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Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2005, and was shown to developers for the first time at the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference on August 7, 2006. There Steve Jobs stated that Apple plans to "ship it this coming Spring", referring to the second quarter of 2007. The Apple website continues to state that it will be available in "Spring 2007". Apple has said Leopard will support both PowerPC- and Intel x86-based Macintosh computers. Though Apple maintains that "All features referenced in the Mac OS X Leopard Sneak Peek are subject to change," some officially previewed features include Time Machine, Spaces, Boot Camp pre-installed, full support for 64-bit applications (including graphical applications), new features in Mail and iChat, and resolution independence.