![]() * Gatekeeper allows you to control who and where you can download apps from to keep your Mac safe from malware. * Game Center has been included so that you can play multiplayer games and share scores and see who's available to play with. * Integration with Facebook so that you can share information on your Facebook page from any app on Mac OS X. * A Share feature is abundant throughout M.Lion to allow you to share information with other users. * A tool called Dictation which allows you to speak to your Mac (via microphone) and converts them to text for you. When your Mac is 'sleeping' and saving power, it can still do updates, backups and sync with iCloud in the background. * Notifications can appear on your desktop, on top of anything else and appear in a neat ordered list when needed. * Supports Messages through iMessage for instant chat with your friends. * Notes for jotting down important snippets of information and you can add pictures or attachments to your notes. * Reminders help you to keep up to date with whats occuring and stop you forgetting things when they need to happen. * Support for the iCloud which keeps your documents, mail, calendar, music, and reminders available over the internet. Like Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion is now completely Intel native and supports some new technology as well. What differences are there with Mountain Lion (10.8) and previous versions? Mountain Lion is the latest version of Mac OS X using version number 10.8.Ģ. The current Apple iMac range now use Intel hardware and processors, replacing IBM's older PowerPC processor range. ![]() It uses a combination of technologies including Mach, NetBSD, FreeBSD, NeXT, and Cocoa. ![]() Mac OS X is Apple's operating system for their Apple iMac range of computers. This should answer any common questions for newcomers that are using Apple's Mac range of compuers. System-wide Dictionary/Thesaurus - I agree entirely.This is a new FAQ for the Apple Mac OS X 10.8 called ' Mountain Lion'. I really don't know what you're getting at here!ĥ. Palette - seems OK to me in all respects. I think your point about the floppy icon is likely to cause many people to discount your article because it is just TOO anally retentive. However I can't do this while I have to have both iWork and Office versions of files on my Mac, so I will definitely be buying Office when it comes out, and iWork will sit on my system not being used, irrespective of its (many) merits.ģ. Otherwise I don't know why they haven't pursued this approach, as I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to be able to junk Office altogether. ![]() I assume that the reason Apple have shied away from making it possible to use iWork as an Office alternative (in particular, by not providing an option to use Office file formats as defaults) is so that Microsoft don't finally walk away from the Mac, although I don't think this really makes sense as an excuse. In other respects I think the MacBU have done an excellent job of the toolbars and I am sure that this UI has the potential to add to the attraction of the Mac for the many people I know who hate the Office 2007 UI for my reasons and the reasons elucidated in your article.Ģ. I like the fact that you can optionally hide the toolbars if you want, so that you can focus on what you're writing - I just hope that between now and release they add the ability to totally hide the gallery as well. In this way I think Microsoft have lost sight of what the product is actually for. It seems like a very programmer-oriented approach to focus more on the UI than on the reason for using it. The gallery - the main reason I dislike this is that it drastically reduces the screen real estate available for editing the material being produced, which surely should be the primary purpose of any software. But I do think it is always very important to maintain a degree of measure.ġ. Please try and find something positive to say in the next article in the series to balance this up! I hasten to say that I have no connection whatsoever to Microsoft and dislike them intensely as a company. Throughout the piece your comments are couched in a critical style, which I don't feel is entirely justified by the reality of what I have seen of Office 2008. Although I do think you make some very valid points, in general I feel that your review comes over as a bit mean-minded.
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