Happy Tuesday,

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is right around the corner, and I’m headed out to San Francisco and Cupertino in a few weeks with Don for the always productive and inspiring meetings with Apple executives, other Apple Specialists, and the developer community. There’s always a ton of buzz before the Apple keynotes given before WWDC and Macworld, and this time around is no exception.

Snow Leopard is no secret, and the Apple website has an in-depth preview. The Apple community is rightfully excited for this sixth major release of Mac OS X, as Snow Leopard promises to breathe new life into multi-core and multi-processors systems with its Grand Central technology. Grand Central promises to help developers take better advantage of today’s multi-core systems, and every single Apple computer now features at least two processor cores.

An underreported feature of Snow Leopard is fully integrated support for Microsoft Exchange. Exchange is perhaps the most widely used mail, calendaring, and collaborative software used in the corporate world, and just as the iPhone is enjoying increased use in enterprise, I predict that Snow Leopard will be the impetus for widespread adoption of the Macintosh in that realm. We still don’t know the exact release date, but each day that passes is one fewer.

Enjoy this issue, and keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com