Mac OS X 10.5 - AKA Leopard

Well, the release of Mac OS X 10.5 is imminent, and we're hearing very little about what's happening with this next version of the OS.

This could mean one of two things:

One: Tt's an evolutionary upgrade, not a revolutionary one, and Apple aren't going to hype it. (ha!)

Two: It's a huge upgrade, with plenty of amazing new features, and Apple know that the best way to get a LOT of talk about it is to not release any details before the event and then suddenly drop it all on us, all at once.

Now, if we look back to the release of 10.4 Tiger, at this stage of the game, there were plenty of features announced, and one the Apple Developer Connection, there were beta builds in the downloads area, and all was good. Features were being hyped, people were running betas, and reporting on them, and there was lots of buzz going around.

So, what could Apple have up their sleeves for this release?

How about a little bit of vino for the masses. Maybe we won't need Parallels or CrossOver Mac to work some Windows magic on OS X.

Now, think about it. Apple are now famous for taking Open Source projects and using the best bits for their own purposes. There may be some issues with the LGPL License that Wine uses, which is very different in it's ramifications to the BSD License that they got a whole heap of OS X under, but I'm sure Apple's legal team can sort that out. How good would it be to have Windows running like Classic did on the PPC based Macs. Have Windows windows side-by-side with OS X windows.

Does anyone else know of any other great conspiracies out there that I should be including in this writeup? =)