Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.
And Apple's stylish operating system, Mac OS, no longer enjoys much of an advantage over Microsoft's products.
They were asking that Apple be enjoined from using the "Tiger" moniker to promote its new operating system (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, natch) anywhere on its web site or in any new advertising, packaging or signage.
All the software, including the iOS mobile operating system and the Mac OS, is written here.
Developers also may get a closer look at OS X Mountain Lion, the Mac operating system scheduled for release this summer.
Even OS X, the Mac's newest operating system, is based on a Unix computing approach only now hitting mainstream PC users through the migration of Linux to the desktop.
The Apple chief also detailed new features in the Mac OS 9, the next version of the Macintosh operating system.
First, it requires a Mac running the Jaguar version of Apple's OS X operating system (version 10.2 or later), which is how it gets its razor-sharp graphics.
If you're on a Mac and using OS X, Spotlight comes with your operating system and is actually quite useful -- I'd even go as far as to say it's awesome.
It will also work with most of Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh computers, as long as they're running a version of the operating system that is 8.0 or higher, but not the upcoming Mac OS X, at least not yet.
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