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Open Thread: Leopard Preview
Merlin Mann | Aug 7 2006
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek Like most of you, I'm keeping an eye on today's previewed features of the upcoming "Leopard" (OS X 10.5) release. Looks like some interesting ideas -- many of which, as usual, seem inspired by existing third-party products. I think I'm most intrigued so far by the idea of "to-do" functionality from within Mail.app (thanks for the tip, Matt); let's hope that also means I can deep link to a given email from my iCal task list. I also welcome the concept of built-in email templates -- although I'm kind of bummed that they seem more focused on execrable 1999-style HTML emails than on the kind of functional time-savers found in the peerless MailTemplate. To be honest, on first blush -- and I'm sure there's much more to come by the time of release -- this feels a bit cute and a little light on really revolutionary stuff (the long overdue promise of something like Time Machine notwithstanding). Stuff like (yet. more.) iLife integration is handy enough for the notional Swithcher and Grandpa Joe, but in general I guess I'm hoping for some serious power-user improvements to the core functionality. Maybe that's just me. What do you think? What's "Yeah!" and what's "Meh?" Anybody else holding out hope for some really deep Finder rewriting and more functional iCal updates? Other coverage55 Comments
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 @Matt: "Windows does have it. It’s...Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on August 8, 2006 - 8:43pm.
@Matt: "Windows does have it. It’s just another one of their myriad features that no one knows about. Man, I sometimes wonder if the unknown functionality of Windows and the marketing machine of Apple could get together… we might finally know what Windows can REALLY do besides 'get viruses'." I do actually vaguely recall Windows having some sort of system restore. From my recollection, Windows can only restore your entire system back to a given state, and I remember it as being fairly limited in how far back you can restore. Time Machine looks drastically diferent, since you can restore individual files and bits. The functionality is built within and used throughout, at least as it appears to me, and it isn't just an 'Ooops, my whole computer got screwed up by that one program I just installed' button. But then I haven't used Windows for so long – I might not be accurately portraying the feature you're refering to. » POSTED IN:
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