[OSX-Users] OS X Mountain Lion (Gold Master) released

[Jules Field]

Folks,

The waiting is basically over.
Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.0) has reached Gold Master status.

This means that Apple still have the right to change it before it is 
released for download by the general public, but it's very rare that 
anyone does change it due to the astronomical cost of doing so. They 
start building it into new hardware coming off the production line 
today, so any changes have to be applied to new Macs that are already in 
their shrink-wrap on their way to the Apple Stores and distribution 
centres around the world.

So if you want to download it, you can get it from
     cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software
then look in the images/apple/Mountain Lion directory.
Copy the Gold Master installer application to your /Applications folder 
and run it. It will upgrade your Mac and reboot again when it's finished.

Note: If you have installed the beta release of "Messages" at any time, 
uninstall this and restart *before* you start installing Mountain Lion. 
The option to uninstall it is in the "Messages" menu of the Messages 
application.

Jules

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