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There’s been talk lately about what Apple’s operating system will be like in the future, and some evidence that Apple is already working on it. Will it be entirely multi-touch? What will it be called? If this next rumor is to be true, we might be seeing a sample of what’s to come sooner than we think. TUAW has reported that the next release of the operating system could be debuted by Apple at the WWDC in just five day’s time, and then seeded to developers. They also say the next release could be dropping support for PPC based Macs, and that it could be ready for release in January 2009.

Hold your horses, though, because they also say that a source has told them that Apple is focusing solely on “stability and security” in their next OS, I guess we’ll have to wait until OS 11 to see any groundbreaking features, then (multi-touch here we come).

If the next OS really does leave behind its support for PPC based Macs, this could come as quite a blow to those still using them. Apple has had excellent backwards-compatibility in their previous operating systems (take Leopard, for example), but we all knew there would come a point when they would no longer support PowerPC. Perhaps not this soon? And is this goodbye to universal applications then?

One more question; what will Apple name the new OS?

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