[Macpartners] Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" delayed until October

[Albert Willis]

Apple's statement:

Apple Statement
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests  
and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait  
until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience  
what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone  
contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile  
device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we  
had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our  
Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard  
at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.  
While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver  
the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now  
plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the  
conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their  
final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well  
worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're  
sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]



   -- Al



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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu