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I’d say they’re making a really good, and probably successful, effort.

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The period between XP’s death and the release of Windows 7 is Apple’s best shot at getting a comfortable foot in the enterprise market. And this proposition will become better with Snow Leopard (and with Exchange 2007 support, they don’t need to migrate their mail servers too).

I think more and more enterprises replacing hardware will note that low-end Macs running Leopard way better than similarly spec PCs running Vista. It’s a good strategy I must say, as a lot of enterprises are vary of Windows Vista. Snow Leopard is coming out next year – Windows 7 in 2010 the earliest. Here’s the thing: I don’t think Apple meant Snow Leopard to be the answer to Windows 7, rather trying to get into the Windows XP replacement business. Seeing that by the end of the month, XP sales will stop, by time Windows 7 comes out, it would be a choice between Vista and 7.įor enterprises, which is Microsoft’s biggest customer group and the sort of base Apple is trying to target with Snow Leopard and iPhone 2.0, I think Windows 7 stands more than a fighting chance. Windows Vista’s biggest competitor is Windows XP (not OS X – uptake for Vista is slow largely because of people sticking to XP not switching to Macs). It may not seem it yet, but by the time release is near, it’s going to become a real talking point. I really think this will be the most interesting and exciting OS release for geeks by far. And we geeks can say we want features, but if anything it still boils down to the same thing, we use the computer to it’s full, we want it to be fast. It’s full-blooded development for the future.Īpple want the OS that matters most to regular users – “is it fast?”.

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Spending the full engineering capacity of 1000’s of developers for a whole development cycle, is not “maintenance”. Some have labelled this as a “maintenance” release.

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Leopard isn’t exactly bloated, as it still manages to be a little faster than Tiger but if your computer could operate twice as fast, just with a software upgrade – how much are you willing to deny that that would make a refreshing difference on the *day-to-day*? Less hard disk space? Faster graphics via the GPU? Better load balancing across 8+ cores (especially when your time=money). Removing the bloat is what people have been asking for for years, and the *day-to-day* improvements would be the reason it would be worth it. If Microsoft spent a whole development cycle just cutting bloat, would you buy it? I suspect many would.

OpenCL: Open Computer Library allows developers to take full advantage of the processing power available on GPUs.

In addition, WebKit’s new JavaScript engine offers much better JS performance.

Media and internet: Quicktime X will offer more efficient playback and better codec support.

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64bit: Mac OS X Snow Leopard will support up to 16TB of RAM, but sadly, no word yet on whether or not 64bit Intel processors will be required, as the rumours said.In addition, the OS itself will become fully aware of multicore processors.

Multicore: “Grand Central” is a set of new technologies built into Mac OS X that allows developers to take advantage of multicore processors.

Microsoft Exchange Support: Mail, Address Book, and iCal will receive built-in, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007.

Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.Īpple lists 5 important points of interest in Snow Leopard: Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard – scheduled to ship in about a year – builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality.

The preview page is quite clear: Apple is going to streamline Mac OS X and increase its performance. During yesterday’s WWDC 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs confirmed this rumour, and now Apple has published a preview page. The news was that the new release wouldn’t focus on new features, but on performance. Earlier this month, we reported that The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s as well as Ars Technica’s sources said that Apple was working on the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard.