CUPERTINO, Oct 1 — Yesterday, Apple made available the latest update of its Mac OSX operating system. Named El Capitan after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park, the update does not bring any major changes compared to the Yosemite operating system launched a year ago.
2015: El Capitan
The El Capitan operating system doesn’t introduce any spectacular developments, with the exception of facilitating the side-by-side cohabitation of two apps on screen (Split View mode), search in Spotlight that extends to a number of other online sources (weather, traffic, sports results...) and a few practical modifications in Mail and Safari. The new San Francisco font that users will see is the same one used on iOS 9. Mac OS X El Capitan will be available for free download.
2014: Yosemite
The last major evolution in the functions of Apple’s operating system took place last year with the launch of Mac OS X Yosemite, which was defined by the convergence between Mac OS and iOS. Beyond the visual aspect, a number of features now allow users to surf from one terminal to another easily. The Handoff tool allows users to begin an activity in one application — writing an email for instance — and finish it on another device. Yosemite also makes it possible to receive and make calls and send texts directly from a Mac, making it possible to answer an iPhone call from your computer. Thanks to Airdrop, sharing documents between different nearby Apple devices is easy. Finally, Mac OS X Yosemite inaugurated a new cloud-based storage tool named the iCloud Drive that stores all types of documents including photographs and videos and allows users to gain access, modify and synchronise the contents from any terminal.
2013: Mavericks
A year before that, Mac OS X Mavericks revolutionised the operating system by becoming the first free Mac OS X update. Mavericks had also presented some noteworthy advancements like the introduction of new applications (Maps and iBooks) and the redesign of others (Notes, Calendar, Contacts), tabbed browsing in Finder and a revised interface for Safari. — AFP-Relaxnews
