Taiwan: Authorised outlets on the island itself (not in outlying islands) sold Tiger as of 6 pm local time (1000 UTC).Hong Kong: Began selling at 6 pm local time (1000 UTC).Germany: Tiger release parties were held.
Mainland China: Official copies of Tiger did not arrive before the end of the May Day week-long holiday.
However, users of earlier versions of Mac OS X, up through to version 10.1.5, require a more complete installation.Īpple introduced Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger internationally on April 29, 2005. Installing Mac OS X 10.4 is easy for users of Mac OS X 10.2 and Mac OS X 10.3.
Full 64-bit architecture, with backward support for 32-bit programs.Xcode 2.0, including visual modeling, an integrated apple reference library and a graphical debugging remote.Command-line support for features like the above-mentioned Spotlight are also planned. New versions of cp, mv, and rsync which will support files with resource forks.An upgraded Kernel with optimised kernel resource locking, support for 64-bit memory pointers and access-control lists.VoiceOver, a spoken interface allowing the OS to read from the screen, and to permit operation of the OS by voice command.A scripting tool called Automator to link applications together to form complex automated workflows (written in AppleScript and/or Cocoa).A new mini-applications layer based on HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript called Dashboard, adds " Widgets", similar to desk accessories, to the OS, and has been compared to Konfabulator, a third party product.Reader for RSS and atom web syndication feeds built into the Safari web browser.iChat AV that supports up to 4 participants in a video conference and 10 participants in an audio conference.The feature is also used to build the concept of Smart folders into the Finder.