Rumoured new features that did not materialise included a virtualisation engine for running Windows. These include Core Animation, Boot Camp dual OS booting, Spaces virtual desktops, Dashboard with point-and-click tools for building custom widgets, iChat Theatre for sharing documents in real time plus the addition of Photo Booth effects for iChat video chats, and Time Machine, which will automate backing up in "a simple way that people actually use". The remaining six features had already been seen in Jobs' first Leopard preview 10 months ago. For users the difference will be apparent only in performance. "Leopard really will be the first time that 64-bit goes mainstream in the PC world," Jobs said. Unlike Windows Vista there will not be separate 64-bit and 32-bit apps. Jobs' assured developers at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco that 64-bit applications run on every copy of Leopard. The three features of the new-look desktop - Stacks, Finder and QuickLook - were the highlight of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs presentation of 10 of Leopard's 300 new features.
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