Apple to launch mac osx 10.8 by 2013

Apple is already testing a new version of its desktop operating system.

 Apple rumor blogs MacRumors and 9to5Mac say that they have seen a steady increase in the number of visits to their site by computers running Mac OS X 10.8. The blogs said that the computers running the operating system started accessing their sites in August. The people using the operating system appear to be Apple employees, since the site requests originate from the company's headquarters and surrounding areas.

Apple is working on a follow-up to its desktop operating system, the timeline appears to make some sense. As MacRumors points out, Apple typically launches new versions of its operating system every other year, and based on Web logs, visits from computers running Lion first started hitting its site in late 2009, seeming to indicate that testing starts nearly two years before the software's launch.

Assuming Apple keeps the same schedule, the company is testing its operating system now for an  2013 launch.

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