At WWDC 2007 in San Francisco, Apple showed off a near-final version of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The operating system, to be released in October, has a lot of new improvements. Microsoft barely manges to bolt on a new interface (and a couple security updates) to Windows XP in six years, meanwhile Apple majorly improves their OS, which was already way ahead of Windows. Here are some of the improvements Apple made:

• The Time Machine backup system
• Dock updated (including the new “Stacks”
• Core Animation
• Spaces, a Virtual Desktop tool
• Boot Camp. Want to dual boot Windows? Go ahead. You don’t need two computers anymore.
• iChat, iCal, and Mail upgrades
• DashCode: Make your own Dashboard widgets with a few clicks.
• And more, obviously.

The revolutionary OS will cost $129 USD. A lot cheaper than Vista, eh?

You can view the press release here, and also the OS X Leopard page. The Leopard page has some screenshots of the OS.

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