; Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software engineering; and Scott Forstall, vice president of platform experience — will demo version 10.5 of the Macintosh operating system on August 7. [macnewsworld]
I’m sure we’ll hear how the transition to the Intel processor is going, but this leaves the door faily open to lots of new features and tweaks that were only waiting for faster CPU speeds. The other thing this means is that the rumor mill will crank up within the next few weeks with specualtions of what’s to come, not to mention what users, like me, really want, such as better correlation between the address book and iCal. How hard can that be?
And in other Apple news, a handful of other updates were released last week. I have yet to install the Mac OS 10.4.7 update[macnewsworld], but iTunes 6.0.5[apple] and Quicktime 7.1.2[apple] are installed and working fine.