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Did Apple's Steve Jobs Hit a Home Run? By Barry Levine June 12, 2007 9:25AM     Much of Steve Jobs' speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference was devoted to demonstrations of Mac OS X Leopard, the next major update of Apple's OS, which will have over 300 new features. Jobs showed several of them, including a new feature called Quick Look, which is designed to preview files without opening the corresponding app.   Related Topics Apple Mac OS X iPhone Steve Jobs Safari Latest News Google Buzz Connects Gmail Users Intel Launches Itanium 9300 Series iPhone OS, Android Gain in Q4 Nvidia Auto-Switches Notebook GPU Macworld Focuses on Mobile Apps (Page 2 of 2) The demo of Leopard featured a visually impressive new Desktop, and features such as Quick Look, giving users the ability to preview files without opening the corresponding applications. Also shown was Time Machine, which automatically backs up files and can roll them back to previous versions. The Spaces software creates separate, switchable areas for groups of applications, an updated Finder can quickly locate files and apps, and an enhanced iChat enables document and video sharing. For those users whose bit-based desktops match the clutter on their atom-based ones, a new Dock offers Stacks, which is designed to help keep desktops clean by hiding contents until, with one click, they fan out. And the new Mac OS X Server Leopard will have a wiki server , a Podcast Producer, and, to find content on other servers, a Spotlight Server. Samir Bhavnani, research director at Current Analysis West, said that he wasn't disappointed in the announcements, but also wasn't surprised. "It's hard for Apple to keep topping itself." He noted that Safari on the iPod and on Windows will give non-Mac users a taste of Apple. "Apple feels that Safari matches IE and Firefox in features, but beats them in speed," he said, noting that Safari could lead new customers to the rest of the Apple family. He also predicted that, because of Time Machine, Apple will make backup a big part of what users will expect from an OS. < Previous Page  |  1  |  2   Tell Us What You Think Your Comment: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com Advertisement  Computing 1.   Intel Launches Itanium 9300 Series 2.   Nvidia Auto-Switches Notebook GPU 3.   MS: Windows 7 Doesn't Hurt Battery 4.   Tips for More Windows 7 Productivity 5.   The Pros and Cons of Apple's iPad

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