He said the OS has 300 new features and demoed 10, including a new organisational system for the desktop called Stacks and a new folder system which lets users browse files and applications visually, just as music lovers can browse album covers in iTunes.

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In the new solution, a new mechanism was constructed to configure a folder to protect and store personal data.

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Whenever new files are added, or changes are made to an existing file within the Active Copy enabled folder, these files are automatically copied to a chosen destination folder.

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What is new is a remarkably straight-forward sharing tool that creates a unique, private URL for any file or folder.

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