Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Announced!

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You read that right! Mountain Lion, Apple's newest desktop OS has been announced. There is also a Developer Preview available to Apple Developers. So what is new in this Operating System? Well here is a brief overview:
"Messages replaces the old iChat app and will enable Mac users to send text and multimedia messages to other Mac users as well as to people with iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch. The messaging system uses Web data rather than text messages from a phone plan and expands the free messaging service in a way that will contribute to the growing alternatives to text messaging plans offered by telecommunications companies."The new Messages app, which is available to Lion users today as a beta download, will support online chat services such as AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk, just as iChat does.Reminders and Notes use iCloud to sync across Macs and iOS devices to track to-do lists and notes taken in the apps, and in Mountain Lion they look and work the same as they do on iPhones and iPads.Game Center, too, works exactly the same way on a Mac as it does on iOS devices, enabling users to see what games their friends are playing on Apple gadgets and to play some multiplayer games on a Mac with friends who are playing on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Notification Center maintains the style of its iOS counterpart, but the OS X version is built for a desktop screen, with notification pop-ups appearing in the top right corner of a user's screen when an alert comes from apps such as Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and third-party apps that tap into Apple's developer API. A new two-finger swipe from right to left across a Mac trackpad reveals a list of unseen notifications. To take the Notification Center off the screen, a users need to perform two-finger swipe from left to right on a trackpad or click on any of the notifications, which will take them to the corresponding app.Apple has taken the Twitter integration found in iOS into OS X, with the ability to share to Twitter from Safari, Quick Look, Photo Booth, Preview and third-party apps that take advantage of the feature in Apple's API. Videos can also be shared in OS X Lion from QuickTime to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo.One of the more useful additions to Mountain Lion is AirPlay Mirroring, which, just as an iPad can do, can "wirelessly send a secure 720p video stream of what's on your Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV." Apple TV is Apple's $99 set-top box that streams video from Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo and iTunes to television sets.On the security side, Mountain Lion is adding a new feature called Gatekeeper, which enables users to define what apps can and cannot run on their computers based on where they purchased from or who built them." (Excerpt from LA Times) 
So do you think that this will be a worthy upgrade? Tell me in the comments below!