Apple Senior Vice President of OSX Software Bertrand Serlet delivers a keynote address on the new Snow Leopard operating system at the Apple World Wide Developers conference in June 2009 in San Francisco, California. Apple announced on Monday that its next-generation Snow Leopard operating system tailored for the California company’s Macintosh computers will be unleashed on the market on Friday.
Apple announced on Monday that its next-generation Snow Leopard operating system tailored for the California company’s Macintosh computers will be unleashed on the market on Friday.
Rather than focusing primarily on new features, Snow Leopard will enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the vast computing power of graphic processing units (GPUs), enables breakthrough amounts of RAM and features a new, modern media platform with QuickTime X. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year.
“Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we?re happy to get it to users earlier than expected,” said Apple senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet.
Apple unveiled Snow Leopard at a gathering of software developers in June and estimated that it would be released in September.
Macintosh users will be able to upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard to Snow Leopard for 29 dollars, according to Apple.
“For just 29 dollars, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world?s most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support,” Serlet said.
Snow Leopard has built in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 software as well as for Macintosh email, address book, and calendar programs.
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