Besides the iOS 7 announcement, Apple also announced the next major versions of its OS X operating system, refreshed its MacBook Air series of notebooks and previewed Mac Pro desktop at Worldwide Developer Conference 2013 (WWDC 2013), its ongoing annual developer conference held at Moscone Center, San Francisco. Here is a quick lowdown on all the OS X related announcements: OS X Stats & OS X Mavericks: The total Mac user base now stands at 72 million with 35% of them on the latest version, OS X Mountain Lion. The company has shipped 28 million copies of OS X Mountain Lion in the past eleven months. Apple previewed its 10th major OS X release, named 'OS X Mavericks' which claims to introduce more than 200 new features. Among the prominent new features include tabbed Finder windows and document tagging to organize and search files easily, improved multiple displays support and advanced features like support for Open GL4, App Nap (reduces the power consumed by inactive apps), Timer Coalescing (intelligently groups together low-level operations to reduce CPU activity) and Compressed Memory (which rapidly compresses inactive memory to improve response time) among others. Safari browser has also been updated to bring in new features like a new sidebar which combines bookmarks, user's reading list and a new feature called 'Shared Links' which aggregates links from the user's Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Apple has also introduced a new password management system called iCloud Keychain which can store website login passwords, credit cards details (no CVV support), WiFi passwords and account information and sync them across all trusted devices over iCloud.…
