Apple WWDC banner: ‘Mac OS X Leopard. Introducing Vista 2.0’

Gernot Poetsch has posted a photo taken through the glass of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, site of today’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), that, besides an inconvenient streetlight, shows a black Apple banner with an image of the top half of a Mac OS X Leopard DVD and the text:

Mac OS X Leopard. Introducing Vista 2.0

Another similar banner below in the same shot states, “You’ve come to the right platform.”

In addition, a third banner (here, obscured) captured by Poetsch states, “Hasta la Vista, Vista.” (MacNN has a clearer version here.)

See the large version here.
That ought to grab some attention (as if Apple needs attention today)!

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37 Comments

  1. BrooklynNYC: Who says Leopard will be out before Vista? Apple have said ‘around the same time’ not before. Plus, is not even public beta yet – to expect it to coe out before Vista is wishful thinking.

  2. Ah, Public Betas!

    Now I know Apple has used public beta’s for applications, but I can never remember them issuing an OS upgrade under those terms. That’s the kind of thing a lesser company would do when it wants to abdicate its responsibility for making sure the platforms is secure and stable…and we all know where that leads.

    I have a strangely prescient magic word: OVER, as in Vista is so over.

  3. Shoudn’t it be “Vista 1.0” since it will be out before Windows Vista AND Vista is the copy?

    No, when 10.4 (Tiger) was released Apple had banners saying “Redmond Start Your Photocopiers” and “Welcome to Longhorn”. “Longhorn” was the codename for Vista 1.0 which of course Microsoft hasn’t even released yet. So to further add insult to injury, Apple is now touting 10.5 (Lepoard) as “Vista 2.0”

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