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From the Keynote speech...
10 major things that will be in Leopard
64-bit app support for applications, not just Unix layer. Extended all the way through Carbon and Cocoa. Have a fully-native 64-bit UI carbon app, did in a completely 32-bit compatible way Time Machine. Everyone says "back it up." Leopard automatically backs up your Mac. Change a file, it automatically backs up. Photos, music, documents, files folder, everything. Then you can restore everything if something goes wrong. Can backup to hard drive or server. Live demo, using a prerelease version of Leopard. Open Time Machine from the Dock and Finderwindows move through a timeline on the side of the machine, or you can retrieve it by entering a date or time. Works with third-party apps. Demo using iPhoto and Address Book.
The Complete Package. Leopard will include Boot Camp (better than the beta; 500,000 downloads so far), Front Row, Photo Booth. Spaces. Virtual desktops. Rapid switching with demo. Cerating different "spaces" for different groupings of apps. Looks like a standard virtual desktop. Desktop thumbnails in Dock.
Spotlight can now search other machines, if you have proper permissions. Advanced search operations with booleans, filetype, etc. "We want it to be a great app launcher" Core Animation. Allows you to dramatically increase the production value of your application. You can decompose images into layers. Open GL, text, images, video OpenGL, start state, goal state, and key frames for layers and images. Core animation manages the animations equence between those states. All you have to do is specify a start and an end and it figures everything out automatically. Much easier to code for, 4,000 lines of code down to 400.
Universal Access. Braille support. Closed captions for QuickTime, voiceover advanced. No more Zarvox or Trinoids. Sounds like a real person is reading. Audience is impressed. Mail enhancements. "The big one." Mail sees big enhancements. Stationery, notes, to-do lists. Uses standard HTML e-mail for stationery. Includes several templates. New mailbox in Leopard called "notes." To-Do list "is more powerful than just note." Can selet something and make it a to-do item. System-wide to-do tracker. New photo browser window for adding images to Mail.
Dashboard. Over 2,500 widgets available today. Dashcode for developers to help design, develop, and debug dashboard widgets. Visual editor for CSS, ships with parts library (i.e., search fields, etc.)â€â€ÂÂÂcan drag and drop into your widget and you're done. Also includes a full javascript debugger. For users, you can turn any part of any web page into a widget. Can use a button in Safari to create widgets of things like comic strips. Makes demo using Dilber. iChat. Improvements: multiple log-ins, visibility, animated icons, video recording, and tabbed chats. iChat theater: show slides to family and friends, iPhoto slideshow that you can talk over. Photobooth effects via iChat.
I havent been able to view the keynote speach yet (to much demand) but seriously Leopard looks amazing! I mean i think I will be using spaces and time machine the most! i love the fact that i can have like loads of apps open at once and not for the screen to be clutered!
I watched the live feeds coming out on mac rumours and the rest of the sites, text that is, and I saw someone doing a live feed from their macbooks and also I got a download of the keynote. One thing I noticed is the amount of macbooks there (that people had), and they are all holding them up getting live feeds ... I know the Apple developer one is really laggy but it should be available. Not a massive overhaul, but certainly amazing with bootcamp. Using time machine alot? Maybe that would get back any case of a mysterious missing database that got deleted I think maybe they are picking up on what windows had over them (be it small features) like Windows XP's System Restore and Vista's Windows backup. Stationary I don't think I will us alot, its been In Outlook Express for over 6 years, In Windows 98, although the apple templates look great. The windows look better visually now too, and the new safari should be up to standard with all the latest browsers with AJAX etc.
I think their's some really cool templates in Mail and how you can add images, etc is amazing however you can tell they've nicked the notes and todo ideas from Microsoft, i already have notes and todo's in entourage.
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... I know the Apple developer one is really laggy but it should be available. Not a massive overhaul, but certainly amazing with bootcamp. Using time machine alot? Maybe that would get back any case of a mysterious missing database that got deleted 
I think maybe they are picking up on what windows had over them (be it small features) like Windows XP's System Restore and Vista's Windows backup. Stationary I don't think I will us alot, its been In Outlook Express for over 6 years, In Windows 98, although the apple templates look great. The windows look better visually now too, and the new safari should be up to standard with all the latest browsers with AJAX etc.