Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple just announced the latest iteration of its desktop operating system.
Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi took the stage to debut the update, focusing on upgrades to Spotlight, the operating system’s built-in apps, and window management features.
Federighi began by demonstrating a few nifty gestures in Mail, including Mailbox-style swiping to delete or mark as new. Then he moved on to Safari, showing how users will be able to pin tabs within the browser, giving them a dedicated slot at the left side of the interface and pre-loading them when the browser is re-opened.
Moving on to more nifty features, Federighi showed how Spotlight has been update with natural language processing. You’ll be able to search for things like “Show me all mail from Phil that I’ve ignored” and it’ll parse your sentence to show you the correct content in apps on your Mac.
El Capitan also picks up some windows management features that might look familiar to Windows users. For instance, dragging windows to the sides of your desktop will auto-fill that side of the screen, saving time spent on re-sizing windows to fill unused space.
Mac OS X 10.11 follows last year’s ‘Yosemite’ release, which brought the look of iOS 7 and 8 to the desktop as well as close integration with the iPhone and iPad with features like “Handoff” and “Continuity.”
The developer beta for El Capitan is available today, but others will have a chance to try the operating system early with a public beta launching in July with a free consumer version available in the Fall.
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