WWDC 2005 keynote highlights
Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently concluded his keynote address at WWDC keynote address in San Francisco. Apart from the obvious big news already covered on our home page, here are a few other highlights:
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Next major Mac OS X released named Leopard
During his keynote address at WWDC today, Steve Jobs mentioned that the next major release of Mac OS X will be named Leopard. The CEO said that the company plans to release Leopard in late 2006 or early 2007 — in the same timeframe as Microsoft’s Longhorn release.
Read MoreApple’s Developer Transition Kit
Developer Transition Kit
http://developer.apple.com/transitionkit.html
The Developer Transition Kit brings together all the components you need to
create Universal Binaries that run on Macintosh computers using Intel
microprocessors. The Kit contains the information, sample code, software,
and hardware you’ll need to develop a Universal Binary.
* Universal Binary Programming Guidelines
The Programming Guidelines cover all the Universal Binary, Xcode and Intel
topics you’ll need to know.
Microsoft, Adobe to support PPC and Intel processors
“We plan to create future versions of Microsoft Office for the Mac that support both PowerPC and Intel processors,” said Roz Ho, general manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit. “We have a strong relationship with Apple and will work closely with them to continue our long tradition of making great applications for a great platform.” Adobe had this to say: “We think this is a really smart move on Apple’s part and plan to create future versions of our Creative Suite for Macintosh that support both PowerPC and Intel processors,” said Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe.
Read MoreApple to offer Developer Transition Kit for Intel change
Apple also announced today the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple’s software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. The Developer Transition Kit is available starting today for US$999, which includes a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 (a lease until the product launch) running a preview version of Mac OS X 10.4.1, to all Apple Developer Connection Select and Premier members.
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