Editing Mac OS 8 (section)

==Mac OS 8.0==
Developed with the [[codename]] "Tempo", Mac OS 8.0 was announced on July 22, 1997,<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 22, 1997 |title=Apple Introduces Mac OS 8--Most Significant Macintosh Operating System Release Since 1984 |url=http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970722.pr.rel.macos8.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990220040108/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970722.pr.rel.macos8.html |archive-date=February 20, 1999 |access-date=October 2, 2019 |publisher=Apple}}</ref> and released on July 26. The early beta releases of the product which were circulated to developers and Apple internal audiences, were branded as Mac OS 7.7, superseding the then-current release, Mac OS 7.6. The software was renamed Mac OS 8 before final release.

Major changes in this version included the [[Appearance Manager|Platinum theme]], a Finder which was PowerPC-native and multithreaded, and greater customization of the [[user interface]].

Other features introduced in Mac OS 8.0 include the following:<ref name="Mac OS 8.0 Features">{{Cite book |last=Pogue |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/mac_Macworld_Mac_Secrets_5th_Edition_1999 |title=MacWorld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition |last2=Schorr |first2=Joseph |publisher=IDG |year=1999 |isbn=9780764540400 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/mac_Macworld_Mac_Secrets_5th_Edition_1999/page/n353 318]–319}}</ref>

*Customization of system fonts and increased use of the user-set accent color.
*Pop-up [[context menu]]s, accessed via ctrl-click with a one-button mouse.
*Pop-up (or tabbed) windows in the Finder.
*Spring-loaded folders.
*Live scrolling.
*WindowShade widget in window titlebars.
*Multithreaded [[Finder (software)|Finder]] — file copy operations run in a separate thread and don't block the Finder UI.
*Redesigned color picker.
*Desktop Pictures control panel, allowing photographs to be set as the desktop background; not only tiled patterns.
*Simple Finder, an option which reduces Finder menus to basic operations, to avoid overwhelming new users.
*Relocation of the 'Help' menu from an icon at the right end of the menu bar to a standard textual menu positioned after the application's menus.
*A faster Apple Guide, featuring [[HTML]] help pages.
*Native support of [[Apple Filing Protocol]] over IP.
*Performance improvements to [[virtual memory]], AppleScript execution and system startup times.
*Faster desktop rebuilding.