“In addition to the new searching, browsing and back up features for office documents (Finder, Dock, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spotlight, Time Machine) and new support for collaborative information sharing (Mail, iChat, iCal, Server), Mac OS X Leopard also advances support for audio and video media in QuickTime, iTunes, Photo Booth, Front Row, and other applications,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
McLean covers:
• The Origins of QuickTime
• Hardware Sales Push Sophisticated Software
• Desktop Video Publishing
• The QuickTime Canyon Scandal
• Expansion of the QuickTime Parachute
• QuickTime Reborn
• Microsoft Goes On the Offensive
• The Tables Turn for QuickTime
• A New Trajectory for QuickTime
• New Applications for QuickTime
• New QuickTime Hardware
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & QuickTime 7
• New QuickTime Features in Leopard
• Quicktime Applications in Leopard
• QuickTime Streaming Server
• HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
Find out what’s new in Leopard and the origins of the ideas behind rich media on the desktop in the full article here.