[JohnSheppard]

ping

[coconutt2000]

This sucks... I was counting on Leopard’s new iCal and CalDav features for the office. SOHO Organizer really sucks.

[martin_fierro]

Feh.

[HAL9000]

So Mac OS X 10.5 will miss the peak of the back-to-school buying season - but it should be in good shape for Christmas.

Fortunately, the current 10.4 release is still an excellent operating system - and certainly better than Windows Vista.

[Yossarian]

I’m bummed out by this - I was supposed to get complimentary Leopard client & server as part of my Apple Developer Program - and that was a big part of my justification of the fee.

But I’m also not surprised. I’m running Leopard right now as I type this, and while I can’t say much (NDA), I’ll say that my impressions are the same as the WWDC keynote: there’s a lot of good & important stuff under the covers (full 64 bit, fully UNIX compliant, opportunities with Core Animation and system-wide to-do lists, etc.), but the “day-to-day” operations with the Finder and basic apps are exactly the same.

Apple really needs those “Top Secret” features that Steve withheld from the keynote in Leopard, and then needs time to debug the whole thing before shipping. Disclosure of features at mid-June WWDC = 4.5 months to debug before end of October. That’s cutting it close. I hope they disclose the new features before that, so they have 6 months to wrap up.

[George W. Bush]

Disappointing. But better to wait till fall than launch something half-baked like Vista.

Vista is still screwed after seven years. Leopard will make the 64-bit transition, get a new GUI, UNIX 2003, ZFS, Time Machine, revamped OpenGL/CoreImage, CoreAnimation, new simplified Quicktime AP, resolution-independence and other great new features in a fraction of that time.

I notice M$ is closing down WinXP OEM licenses forcibly at year end, something Dell and HP don't seem to like. Vista has been a disaster for them. Also very few upgraders though we've seen a few non-technical FReepers buying Vista.

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like this story was spot on.

[rimshot!]

[jalisco555]

I wonder if this also means they will delay refreshing their laptop line as well. I’d like to replace my four year old rev A G4 Powerbook but I’m waiting for the refresh.

[cowboyway]

“While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. "

If this was MS, they'd release Leopard now with a planned patch for October.

[N3WBI3]

What crap, way to go apple! Lets focus on an overpriced (albeit nice) cell phone and hork off the people who are waiting for the next OS.