Thursday, April 7, 2011

Lion for Mac and Windows 8 The hot summer of the new OS

ROME - One of rumors and previews are ready debut new operating systems from Microsoft and Apple. Windows 8 and OSX 10.7, code-named "Lion", two platforms are always on opposite sides. Windows has long been ahead in the number of installations, but MacOs has a niche in all respect and no extension. Two very different operating systems at one time but that over time, at least in feeling of use, begin to look alike.

Even though under the hood there are two very different engines. Windows 8, a system platform. The screens come anywhere to be judged with the benefit of inventory. But the new features of Windows, after the clear progress made with Windows 7, suggests an improvement in the wake of the latter rather than a complete redesign.

Micorsoft has a thought, but more than Apple to run its OS on an endless fleet of machines possible, the poorer the netbook more powerful workstation. While the apple built around its hardware to software, a relatively closed ecosystem that allows a different design, Windows 8 will have to adapt to the machine that hosts more than ever before.

It seems that Microsoft is thinking of a different user interface depending on the PC on which Win8 will be installed. Innovations currently appear more aimed at optimizing the use, even in the basic functions of the user interface, now marked by a "ribbon", a display similar to that latest version of Office, even in windows desktop.

Windows 8 as is known, will start soon and will be able to restore the system in two minutes, bringing it back as an initial installation, but does not erase data. A form of advanced management of the register should maintain the system ever developed. There will probably be on the front of the new optical character recognition and tactile Win8 will be able to identify the user's face, eliminating the need for passwords to access the system.

So be careful who you take a picture in the foreground. It would be inappropriate for Microsoft not think of a better implementation of touch controls, because by the end of 2012, Windows 8, in some form, should come with a user interface on the tablet "immersive" specially designed, and communicate better with Windows Phone The mobile operating system.

In this sense, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has announced support for the new Windows to ARM processor. And to complete the tender without falling behind Apple, also comes a Windows App Store, through which supplies programs and games. But to get their hands on the new Windows will have to wait until the show, probably around October.

At present, the os is in a "Milestone 3", distributed on a network for developers, but Microsoft is taking a lot of energy on the design and development is going very quickly. Windows 8 will be seen in detail at the next Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, and the market probably in the first half of next year.

Mac Os Lion, comes the multi-touch. The time for the new OSX 10.7, code-named Lion, are closer. You will see more or less completed in June, at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. At present, the os is still under construction, still unstable and with several bugs, but was released the second "Developer Preview", a version for developers.

Jobs are still being concluded. Apple aims to use the experiences on the integration of Mac and Ios, even though these products with different features and functionality. It is no coincidence that two new applications Lion, Mail, iCal and 5, recall closely versions iPad. Even the accessibility features of the new OS is affected by the "touch" of the iPhone and iPad, with the introduction of Launchpad, a "sovraschermata" that shows all the applications on the Mac, just like the Apple tablet.

Even scrolling windows and the presence of the elements of the Finder button to scroll typical IOS contains the mind to other Apple devices, and the idea of Cupertino it seems that standardize the operation of its machines, and provide a unique use of a meta-brand configure the Apple world, allowing users to not ever be confused.

Functional evolution for Exposé, in which Lion becomes Mission Control, and incorporates all the applications in use by type, allowing you to easily switch between them. Then there is the idea of being able to zoom in on any full screen application, borrowed from the concept of minimalism of the new interface Lion, much more clean and simple.

But the most important innovations of Mac OS 10.7 are obviously those that are not seen, with an optimization of the performance of the operating system, a more fluid multitasking, with applications in the background that consume less system resources. Among the plans for the future, in the next OSX version should have a multitouch technology advanced, with five-finger movements, for which Apple has just filed patents.

But we come back to you in a while, probably when it will come out the first screens "abusive" Windows 9.

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