Apple will demonstrate the latest version of its OS in January and will take the opportunity to wrongfoot Microsoft. Apple and its partners have been privately dropping hints to developers that its upcoming release of its Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship earlier than expected – and it will debut two new technologies that promise to speed up software without demanding any changes to the hardware. The first technology, Grand Central, is designed to make better use of the Intel processors that sit inside the current range of Macs.

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