The New Operating System
Oct 16, 2007 – 12:00 by Ryan
Today Apple announced that they will release OS X Leopard on October 26th. Like every other geek I was pretty excited when I heard the news.
Great, what does this have to do with social applications?
There is a new operating system in town and it’s not a Uni*x variant. Social Platforms are now functioning a lot like large, distributed operating systems. Google has been rapidly working towards this and you could actually say they have a distributed OS. However, I would argue that their OS is missing a GUI (apart from Google created applications). What does this mean for your laptop? You had better really enjoy your local OS because each day there are fewer and fewer reasons to write for the desktop.
Now… Do I pre-order Leopard? I’m excited about virtual desktops or in Apple speak, Spaces.