“The information comes from an entry posted earlier today in a database of changes to the open source ‘launchd’ framework, which oversees booting of Mac OS X and administers processes running on the system,” Slivka reports. “Apple’s build numbering scheme [indicates] that, while still early in the development process, Apple has been working on builds of the next major operating system revision for at least the last month or two.”
Slivka reports, “Of course, news that Apple appears to be working on Mac OS X 10.7 is certainly not surprising given the long development time required to refine and polish Apple’s major operating system releases. While 10.6 incorporated many “under the hood” changes, however, some have speculated that we may see more radical end-user changes in 10.7.”
More info and links in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Clouded Leopard is a beautiful cat, named for its spotted coat; it’s seldom seen in the wild and its habits remain quite mysterious.
In case you’re wondering how long Mac is going to ride the Leopard train, here’s a hint from Wikipedia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_(disambiguation)
It would be news only if apple WASNT working on 10.7.
Clouded Leopard makes sense. Seems much more sleek and small then a leopard or a snow leopard. Of course Clouded Leopard must also allude to the new focus Apple has had of late on cloud computing.
With the amount of cloud services Apple will eventually host I could see the next version being entitled as such.
A slight bit of license with the name: Cloud Leopard
this is stupid. Companies are always working on the next big thing immediately, if not before the release of a product.
What else would they be doing? Thumb twiddling?!
“This just in, Apple working on next gen iMac!”
See how easy that was.
time for the BIRD names to start….
OS X 10.7 FALCON…
It lives in the cloud!!!!
Ii personally expect 7 in 2011. And I’m not at all surprised that they’ve already started.
Frankly, knowing Apple, they already have a huge backlog of ideas they want to implement based on the amazing new possibilities that Snow Leopard has incorporated ‘under the hood’. The ideas they implemented in Snow Leopard were not looking back to preserve legacy technology but looking forward with vision to enable the future.
I can’t wait! But I guess I have to.
@PR
It’s blind in the cloud(s)!!!!
They could call it OS X Felicity, named after my gorgeous tabby cat who is purring next to me as I type this
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@ Jamie
Wow. You’re even gayer than I am.
How about Cougar – an ode of the older women who use macs.
@ RL
“….How about Cougar – an ode of the older women who use macs…”
Didn’t Ford / Mercury have that one locked up.. back in the 60’s ?
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MAC is scrambling to provide an answer to the blockbuster success of Windows 7. The MAC sheep are getting restless (jealous?) after Snow Pussy was trounced by Win 7’s stunning performance and features. Maybe MAC should call it a day and license Windows and be done with it.
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Hmmm… So much for more Leopard upgrades for my aging TiBook. 10.5.8 is as far as it will go, I guess.
Snappy Leopard?
Deft Leopard?
I want Lion
i agree , sod the cats , let’s go flying
10.7 = hawk
etc
I got news for ya, work on 10.7 started several days before snow leopard was released
Crap I’ve actually laughed at ZuneThang twice this week; nunca mas.
I thought the next one was already announced, and its name will be Lion? (I thought I read that somewhere.) Have Apple announced the next name, or not?
I don’t know what Zunethang is smoking. I hope it is leagal. Did you notice that the Apple share of the PC market is rising and Microsoft’s share is falling!!!!!!!!!!!
Big(ish) cats still unused by MacOS X – Lion, Ocelot, Lynx, Serval.
Presumably they’ll only use Lion for a really big release.
I have to say, the Clouded Leopard’s coat looks mighty spiffy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouded_leopard
It’s also interesting that the Clouded Leopard is considered a separate genus from the other big cats – the name would further emphasize OS X’s one-of-a-kind nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofelis
Market share has become irrelavent, it is just a rounding error like Balmers IQ.