Apple previewed Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X, to its third party developers. The new Leopard offers 64-bit computing along with 32-bit legacy support without emulation.
Apple’s pointed new features of Mac Leopard operating system includes Time Machine, a new way to automatically back up and restore everything on Mac, and Spaces to instantly switch between groups of applications required for various tasks. There are also improvement to Spotlight, a search feature, and improved iChat, as well as a new Dashboard feature that will contain around 2,500 Widgets. So called Core Animation developer tool, which will be part of the updated Mac OS X, can be used to create motion graphics with only little coding.
Leopard is scheduled to ship in spring 2007.
