After previewing OS X Yosemite for the second time since its WWDC event in July, Apple announced today that OS X 10.10 Yosemite will be available today through the Mac App Store [direct link when live] at no cost to users. Mac users running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks can upgrade can upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite, although newer hardware is required for some features. OS X Yosemite brings a redesigned look and feel to the Mac as well as several features like iCloud Drive, Handoff and Continuity, Notification Center widgets, and more.
OS X Yosemite offers up a redesigned version of Safari with a birds-eye view of tabs similar to the iOS 8 browser, more intelligent search with results from iTunes, Maps, Bing, Wikipedia and more, more privacy features like DuckDuckGo search as an option, and native support for Netflix so you no longer need Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in to watch content.
Mail on Yosemite is also updated with a new Markup feature for annotating content as well as Mail Drop, which allows you to send attachments up to 5GB over email using iCloud.
Messages can now receive SMS text messages from your iPhone and an added microphone button allows you to send voice messages to other Yosemite users as well as iOS 8 users. The whole app is redesigned with the iOS iMessage look and feel. Messages on Yosemite also allows you to view shared locations of family and friends similar to the iOS Find My Friends app.
Finally, Spotlight is overhauled on OS X Yosemite with more search results from sources like Wikipedia, Bing, Maps and more which include movie times and news with interactive previews.
Mail on Yosemite is also updated with a new Markup feature for annotating content as well as Mail Drop, which allows you to send attachments up to 5GB over email using iCloud.
Messages can now receive SMS text messages from your iPhone and an added microphone button allows you to send voice messages to other Yosemite users as well as iOS 8 users. The whole app is redesigned with the iOS iMessage look and feel. Messages on Yosemite also allows you to view shared locations of family and friends similar to the iOS Find My Friends app.
Finally, Spotlight is overhauled on OS X Yosemite with more search results from sources like Wikipedia, Bing, Maps and more which include movie times and news with interactive previews.
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