“Apple Inc. is set to release its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as early as the end of March, according to sources,” FinancialWire reports.
FinancialWire reports, “The operating system is touted as an answer to Microsoft’s Vista, which was introduced on January 30.”
MacDailyNews Note: Puleeze. Leopard most certainly is not being touted as such by anyone who knows anything at all.
FinancialWire continues, “Apple’s OS X for MacIntosh PC’s was not expected until later in 2007, but development of the system is moving faster than anticipated.”
Full article here.
See Apple’s sneak peek of Mac OS X Leopard here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s official line has never wavered and remains “scheduled to ship in spring 2007.”
MacDailyNews Take: Leopard “touted as an answer to Microsoft’s Vista!” Sheesh, we’ll be laughing at that one for awhile!
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Just curious… I haven’t been following the Vista feature set much since it began to be eviscerated… Are there any useful features in Vista that aren’t in Tiger? And if so, are they in Leopard?
Sign me up for a new Mac with Leopard. YeHesss!
Since when did Spring 2007 become “. . .not expected until later in 2007. . .”?
The real Wow will start in March.
It’s nearly feeding time at the zoo, and the Leopards are getting hungry.
Moo!
Corection: Vista is MS answer to Panther.
day late, dollar short, as usual
I am sick and tired of hearing people say Vista is equal to Tiger, let alone Leopard or even Panther.
Vista/Longhorn over promised, under delivered and is a mess until SP1 comes out.
Maybe Vista would be equal to Tiger if all the over promised featers actually made it in the final version and they actually worked.
I hope it comes out in March. That would be really cool. I’m excited to see if there are any features we haven’t been told about.
and here I thought Vista was M$ wrong answer to tiger.
I just hope that Apple FTFF this time.
With XP being Microsoft’s answer to OS 8, and with Vista being merely a glossy update to XP, I’m going to peg Vista as Microsoft’s answer to OS 9. Hell, I’ll even give ’em OS 9.2.2.
Vista’s Explorer is way better than the finder. but then again so is the one in XP so that’s no reason to upgradet o Vista. It is probably a better indicator of how much the finder sucks 🙁
justified —
XP was vastly superior to OS 8 or even OS 9. The functionality and expandibility of XP far superceded 8 and 9. All three were vulnerable to viruses, so security is even.
XP vs the MacOSX versions is a completely different story.
Vista is tainted as an answer to XP sounds more poetic I think.
@ Justified
That would be hilarious… if it wasn’t so true !
Vista doesnt give anyone anything new, except for maybe more
problems !
The tide is turning .. expect Leopard to blow away Ballmer
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and all his chairs !!
um, apple releases os updates faster than government officials terms are up.
microsoft: not so much
@ jeff
“…..All three were vulnerable to viruses, so security is even…”
Even ? …. Hardly !!
Do the numbers … As I recall .. (and if Im wrong, here, Im sure someone more astute in this area will correct me) .. there were something like … 60 to 65 virii (total) which affected the classic Macs …
What about WinDoze ?? … wasnt it something like 1800 ?
I wouldnt call that “even” !
Apple’s official line has never wavered and remains “scheduled to ship in spring 2007.”
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Actually, Apple’s initlal official line was “Late 2006 to early 2007 or about the same time Vista ships.” – Steve Jobs WWDC
“Vista’s Explorer is way better than the finder.”
I agree. The OS X version of the finder is the one of the weakest areas in the OS. I was much happier with the Finder in OS 9. I’ve gotten used to OS X, but I don’t “love” it.
(@Emil)
How is Explorer better than Finder? Lately, I’ve had to use XP a fair amount and find Explorer much less intuitive than Finder. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to Finder, but I find I can do anything I want with Finder just by applying its general principles to something new. Whereas Explorer seems much more restricted and I have to discover exactly how to do whatever it is I want to do.
Am I missing something?
Jake
Vista amounted to Microsoft’s answer to Tiger. When it was still Longhorn, it was MS’ answer to Panther, but … times change. So, since Tiger was the Mac OS when Vista was released, Tiger is what’s being “answered”. Still, it isn’t a really GOOD answer. If it were, then Leopard might be considered an “answer to Vista”, but Vista isn’t even selling credibly well. Else why the complaints about Piracy?
Vista caught the glamor of Tiger, et al. It also managed to hold on to some of the features that cause Tiger to stand head and shoulders above XP – but not many of them. Worse – for current owners – is that most who would upgrade the OS will also have to upgrade the hardware, to something costing nearly as much as a Mac. Why not go the whole way? Get a half-price 3-year-old refurb that will easily run Leopard … for less. Yeah … a 3-year-old PC is worth … nothing? … while a 3-year-old Mac is just catching its second wind.
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I think Leopard is going to be the cat’s meow…with a little marketing, I think even the mainstream press might come to see it as being in a different league than Vista.
Report, not rumor, gossip, speculation, or hearsay? Has MDN gone crazy? You guys do realize that you’re now accountable, right?
Leopard is the “answer” to Vista? Best comic writing I have read today.
> The operating system is touted as an answer to Microsoft’s Vista…
That can be accurate in a way. If Leopard is the “answer” to Vista (the question), it goes something like this.
Question: How do fix the mess I’ve made buy upgrading to Vista?
Answer: Get a Mac with Leopard.