Apple's new version of OSX, Tiger (10.4) hits the market on April 29, it's been confirmed. The changes have been pretty well documented - Spotlight desktop searching; four-way video conferencing; Dashboard widgets for desktop gizmos like weather reports, calculators etc.
The New York Times says Wall Street is confident the release will boost Apple profits.
"I think Tiger is going to be a far more important upgrade than previous versions," said Charles Wolf, a financial analyst with Needham & Company in New York, who holds shares of Apple. He estimated that there were about 20 million Macintosh computer users and that as many as 2 million to 3 million might be expected to upgrade their operating systems to Tiger within the next two quarters.
That would generate more than $200 million in revenue for Apple and would easily cover the software's development costs, he said.
