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"The presence of Macs running OS X 10.9, Apple's next-generation operating system, continues to expand, potentially hinting that a public unveiling could occur soon.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/osx-130201.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"131\" alt=\"OS X 10.9\" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nIt was on February 16 of &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/16/apple_unveils_mac_os_x_108_mountain_lion_coming_this_summer\"&amp;gt;last year&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; that Apple, for the first time, announced OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Now, nearly a year later, there is evidence that the company is hard at work testing the next version of its Mac operating system.\r\n\r\nTraffic logs for &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;AppleInsider&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; show that visits from machines claiming to be running an unannounced OS X 10.9 spiked in the month of January.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;q class=\"left\"&amp;gt;But while October visits from OS X 10.9 were around three dozen total, the number swelled into the thousands  in the just-concluded month of January.&amp;lt;/q&amp;gt;Evidence of Apple testing OS X 10.9 first surfaced late &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/06/macs-running-apples-unannounced-os-x-109-appear-online\"&amp;gt;last year&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, when &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;AppleInsider&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; tracked a handful of visits from machines running the next-generation operating system in the month of October. But while October visits from OS X 10.9 were around three dozen total, the number swelled into the thousands  in the just-concluded month of January.\r\n\r\nFor the last couple of years, Apple has been upgrading OS X on an annual basis. Last year, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion launched on the Mac App Store in July, while OS X 10.7 Lion launched in July of 2011.\r\n\r\nIf Apple keeps to the same schedule this year, the company could formally unveil OS X 10.9 in the coming weeks, giving developers time to prepare for a summer 2013 launch of its next Mac operating system."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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