How saving changed in Lion - Infographic

I'm a software configuration management engineer. It's my job to understand version control. But explaining it to non-techies is nigh impossible, and Apple wants everyone to learn how it works. I love OSX, Apple, but this bites and was never needed. You're putting threads on a nail, and we don't need them. If we want version control, there are a half-dozen free and dozens of paid apps that do it better.

And TUAW, these graphics are almost illegible at this resolution, even with my glasses on. Try again.

I'm keeping my internal jury out on this until I have more experience working with the new system. Right now I'm still blundering around whenever I edit something in Pages, but I'll eventually wrap my head around it. At that point I'll finally be qualified to decide whether it's an effective system or not.

I wonder how new users feel using it, somebody without years of ingrained habits... Apple is pretty good at taking the long view, so it may well be here to stay if it truly is easier for new users to work with.

This new versioning BS is a real show stopper for me. Is there any way to turn the damn thing off?

This isn't correct.

"Revert to saved" Doesn't bring back the most recent version, it shows a list of previous versions...

I find this to be a very confusing visualization of the save process before and after Lion. I find it oddly fitting though, because Lion's save process seems very convoluted and unclear to me as well for anything other than basic edits on a single copy of a file.

I know this is off topic, but this post has got to be the worst implementation of showing images I have seen on any website since about 2003. What on earth are you thinking, TUAW???

@pusta2 No, Photoshop, etc is not impacted by the autosave.... at least not at this point. The application has to support the feature. I don't see Photoshop doing this... that would be a nightmare!

I really liked Lion the first couple of days. But as I get down to serious work I find myself wanting Snow Leopard back. Been trying to give it time but the more I use it the more I think the upgrades or more eye candy and hindrances. There are some good nuggets but just not feeling the efficiency and polish as with Snow Leopard.

Has anyone used Photoshop Elements or Lightroom on Lion? Does Autosave have any impact in these programs? I do not want changes automatically saved to the file

Sorry dude, Lion is just joining the versioning party here.

Look up shadow copy on google, it's been in Windows since Server 2003.