Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com)

Apple's next big macOS update is coming this fall, the company announced at its developer conference Monday. Apple is improving macOS Sierra, fixing bugs and making existing features and components faster and more reliable. The new version is called High Sierra. From a report: The update includes new features for Safari, with an update that stops autoplaying videos; Mail, with a new split-view mode; and Photos, with improved face detection, editing, and photo printing features. Apple is also bringing the Apple File System to Macs, after adding the technology to iOS in March. Apple is also bringing new virtual reality support to Macs with the Metal 2 framework.

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Next macOS version

[DontBeAMoran]

The next version will allow Macs to connect to the Internet and will be called Sierra On-Line.

Re:Next macOS version

[93 Escort Wagon]

It will come with the game King's Quest pre-installed.

Re:Next macOS version

[enjar]

Leisure Suit Tim In The Land of the Coffee Shop Hipsters?

Remember when...

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Remember when Apple announcements didn't make you want to yawn?

The cool kids are busy playing with GCP these days, so as long you keep cranking out nice laptops to connect to that you'll probably still get a grand or so from me every few years, Apple.

Re:Remember when...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is comparable to the update from Lion to Mountain Lion, or to El Capitan from Yosemite (the park that encompasses El Capitan). Mountain Lion was a great OS due to its stability and the under-the-hood changes. I'd much rather have High Sierra be a stability and deep improvement release like Mountain Lion than a bunch of flashy jewjaws like more Messages Apps (that nobody actually uses).

Hah Mountain what?, what a joke, they started bloating it way back, 10.6 was probably the most stable and complete OS X will ever be - as close to an LTS release model Apple ever got, now it's just a creature of almost pure feature creep and hardware obsoletion... It was nice for a while - a bit of BSD+GNU+POSIX+XNU+ just the right amount of Apple's arrogance and insanity sprinkled on top for some unification, around 10.6 that felt just about right... but now the insanity is taking centre stage and all previous technical advantages within a cushy UI are far outweighed, so back to ugly interfaces so I can regain some control and at least escape the cruft and madness.

Back to the Future

[Chris Mattern]

I guess CD-ROMs will be making a comeback.

High Sierra

[93 Escort Wagon]

Having tried Sierra twice, followed by rolling back to El Capitan twice - I can only hope that High Sierra isn't a steaming pile of horse dung.

However I think suspect they will continue to remove features and call it progress. E.g. Like how they're removing user's ability to have a keychain password which doesn't match the user's login password (per Apple's reply appended to a "won't fix" designation on a bug report submission). I sometimes wonder how much longer we're going to have a terminal.

Re:High Sierra

[sexconker]

What about removing the ability to install tons of applications because of the new system file protection/redirection/whatever bullshit?
Hell, the last time I looked at a Sierra system, I couldn't get the built-in firewall to produce any sort of log.
WTF are they doing?

This bodes well

[alispguru]

Especially for those of us who have fond memories of Snow Leopard. Back in the days when successive OSX releases made the system faster and more responsive, even on the same hardware.

macOS could definitely use a mostly bug-fixes and performance improvements release. Windows is still the champ when it comes to flaky behavior and unintelligible errors, but macOS has been drifting in that direction over the last few releases.

Scrape the weird stuff off of Preview and Mail, and I will strongly consider an iMac Pro.

Re:This bodes well

[Kryptonut]

I can back you up on that. Using Windows 10 at work and at home, and it's rock solid.

To be fair I run OS X El Capitan, and Debian Linux too and they're also rock solid.

In fact....if you're not using obscure hardware or loading your machine up with crap, chances are, you won't have problems. Load a Mac up with similar crap to what some Windows home users do, you'll have stability issues on your Mac too. These days, operating systems themselves are generally alright until you load crapware and dodgy drivers on top of them.

Great! Now we just need computers to run it on.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do I have to run macOS on a Hackintosh to get modern hardware?

Re:Great! Now we just need computers to run it on.

[Kryptonut]

Hey, my 2008 octocore xeon Mac Pro with 32GB RAM & Samsung 850 Evo SSD's apparently isn't good enough to run new versions of macOS either, lol.

Runs Windows 10 great though. And OS X El Capitan when I need it.

High Sierra Format

[tepples]

If anyone doesn't get the joke: High Sierra is also the name of an early version of the ISO 9660 file system used for CDs.

Re:All Apple-related posts for the rest of the day

[Altus]

Its almost as if there were some big event... perhaps even a world wide conference of some kind... that was going on today and regarded apple technology. If only I could find some information about it....

...with an update that stops autoplaying videos.

[DidgetMaster]

While they are at it, how about a browser option that prevents the advertisements from playing at 5x the sound volume of your regular streaming video?