I’m sure this is hardly news to most people, but as Apple has been promising, and as expected, Apple will be releasing Tiger on April 29, 2005.

In addition to the general fine-tuning of the core technologies driving OS X, I am looking forward to see how OS X 10.4’s new technology Spotlight will improve the usefulness of the Mac desktop. This is the feature that feels most futuristic and high-tech. It may seem silly to refer to a basic search functionality as “futuristic” or “high-tech”, but really search technology has come a long way even in just the past 5 years, and we’ve come to see that innovative and intuitive searching is actually quite hard to come by. I am hoping that Spotlight will provide a sophisticated and intuitive interface to this end.