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OS X Mountain Lion: The 9 Coolest New Features Of Apple's Newly Announced Mac Software

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Apple on Thursday surprised the tech world by unveiling the developer-only preview of what will soon be its newest operating system for Mac computers, OS X Mountain Lion.
OS X Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the release of OS X Lion, an operating system which sought to unify many of the best features of iOS (Apple's operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) with the best features of OS X (its operating system for the Mac). That unification continues with OS X Mountain Lion, which is being touted as an incremental upgrade to last year's major OS release.
Indeed, the Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro, who got an in-person preview of the operating system from Apple CEO Tim Cook, titled her report on OS X Mountain Lion "Apple to Bring iPhone, iPad Features to Mac." What's more, Apple's official preview page for Mountain Lion's features reads "Inspired by iPad. Re-imagined for Mac."
So, what new features can you expect on Mountain Lion (available immediately for developers, and in the summer for users)? Below, find out what's making Mountain Lion roar. Then, read on for in-depth hands-on looks at the new OS X upgrade by John Gruber (Daring Fireball) and Jason Snell (MacWorld) andMG Seigler (TechCrunch).
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One of the most popular (and controversial) features of iOS 5 was iMessage, Apple's text message killer -- any device with iOS 5 (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) was able to messages to any other iOS 5 device for free over the mobile network, totally avoiding SMS charges from the carrier. 

Now Apple is bringing that functionality to the Mac, with a service it's calling "Messages Everywhere." Message will replace iChat and will enable users to send Messages from the Mac to any iOS 5 or Mountain Lion OS X device for free. Conversations in Message will stay up-to-date across all of your devices, regardless of where you're sending and receiving. 

Those interested can actually download a free Beta version of Message for Mac right now; no word on whether Apple has plans for a Windows version.
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