By Kane Fulton
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By the time you read this, the latest version of Mac OS X – sorry – macOS, will be available to download from the App Store. macOS Sierra 10.12, to give it its full title, finally sees Apple move away from the OS X nomenclature given to every version of its desktop operating system since 2001.
You might be thinking, “Why macOS?” Well, the answer is simple: the new naming convention brings the OS in line with Apple’s software for its other products: iOS, watchOS and tvOS. After previously naming versions of OS X after big cats of some description, it has turned to locations in California for recent releases.
This latest one name-checks Sierra County, which is home to a beautiful mountain range depicted in Sierra’s default wallpaper.
Apple tends to release new versions of macOS with a “tick, tock” cadence. Back in 2009 it followed up OS X 10.5 Leopard, which introduced hundreds of new features and improvements, with Snow Leopard – an update that opened up the bonnet to improve performance under the hood.
A more recent example of this would be Sierra’s predecessor, OS X …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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