This blog post by Wil Shipley accurately sums up how I feel about the delay of Leopard until October. Without breaking my NDA, let’s just say that the delay is a good move. Tiger is still working, the sun will come up in the morning, and the fuzzy bunnies will still be around and multiplying faster than you can shoo them away from your yard.
In other Leopard related news, MacFixIt has an article on some of the troubleshooting-related changes that will be taking place. One change that caught my eye was this one:
“The Software Update mechanism in Leopard will force the user to quit all open applications before applying most updates. This change is made in an attempt to obviate problems that can be caused by other processes occurring while new software is being installed.”
I can remember back in the OS 9 days when Apple updates required you to quit all of your active applications. Sounds like we are headed back in that direction.
If this information is true, it’s back to the future yet again.
I, for one, am not too concerned about the delay. After all, a few months for Leopard compared to what? – five years? for Vista?
10.4 works just fine and at version .9 seems to have most all the bugs gone.
Besides, not having to spend money on Leopard this summer gives me more money to put toward buying an iPhone (not to mention, paying for NW Pro when it’s finally out of beta. ;)
Yeah, Leopard delay, not a big deal, check.
But are you serious about that Software Update thing? *groan* That’s not so very cool at all. I much prefer the prompt-to-quit-relevant-apps approach. I only have one computer! I still have to work! Arrrggghh.