Apple today made available a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which brings many of the iPad’s features — including Multi-Touch gestures — to the Mac. The final version of Lion is slated to be available to customers this summer.
The eighth major release of Mac’s OS also includes Mission Control, which provides a new view of everything running on the computer, combining Expose, Dashboard and Spaces; Launchpad, “a new home for all your Mac apps,” which displays Mac apps in a full-screen layout with a single click; and the Mac App Store.
“The iPad has inspired a new generation of innovative features in Lion,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Developers are going to love Mission Control and Launchpad, and can now start adding great new Lion features like full screen, gestures, Versions and Auto Save to their own apps.”
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