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On the release of 10.7 Lion

Late on Tuesday, as part of their earnings call, Apple announced that its new operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion, would be released on Wednesday during the day.  You may have many questions concerning the release of Lion, upgrade paths, upgrade features, group licensing, and compatibility.  We’ll be working to answer those questions on a case-by-case basis as we go forward during the next few weeks.

There are some impressive new UI features for the new upgrade, including significant support for gestures on the built-in trackpad and magic trackpad accessories. In addition, Lion Server has support for provisioning many features of your company-owned iPads and iPhones and iPods, to allow us to deploy email configurations, applications, and other settings over the air, which means less plugging in and configuring these devices.

Currently, it is our advice that you NOT upgrade to 10.7, pending the results of some compatibility testing that we’ll be doing over the new few weeks.  

As Saleh so correctly said in Raiders of the Lost Ark: ”Asps, very dangerous, you go first, Indy.”

For the last two releases prior to the version that will ship from Apple, I have been running Lion on my day to day workstation, testing various applications and configurations.  There are a few big bugs that were fixed by the Golden Master, but there are still a few bugs that remain.  For those of you working with a Kerio Connect server, we would counsel you to wait until Kerio has updated its server to adapt to the new versions of Mail and ICal that are being released with Lion.

Applications initially built for the PowerPC platform such as Office 2004, any version of QuickBooks prior to 2010 and Quicken 2007 will not run under Lion.  Your applications will need to be upgraded, in some cases incurring costs.  Rosetta, the translator that allowed these applications to run, is no longer included with Lion, and will not be supported.  If you have questions about which applications these may include, you may check the following wiki, which has good information: http://roaringapps.com/ or feel free to ask us.

To sum up: Lion is coming out on Wednesday, but please don’t upgrade right away. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have, and Apple has a good amount of information here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/

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