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OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the ninth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. OS X Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012, [3] for purchase and download through the Mac App Store, as part of a switch to releasing OS X versions online and every year, rather than every two years.
The history of macOS, Apple's current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the company's project to replace its "classic" Mac OS. That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9 , was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their ...
Until OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, a separate Software Update application performed this functionality. In Mountain Lion and later, this was merged into the Mac App Store application, although the underlying update mechanism remains unchanged and is fundamentally different from the download mechanism used when purchasing an App Store application.
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS[a]) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical user interface ...
This article claims that Apple renamed Mac OS X to OS X because Apple told them the preferred full name of Mountain Lion is "OS X Mountain Lion." I personally prefer "marketed as OS X Mountain Lion" (keep the sentence as is), but I guess I'd better post this issue here. --t OMG 17:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) (also referred to as OS X Snow Leopard[10]) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple 's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. On August 28, 2009, it was released worldwide, [2] and was ...
Starting with Lion, there is no separate Mac OS X Server operating system. Instead the server components are a separate download from the Mac App Store. Mac OS X Lion Server – 10.7 – also marketed as OS X Lion Server; OS X Mountain Lion Server – 10.8 – also marketed as Mountain Lion Server
e. OS X Lion, [5][6] also known as Mac OS X Lion, [2] (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple 's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. A preview of OS X 10.7 Lion was publicly shown at the "Back to the Mac" Apple Special Event on October 20, 2010. It brought many developments made in Apple's iOS, such as an ...