“What is coming in Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard? Does anyone outside the executive suite in Cupertino really know? Putting aside the half-baked rumors and hoax pages floating around Web, the truth must wait for Steve Jobs’ keynote address at the company’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in early August,” David Morgenstern writes for eWeek. “But that shouldn’t stop us from dreaming.”
Morgenstern’s short list of improvements that he’d like to see in Leopard:
• More support for small businesses: The Mac platform needs an application or an integrated suite that provides the functions of Microsoft Outlook on the Windows platform.
• Improved Windows support through virtualization: Apple can’t afford to rile Microsoft right now (or at any time, really). Microsoft can see the advantage of Mac users running copies of Windows on Intel Macs. But something like Wine would set off fireworks in Redmond.
• Make Automator fit for ordinary people: Automator is great stuff, but still too tough at times for everyday use by ordinary users. Most Actions are scripted by professionals. It must be made more accessible and easy to use.
• Refine Spotlight searching: I don’t know if I can express exactly what must be done to take Spotlight to the next level, however, I know it must improve.
• Fix the performance of the Finder and the networking stack: Finder is still acting erratic at times and it too much to ask that Apple fully test on Windows networks—any and all Mac OS X releases—before they ship?
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Fixes and features Apple should build into Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard – June 29, 2006
I would like the Finder to stop hanging if I insert a CD that it has trouble reading. Whether blank or written, the Finder can really wig out on a bad disk. Boot sector or whatever, I wish Apple would put a time limit on the seeking routine.
Spotlight is hopeless as it is. I always have a hard time finding a file by it’s name. And in system prefs ->Spotlight, I have images turned off and spotlight still searches and of course finds the images and takes more time and processor cycles to do this and then displays the images too.
Option to show by date modified in column view.
Need: A contextual menu in the Finder to easily move/copy files from one location to another. Mail has it done quite nicely: “move to” and “copy to”. Right now the only contextual “move” function available in the Finder is “move to trash”. Why not just call it “delete” like it is in Mail or other parts of the Finder (e.g. the delete toolbar option)?
Copying/moving files in the current Finder is inefficient a lot of the time (open up two windows side by side, or spring loaded folders, or copy and then paste, back and forth or use the sidebar etc).
What’s with the Alice In Chains lyric?
Hi
I guess what he wants in the first instance is a Outlook Exchange like feature like sharing your calender, sharing your addressbook?
I would love a feature like that and that could be a easy way to keep the windows boxes out of the offices. Since right now doing iCal sync involves havng to subscribe to everyone of the calenders on every machine – whitch is a pain.
And last having a iCal calender that everybody could edit is a high wish from me.
And address – I want to be able to setup a share calender on out server (Mac OS X) that propergates out to all the machines.
I work a Mac consultant – a thats what my customer wants – not more fancy features.
Best Regards
Jonas