∗ Pre-WWDC ‘07, ZFS, Leopard
Steve Jobs will, in less than thirty minutes, officially kick-off this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. We already know that this year’s conference will focus primarily on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a working beta of which Apple has promised developer attendees will get to take home. Jobs has already revealed major features — Time Machine, Spaces, Core Animation — that will make it into October’s release, but judging by the banners up at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA where the event is, at the moment, about to start, there’s more to it.
Banners put up before the show hint at a space theme: planets, stars, the sun… that sort of thing. And as always, Mac fanatics rightfully go crazy when they’re given these sort of teasers to try and figure out.
One suggestion is links with Sun Microsystems; CEO Jonathan Schwartz recently told the world that Apple would use their ZFS file system in the next version of OS X. Replacing the current HFS+ file system in OS X Tiger would effectively bypass the 64-bit parade for ZFS’ support for 128-bit operations. What’s more, ZFS with its support for system snapshots would work excellently with Time Machine. But all this is still somebody (well, the CEO, really) saying things. And with Apple, nothing’s for taken until Jobs, black turtleneck and all, speaks it.
The show’s starting, and I’m following live updates from AppleInsider and MacRumors Live. A roundup of WWDC’s offerings — and I’m predicting we’ll hear a lot more about the iPhone and third party apps — tomorrow.
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√ Parimal Satyal, on June 13th, 2007 wrote...
That’s certainly not all. In fact, that’s certainly not it either. It’s the beta version of Safari (at version 3) that you’re getting for Windows for free. But hey, one can dream, can’t he? 
I should post a follow-up, especially since my prediction did not come true. Well, I did expect a new Finder, which Jobs showed off in his keynote — incorporating CoverFlow there is an interesting choice that we’ll have to wait to find how well it works — but there was no talk of third party apps for iPhone (in the keynote anyway) or ZFS.
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√ Shekum, on June 13th, 2007 wrote...
You should post a follow up… All I could collect from you was the beta version of Leopard for Windows, Yay!, (embarrassingly, still a Windows user) and for Mac, and that it was free. Thats about it. I’m assuming thats not all, now is it?