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Mac OS X 10.7 Appearing in Web Logs, Dev Release at WWDC?

Saturday January 23, 2010 2:20 pm PST by Arnold Kim
As we reported earlier, it's no surprise that Apple is actively working on Mac OS X 10.7. Bug reports from the early builds were spotted in November and as early as December Mac OS X 10.7 signatures appeared in web logs from Apple-owned IP addresses. More spottings have been since reported, and we've found Mac OS X 10.7 signatures in our own web logs with increasing frequency since October.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.7.1 (KHTM
L, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/532.7.3

Apple has said nothing of the next major version of Mac OS X, though John Gruber had said he had heard that Mac OS X 10.7 would be ready for developer release by WWDC this June.

Rumored features that never made it into Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard such as the Marble interface revamp may make their way into 10.7.
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greg400
27 months ago
Bring on the Lion.
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Charliekid21
27 months ago
Wow much sooner than I expected.
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wrldwzrd89
27 months ago
Not TOO surprising that 10.7 work is already underway. However, word of it usually doesn't leak this early.
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appleguy123
27 months ago
Snow Leopard was less than thrilling for me so I hope 10.7 brings something amazing to the table!
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Prof.
27 months ago
Hopefully it will be compatible with my late 2007 MacBook. If not... le sigh.
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mathcolo
27 months ago
I cannot wait for this. I love software and I'm enthusiastic about every Mac OS X release.

Do we think that we might see 10.7 released in Spring 2011?
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doctoree
27 months ago

Snow Leopard was less than thrilling for me so I hope 10.7 brings something amazing to the table!


It was probably less than trhilling for most of us... Just wait until the wrath of Open CL unfolds...
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Sbrocket
27 months ago
Funny thing about user agent strings - you can change them sooo easily. I would be completely unsurprised if this was just some bored rumor monger going around with a modified user agent string to set off rumors.
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opeter
27 months ago
I have only some wishes:

- A new file system would be nice (ZFS?)
- I would like, if I could change the overall font size and windows color
- build in file overwrite/merge, similar to Windows/Linux
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zedsdead
27 months ago
Let's hope that feature number #1 is that the OS is rock solid and stable. We haven't had this feature since panther and tiger. Both Leopards brought far too many crashes and beach balls to the party.
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