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Apple may have already revealed a little bit of information regarding OS X 10.7 Lion, but at this week's WWDC 2011 conference Jobs and co revealed a whole lot more.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is only going to be available in the Mac App Store and should make upgrading easy as pie, especially given the new low price of £20.99.
Originally unveiled to developers in February and announced back in October 2010, OS X 10.7 Lion has taken some of what makes iOS great and updated for the desktop.
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Today's announcement sees over 250 new features added to the OS, with Apple's Phil Schiller showing off ten key features at WWDC today, including full-screen applications and multi-touch gestures using the trackpad.
Also shown off was Mission Control, which brings together Expose and Spaces:
Like a super-charged app switcher, Mission Control gives you an easy overview of all your open apps and windows, as well as letting you compartmentalise your windows in various Spaces - keeping work and play nice and separate.
Mac OS X Lion will also have the Mac App Store built-in, bringing in-app purchases and push notifications to the desktop.
Next up is Launchpad, which Schiller describes thusly: "You can get at any app with a simple gesture." It looks a lot like the iOS homescreen, with your apps laid out in a grid set up.
Resume sounds brilliantly useful - it opens apps to exactly the place you left them, right down to the text you had selected when you closed the app.
Also new to OS X Lion is Autosave: "Lion can... save your work for you. It's powerful, but simple," says Schiller. "But there's more; if you don't like what you've saved, you can revert. You can select lock if you don't want it to autosave. You can duplicate the document from the title bar and start working on another version."
And that's essentially the next Lion feature that Schiller is showing off, known as Versions. Each iteration of your document is saved as you go, and you can access all of them. It offers manual snapshots and efficient storage, and only the current version of the document is shared if you send it on to someone else.
AirDrop is the next feature to be unveiled; it's basically DropBox but over a smaller network, allowing peer-to-peer file sharing. It's a drag and drop affair, with data encryption and works over Wi-Fi.
Finally, Mail has been updated in Mac OS X Lion; it looks a lot more like the iPad app, offering conversation view, updated search with suggestions and a favourites bar.
The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion release date will be July 2011, when you'll be able to explore the other 240 features at your leisure.
Also revealed at the Apple keynote today were iOS 5 and Apple's new iCloud service.
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