<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Good Afternoon,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">IS&T is pleased to announce full support for Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.2 and higher. Lion is the eighth major revision of Apple’s desktop operating system.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Lion includes many new features that enhance functionality for end users. Several of these enhancements change OS X behaviors present in Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6). Among the most notable for the MIT community are changes to <a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/AwCCAw"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">Kerberos</span></a>, <a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/BAAZAg"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">wired DHCP</span></a>, and user navigation. A full list of new features can be found on <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">Apple’s website</span></a><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The minimum system requirements to run OS X Lion are as follows: </font></div><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor </font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2GB of memory </font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">7GB of available space</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">If upgrading: OS X 10.6.6 or later (10.6.8 recommended) </font></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">IS&T has purchased Lion licenses for MIT faculty and staff for use on MIT-owned equipment. Lion can be downloaded, free of charge, from IS&T’s <a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/macosx/107"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">Available Software website</span></a><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); "><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/CQAJAg">Documentation specific to OS X Lion</a></span> – including <a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/BAAqAg"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">upgrade instructions</span></a> – can be found in the Hermes knowledge base. Users should <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1338"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">run Software Update</span></a> immediately after installing Lion to be updated to 10.7.2.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For assistance with Lion, contact the Help Desk at 617.253.1101 or <a href="mailto:helpdesk@mit.edu"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">helpdesk@mit.edu</span></a>. You can also <a href="http://ist.mit.edu/support#form"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); ">submit a request online</span></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Those using plain-text email can view the formatted announcement in Hermes: <a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/YYC4Aw">http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/YYC4Aw</a> <br><br>Andrew Munchbach<br><i>on behalf of the Software Release Team and IS&T<br></i>- - -<br>Andrew Munchbach<br>Macintosh Platform Coordinator<br>IS&T | Systems Engineering | SWRT<br><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(27, 57, 245); "><a href="%22mai">swrt@mit.edu</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div></body></html>