Apple tree today has released the very showtime developer preview version of Mac OS X 10.vii Panthera leo. Announced dorsum in October last year, Lion and is a significant update to Os 10, bringing a lot of iOS features that work so well on iPod touch, iPhone and iPad to the desktop Bone Ten.

Mac OS X Lion

Total press release is as follows:

Apple Releases Programmer Preview of Mac OS Ten Lion

CUPERTINO, California—Feb 24, 2011—Apple® today released a developer preview of Mac OS® 10 Lion, which takes some of the best ideas from iPad™ and brings them dorsum to the Mac® for the eighth major release of the world's nearly advanced operating organization. Lion features Mission Command, an innovative new view of everything running on your Mac; Launchpad, a new dwelling for all your Mac apps; full screen apps that utilise the entire Mac display; and new Multi-Touch™ gestures. King of beasts also includes the Mac App Shop℠, the best identify to discover, install and automatically update Mac apps. The Lion preview is available to Mac Developer Plan members through the Mac App Store today, and the final version of King of beasts volition ship to customers this summer.

"The iPad has inspired a new generation of innovative features in Lion," said Philip Schiller, Apple'southward senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Developers are going to honey Mission Control and Launchpad, and can at present outset adding great new Lion features like full screen, gestures, Versions and Car Save to their own apps."

Mission Control is a powerful, entirely new feature that unifies Exposé®, Dashboard, Spaces®, and full screen apps to give yous a bird'southward eye view of every app and window running on your Mac. With a simple swipe, your desktop zooms out to display your open windows grouped by app, thumbnails of your full screen apps every bit well as your Dashboard, and allows you to instantly navigate anywhere with a click.

Launchpad makes it easier than ever to discover and launch any app. With a unmarried click, Launchpad displays all your Mac apps in a stunning full screen layout where you can launch, re-order or organize apps into folders. Y'all tin also arrange apps into multiple pages and swipe between them.

Panthera leo brings the full screen experience that iPad users dearest to the Mac. With one click, your application window goes full screen, taking advantage of your Mac's bright display. You lot can swipe from one full screen window to some other and fifty-fifty back to your Desktop or Dashboard.

New Multi-Touch gestures and fluid animations requite you a natural and intuitive way to collaborate with your Mac. New gestures include pinching your fingers to zoom in on a web page or image, swiping left or correct to plough a page or switch between full screen apps and swiping upwards to enter Mission Command.

Lion besides includes the Mac App Shop, where you lot tin can find great new apps, buy them with your iTunes® business relationship, and download and install them in just one step. Apps purchased from the Mac App Store are installed directly into Launchpad.

Additional features in Lion include:

  • a new version of Post, with an elegant, widescreen layout inspired by the iPad; Conversations, which automatically groups related messages into one easy to read timeline; more powerful search; and support for Microsoft Exchange 2010;
  • AirDrop, a remarkably elementary fashion to copy files wirelessly from ane Mac to another with no setup;
  • Versions, which automatically saves successive versions of your document as you lot create it, and gives y'all an like shooting fish in a barrel way to browse, edit and even revert to previous versions;
  • Resume, which conveniently brings your apps back exactly how you lot left them when you restart your Mac or quit and relaunch an app;
  • Auto Salve, which automatically saves your documents equally you work;
  • the all new FileVault, that provides high functioning full disk encryption for local and external drives, and the ability to wipe data from your Mac instantaneously; and
  • Mac OS X Lion Server, which makes setting up a server easier than ever and adds support for managing Mac Os 10 Lion, iPhone®, iPad and iPod bear upon® devices.

Mac Bone X Panthera leo Developer Preview tin can exist downloaded by the users registered on Mac Programmer Plan.

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