Apple today unveiled OS X 10.9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference, showing off the first major revision of the Mac's operating system since last year's Mountain Lion.
OS X 10.9 is expected to continue the trend of bringing iPhone- and iPad-like features onto Apple's desktops. This is the third year in a row Apple has released a new version of OS X, following Lion in 2011 and Mountain Lion in 2012. Until then, Apple had been going with an every-other-year release model since 2003.
While Apple used to charge $129 for new versions of OS X, Snow Leopard in 2009 and Lion in 2011 cost only about $30. Mountain Lion lowered the price further to $19.99.
Apple used to sell a separate version of OS X for servers instead of desktops. Snow Leopard Server, which cost $499, was the last such release. Starting with Lion in 2011, server functionality became a desktop add-on instead of a separate version of OS X. Sold as an "app," Lion Server cost $49.99. Last year's Mountain Lion Server cost $19.99.
OS X Server contains a file sharing service, Time Machine backups for multiple computers on a network, VPN, a profile manager for Macs and iOS devices, a wiki server, calendar and mail services, VPN, Xsan storage area network administration, and more.
As Apple's announcement at WWDC is ongoing, we will be continually updating this post.
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