What is known about the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion?

yesterday has passed presentation Apple's, and, as expected, Steve Jobs announced the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion operating system. Platform named Lion combines two products: in fact, Mac OS X and iOS mobile operating system. It is worth noting an interesting fact about the name of the conference «Back to the Mac» ( «Back to Mac»). iOS was actually built on the basis of Mac OS X and adapted to the touch interface. For several years, she has independently developed and acquired a number of interesting features that have proven useful for a desktop OS. Thus, iOS back in Mac OS X ( «Back to the Mac»), received new opportunitiesAbout which we'll talk later.

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will offer support for full-screen applications. All programs will be able to turn on the full screen, as it is implemented to the iPad. This fact, of course, does not mean trying to get rid of the windows, it's just an extension of the operating system features. Switch between open full-screen applications and desktops is implemented using simple gestures.

Another new feature - Mission Control. It's kind of a mixture of Expose, Spaces, Dock and DashBoard. With its help, the user can view all running full-screen applications, windows and widgets area. Switching to any component is implemented with a single click - it is convenient.

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Launchpad feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 from the iOS interface and it works similarly. With it displays all the applications installed on your computer in the form of a set of icons on the screen (in this case, they can be sorted by page as the user desires). A folder created in one motion - the movement one icon to another.

Finally, on Mac computers come online store App Store apps, and it works exactly the same way as in iOS. Applications can be installed on a computer by simply dragging them to the desktop from the App Store window. Update feature centralized applications in the same way as it is done in elementary OS. For most users, it is very convenient. While this innovation - a plus for consumers, it could mark the strengthening of control over the applications from third-party developers. After all, the approval procedure is similar to that content for the App Store in iOS.

In general, while advanced users may be dissatisfied with the updates ( "Why do I Launch Pad, if I run the program Spotlight ?!"), change still lead to better: Now use the Mac platform will be exclusively focused on specific tasks, and easier for ordinary consumers. In addition to the final release, which will be held next summer, a lot can change.