Apple is developing a new operating system, OS X 10.9

After almost half a year after the debut of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in the web there is evidence that Apple is developing the next version of the operating system for the Mac. According to C-news, online recorded at least 30 cars that are running the next generation desktop platform OS X 10.9.

Over the last few years Apple has moved to an annual renewal cycle OS X. The latest version - OS X 10.8 - was published in the shop Mac App Store in July of this year. Previous - OS X 10.7 Lion - launched in July 2011. Earlier update cycle was twice as long as: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released in August 2009, and OS X 10.5 Leopard - in October 2007. Thus, a new version, under the alleged codename Lynx, expected in the summer of 2013.

Apple believes that the most promising variant of OS X is the convergence of desktop and mobile operating systems. In particular, the interest in this Federigo Craig, senior vice president of software development, and Bob Mansfield, who recently led a new direction for the development of semiconductors.

Apple has already started to integrate the functions of iOS in the desktop version of the operating system with OS X 10.7 Lion. Mountain Lion In this concept was further developed: The most recent operating system contains  the 10 most popular iOS features , including iCloud, messages, reminders, notes, Center notifications, Twitter, quick link, Game Center, AirPlay video replay function and voice input data.

In Apple intend to make the experience of interaction with any of the devices of the company was the same. For this reason, it is expected that in the years to OS X will be strongly modified. Update the team plans to move precisely this course.

Top 10 fastest browsers on Mac and Windows

The research firm New Relic released the results of the study of modern browsers for the desktop and mobile operating systems to determine their performance. Experts note that the information at their disposal, the system is processing over 1 million visits to web pages every minute and over 40 billion each month.

According to the researchers, Google Chrome 19 is the fastest browser for Mac OS X, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 - on Windows. They have the lowest response time.

Among browsers for Windows Internet Explorer 10 application bypassed competitors like IE9, Firefox 15, Safari 5, Google Chrome 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22, and Opera 12. The slowest in the top ten is Chrome 22. In the top 10 of the fastest browsers for Mac OS X there is no standard version of Safari, as well as Opera. All ten positions occupied by various versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Fastest browser on mobile devices has become the browser on BlackBerry OS 5. Eight points out of ten of the most high-speed web browser for smartphones took different versions of Opera Mini.

Additionally, New Relic has found popularity rating browsers on different operating systems. Thus, the most popular sites Viewer for Windows is Chrome (41%). Own browser Microsoft - Internet Explorer - took second place (35%). The third position - Firefox (21%). Opera and Safari are followed by a large margin - 2% and 1% respectively.

The most popular web browser for Mac is - Safari, which owns 61%. In second place - Chrome, with a share of 21%. In the third - Firefox, which took 18%.