OS X Leopard, a.k.a. OMFG (Fake)

** Edit: 9:30a.m. EST — All the features below were part of an April fools joke. Chris Pirillo didn’t know and posted it thinking it was real. I’m so depressed. I just emailed him to give him the bad news. Holy crap — this sucks.

So the rumor mill has begun churning over OS X’s next release. For me, this is the single most anticpated piece of software ever. It’s just that simple.

According to a supposedly secret source, as relayed by Chris Pirillo, OS X Leopard is going to be so unimaginably sick that it’s now pointless to even mention Vista in the same sentence.

Here’s the short, uber-sick list of things that Microsoft hopes it will be able to do sometime in 2014 (but will supposedly be in OS X very soon):

• During the Leopard install, you are given the option to create specific partitioning to accommodate M$ Vista and Linux. Reformatting your HD is not required. Depending on your processor and RAM, all OS’s can run simultaneously & independently. A (minimum) 150 GB HD is required (250 GB is recommended), and 2 GB RAM (minimum) should you wish to run more than one OS. Dual processors are required for optimum performance, though this may change in 10.5.1 or 10.5.2.
• Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
• You can have 3 ‘Finder’ windows open simultaneously, much like having 3 displays, all running different applications or OS’s. If networked, any 3 computers can be displayed. Depending on the function/application, you can even Drag & Drop between displays. Password or Admin. privileges are required. (see #2 above).
• Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better). Included is a customizable Auto Responder and voice activated dialing via numbers or Address Book names. You will be able to automatically send email & initiate iSight meetings, etc. that are linked/pegged to specific calendar events. This feature is called AutoPilot (see #6 above).
• An across the board speed increase of 35 – 40%. YMMV.
• Airport (Extreme only) will notify you via the airport icon flashing in the menu bar if your signal is being hijacked or used by anyone other than you authorized.

Are you f*%&ing kidding me? This is utterly insane. I mean like…sick on a scale that hasn’t been seen before.

I have never been so enthused with the world of computers as I am right now with what Apple is doing. I just can’t believe the difference between them and Microsoft when it comes to innovation.

It’s like Microsoft isn’t even trying. Apple is doing mult-OS environments and creating what’s probably going to be the PDA to have, and meanwhile Microsoft is contending with most of their own programmers being utterly disenchanted with their new flagship OS.

At this point it’s just getting silly. Apple is just owning Microsoft at every turn. The only places they aren’t is where Google is instead.: