Apple CEO Steve Jobs had good and bad news for software creators Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference here: While the next version of Mac OS X will afford Mac developers plenty of new capabilities for their applications, Apple won’t spring the “Tiger” release on end-users until the first half of 2005.
In the meantime, however, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Computer Inc. used the kickoff of its annual developer meet to hand out preview copies of Tiger (aka Mac OS X 10.4), with software developer kits for new features including enhanced video chat, real-time video and image manipulation at the system level, extensive new search capabilities, a new Xcode compiler and an interactive utility for displaying Internet-savvy widgets. In addition, Tiger will extend Mac OS X’s 64-bit capabilities to bring it into closer sync with the company’s PowerPC G5-based desktop hardware. Jobs said Tiger will include more than 150 new features. He predicted Mac developers will welcome 64-bit capability for any application, fine-grain locking, access control lists (ACLs) and built-in Xgrid clustering functionality.
Source: eWeek
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