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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?

Via [a href="http://TUAW.com" title="TUAW">TUAW]

In this Appletell video, Adam shows you how to run any version of the Classic Mac OS (from System 1.1 all the way to 7.5) on an Intel or PowerPC Mac OS X-running Mac. It has never been difficult, but there is no easy to find place that teaches you how to do it, beginning to end. In this video, Adam will get you from start to finish emulating any Classic Mac System Software.

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Microsoft Software Test Engineer and blogger Hilton Locke said this week that the Windows Vista successor, Windows 7 (codenamed “Vienna") will include new multi-touch features.

“I will say that if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7,” said Hilton Locke, a test engineer on the Tablet PC effort. “Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales.”

Too bad they can’t… And too bad that while Apple has iPhone out now, and will most likely be doing much more with Multi-Touch, there is no chance of Windows 7 even hitting shelves before 2010. Whether or not Windows 7 will “blow away” Apple’s current iPhone product, there is no way Apple will still be selling the same iPhone in 2 years.

(And who wants to put money down for a delay of Windows 7?) If Microsoft is attempting to “blow away” competition by taking a 2 year old product one step further, it means that they will be even farther behind then if they would just think of something themselves.

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