“One of the lesser discussed (and somewhat hidden) new applications coming up in Leopard is the Apple Screen Sharing Application. The application, packaged free with all Leopard Client disks (as of the WWDC ’07 version) is much like Apple Remote Desktop – but without 95% of the administration features. It will likely cannibalize a small minority of Apple Remote Desktop sales and will fit somewhere between ARD and a VNC client in terms of features,” Cleve Nettles reports for 9 to 5 Mac.

“The application itself is not available by opening the Applications or Applications > Utilities folder (Can be opened manually by opening the terminal and going to /System/Library/Core Services/Screen Sharing.app). It must be invoked by browsing the network and then selecting one of the visible computers on the network. The computer to be controlled will, of course have to be set up for screen sharing in the System Preferences > Sharing settings,” Nettles reports.

Full article, with screenshots, here.