Keynote Summary

The keynote is now over, and before providing a more in depth analysis we would like to provide a brief summary of Steve's presentation (keynote coverage available here):
The main topic was of course Leopard and Steve presented 10 features:
- a new finder
- new presentation
- new menu bar
- new dock
- stacks, even in docks to clean up desktop
- homogenous display
- prominent active windows
- new side bar
- search other Macs and server
- back to my mac
- Cover Flow
To quickly scroll through documents or cycle through the pages of a PDF
- Quick Look
something similar to a feature already available in LotusNotes, but pushed to its limits. It let you instantly preview files without opening applications. It works with most popular filetypes (text, image, video, word, excel etc.). Plug-in modules are available for developers.
- 64-bit
Leopard is 64-bit from top to bottom, let's hope iApps will become also 64-bit too
- Core animation
Integrate core animation covering audio, image and video;
- Boot Camp
Boot Camp is built-in, but not "integrated", you still need a reboot, so virtualization solutions are still valuable. Apple is very happy with Parallels and VMWare and helping as much as they can. The new built-in Boot Camp will be updated via OSX update, so no needs to burn drivers on CD, or update independently.
- Spaces
Steve demoed multiple desktops using spaces, including core animation, and illustrating how to rearrange applications between spaces with drag and drop, easily defining a game space and a working bench space
- Dashboard
As demoed last year, one can create widget directly from safari, such widgets are dynamic too
- iChat
ichat is compatible with all new features, QuickLook let's you share image, video and documents with connected buddies. PhotoBooth add some special effects.
- Time Machine
Makes it simple to to backup your data.
Then Steve could not resist to talk about iPhone, and especially how third parties will be able to simply develop applications without compromising security; The SDK is simple: tit is based on Safari engine built on Web 2.0 and Ajax.
Then Steve announced Safari 3.0 on Mac.... and PC!! One can immediately speculate that it will allow PC users to use their iPhone and applications developed for it directly on the Safari on their PC.
News/Rumors not mentioned during the keynote:
- default ZDF file system: not a single word about it
- no hardware announcement

We will come back with a more in-depth analysis.