Dashboard featured widgets for weather, flight information, stock tickers and more. It included a universal search client, Spotlight, which allowed users to search their entire system from the menu bar for files, emails, contacts, images, calendars and applications. OS X 10.3 also introduced FileVault to encrypt hard drive data with 128-bit keys Font Book, Apple’s simplified application for managing system fonts Xcode, Apple’s developer tool to build Mac applications and a revamped Finder with sidebar for easy access to disk drives, networks and folders. iChat AV let users communicate with audio and video as well as text, and Safari became the Mac’s default web browser after it dropped support for Internet Explorer for Mac. It included Exposé, a useful feature that let users instantly view all open windows at once, view windows of a current program or just view files on the desktop. Panther IDG / AppleĪpple announced OS X Panther at WWDC 2003. Along with a new Finder offering refined search, OS X 10.2 included universal access for the first time and allowed users to magnify screen contents or launch applications with speech dictation.

iChat became Apple’s default instant messaging app, with built-in compatibility with AOL Instant Messenger. Announced at the 2002 Macworld Expo, it featured an updated Mail app that placed spam in a junk folder. While earlier versions of OS X did have jungle cat names, they were not used for marketing purposes until OS X Jaguar.

iTunes was bundled with OS X 10.1 with CD burning capabilities, DVD playback and support for third-party digital cameras and MP3 players. It provided faster menu navigation and log-in as well as configurable options, such as a movable Dock and new system menus with controls for volume, battery life and AirPort access on the menu bar. OS X Puma was announced at the 2001 Macworld Expo in New York. New apps were included as well, such as Mail, Address Book and TextEdit. OS X Cheetah also debuted the dock that still gives modern Macs their notable appearance. Announced at the 2000 Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Mac OS X 10.0 introduced the new Aqua User Interface, which showcased title bars with a brushed metal look, brightly colored buttons on windows and photo-realistic icons. There's also a peek at the upcoming macOS 'Monterey.' Cheetah IDG / AppleĪpple's first major OS X release, known as Cheetah, was a radical change from the previous Mac OS 9, Apple's Classic Operating System. Here's a look at the progression of OS X from its debut in 2001 to the current version of macOS released in 2020.

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