Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Apple’S Os X Yosemite Beta

July 23, 2014

The Basics

Yosemite is a dramatic shift for OS X, and one of the most comprehensive overall changes for Apple’s desktop OS since its inception. The changes permeate the look and feel of the OS, and offer up a host of new features, with perhaps the most notable among those being the new Continuity features that corral iOS devices and Macs even closer together, with functionality flowing between the two on a number of tasks that make sense for both platforms to share seamlessly.

This initial public beta of Yosemite lets users focus on the other changes coming to the OS, however, as iOS 8 won’t be available to non-developers ahead of its official public launch sometime this fall. There’s plenty left to examine, however, as everything from notifications, to Safari, to Spotlight and everything in between has changed with this release, and almost all the changes represent a major step up from what came before.