Steve reveals 10 features of Leopard for Spring 2007 release

Apple needs to do something about windows media player. Flip4mac sucks big time, it doesn’t work with yahoo music videos, neither MTV videos.
All that new features on leopard is for nothing if you can't watch videos online.
I just bought a Macbook Pro and its very frustrating.
Apple needs to deal with real stuff not toys like PhotoBooth.

I totally agree with Billy K, what we need is a stripped down and super fast version of OS X that screams along. Photo Booth- what the hell? I am not a 14 year old girl and even if i was, i could go to an actual Photo Booth.

iChat- let's have some integration with MSN and Yahoo messenger. 90% of my (idiot) friends have not worked out macs are better so I have to mess with MSN stupidity.

Mail: what's everyone complaining about, it works great already. People who use stationary should be taken out and shot.

Of course I'll buy it though, couldn't even dream of not having the latest OS but somehow i suspect it will not be as big an improvement as Tiger was.

@shrimp

Leopard is not the first commercial OS to have virtual desktops. BeOS had it as early as R 4.5 (circa 98 or 99), and maybe earlier. I was amazed by it.

If Quicktime have closed caption support. That mean tv show on iTunes will support well and also new iPod would have CC support for hearing impaired! YAY!!! I'm write my blog!!!!

iPod with CC in future? :o
http://iballoon.crazytech.com/archives/41

Just some thoughts & questions for y'all:

1. Time Machine looks very exciting. The UI is pretty, but I'm more excited by the thought that it could make backup Apple-simple. I haven't taken the step of getting an external USB HDD solely for backup, but this may tip me over the edge. Any of you more savvy types have any ideas for how much room a user would need to fully take advantage of Time Machine? (For instance, my internal drive is a 250.)

2. Spotlight launcher + Spaces switching = death of The Dock? I'm one of those users who hates the dock, and right now I use Classic Menu and Witch in order to minimize my dock usage (I hide it). I'm hoping that these two features will make it even easier to bypass the dock. (And I hope that Apple will let me have the option to turn the thing off, but I'm not holding my breath.)

3. Any thoughts about why Steve didn't do the whole presentation himself? I know he's allowed other people to demo stuff in the past, but less so in recent years, except when it's a third party person.

4. Bertrand's bit was hilarious. This is perhaps one benefit of Steve letting others talk -- he may not have wanted to sting MS as pointedly as Bertrand did. Steve's criticms of MS usually take a friendlier tone.

Dear Time Machine, could you please take me into the future where all my deadline are behind me and all my files sent to clients and printers? merci.

you people are damn hard to satisfy, these were brilliant announcments, mac pro just WOW, and the additional features to osx (not to mention the SECRET ones) brilliant, did you all just want a video ipod or a mobile phone? DUH

I'm excited about Leopard.

So maybe I was a little disapointed that the iTablet STILL hasn't come out ... but screen sharing in iChat looks pretty awesome. And Leopard's Spaces is the first consumer OS with virtual desktops. Sure it isn't a new idea, but they executed it very well. Look at the video, the windows fly in and out while the dock/menubar/deskop stay the same.

But in a lot of these Demos there seems to be a lot missing. They seem to side-step small things. Like in the iChat demo, it says that you just drag a video from the Finder or from iPhoto ... but they don't show you the actual drag-and-drop action.

You want to know what I think? I think a LOT has been changed with the interface, the finder, and the iLife suite, and Apple is going to unleash it all at MacWorld (or the Spring, if need be)

I'm very excited about Spaces. I've used VirtueDesktops and a few other alternatives, but a 3rd party app just isn't good enough for virutal desktops, you need support built into the system or else you'll constantly be dealing with annoying little bugs like windows appearing on the wrong desktop or other 3rd party apps not behaving correctly.

My $0.02

I saw the "Quick Look" too and hope they open it up to programmers like Spotlight plugins. I can imagine a 3D preview for chemistry molecules, proteins, ...

The new iChat features do seem useful -- video chat with slideshow or photo show. No mention of whiteboard features, but certainly great for videoconferencing.

And frankly, as a developer, the new features in XCode 3.0 look positively amazing. Nonlinear debugging. Improvements in Interface Builder, Xray...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/xcode.html

I like the idea of a built-in "To Do" service. Notes in Mail.app are nice too -- seems like Cupertino has been keeping an eye on all the GTD efforts on the Mac.

As for accessibility to new users? I expect that "Spaces" is off by default. So a power user turns it on and keeps organized desktops. Everyone else can ignore it.