Thursday, April 12, 2007
Leopard Delayed!
Well, our beloved new OS Leopard has been delayed until October. I guess resources aimed at finishing iPhone took some resources away from the OS release and caused the delay. You know what I say - get it right!!! I'll wait for an outstanding release rather than buy a buggy release earlier. Tiger works fine for me! What's your take?
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Such a large delay on the release of an OSX upgrade probably means that Apple is in the process of implementing some pretty advanced features. My personal hope is that they add the Wine libraries to OSX so you can run Windows programs in OSX without the need to buy Windows. Right now Wine is in open source development but if Apple throws resources at it they could make it ready for prime time. This is essentially what happened with the Safari web browser. It is based on a lot of open source code with an Apple interface on top of it. If Apple could get that working, the need to own a Windows PC would tend to fall away.
There is another open source project that has ported Unix to run on Windows. It is called Cygwin. This gives you the power of Unix and all its commands in Windows. I use it a lot at work for scheduling jobs to run and using scripts to put the files where they should go. Sort of like automater in OSX but command line.
What makes Windows, be Windows is the DLL libraries. Which is what the Wine project duplicates. They reverse engineered the functions with original code but using the same function calls. Of course they would have a hard time keeping up with Windows development pace. So Vista features would be a long time coming. But they could replace those with the OSX features since Vista is a partial clone of OSX.
The possibilities are endless, Stitch. All we know is that, as you say, it must be huge! I mean, the features that were shown at the last developers conference looked pretty darn good as they were, so the new features must be awesome! As we all know, Apple wants to get it right, and that's why we love Apple!
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