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Apple To Demo Mac OS X 'Leopard' At Developer Confab

By Gregg Keizer, CRN
June 26, 2006    1:29 PM ET

Apple Computer Inc. on Monday made it official: It will preview the next Mac OS X operating system, code named "Leopard," at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in August. <P> Although long-expected by Apple followers and promised by chief executive Steve Jobs in 2005, the announcement was the first formal acknowledgement by the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer and consumer electronics maker that it would actually have something to show at WWDC. <P> A team made up of Jobs; head of marketing Philip Schiller; the vice president of software engineering, Bertrand Serlet; and the vice president of platform experience, Scott Forstall will demo Mac OS X 10.5 at a keynote on WWDC's opening day, August 7. <P> Apple also said that it would include multiple conference tracks during the five-day San Francisco event which will go into more detail on Leopard. <P> At last year's WWDC, Jobs said Apple would release Leopard by the end of 2006. The new operating system will be the first to support both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs from the get-go. <P>


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