![]() Some recent signals hint that at WWDC, which is to kick off June 13, Apple will rebrand OS X as MacOS to move its nomenclature to the format of its other operating systems, including iOS, tvOS and watchOS. company will deliver at least one more update, perhaps a pair.Īpple traditionally announces the newest version of the Mac's operating system at its June Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), quickly offers developers and users preview code, then months later, ships the final. ITunes 12.4, which patched just one security flaw, sported several UI (user interface) changes that Apple touted as resulting in a simpler design.įor several years, Apple has issued just five updates to each edition of OS X - the final OS X 10.10.5, for instance, shipped in mid-August 2015, six weeks before the debut of El Capitan But with several months to go before the next version appears, it's almost certain that the Cupertino, Calif. When OS X 10.12 launches - probably this fall - Apple will drop the oldest of the supported editions, Mavericks, just as last year it retired 2012's Mountain Lion from all support.Ībout one in five Macs ran an unsupported version of OS X in April, according to data published two weeks ago by analytics vendor Net Applications. With its annual release schedule, that means Apple supports an operating system edition for approximately three years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Apple delivered the fourth Safari preview last week.Īpple only patches the current version of OS X and the two prior. Safari is also being run through a beta program of its own with the Technology Preview, a first for Apple, which jumped into the early-look game two months ago. ![]()
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