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A few words on Tiger 8A369 and Tiger's development

Asking my "usual suspects" about the new Tiger build, they all say about the same thing: "First usable build." (Although at least one source has actually used 8A351 and 8A351B as main system build for a few days.) 8A369 feels better overall and more stable in details, too. It's also the first widely seeded build to not only include localisations, but also complete localisations. This is usually a sign that the feature set of the operating system is complete, i.e. we're now definitely in the beta phase of Tiger.
Tiger's not expected to ship in February, and sources say that March will probably pass without a Tiger release as well - although it would coincide with OS X' birthay, which would make for a nice marketing event near the end of March.
The build's speed is also noted as being much snappier than the last few seeded. Optimisation and bug-fixing is now Apple's task in Tiger.

[ written by fryke™ on 2005-02-05 at 03:34 CET ]
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