This morning Apple has pushed out its “Golden Master” version of Mac OS X 10.7, Lion, to developers. Lion was announced back in October of 2010 slated for release “Summer 2011.”
At Apple’s Word Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) it was announced that the new operating system would be release in July. Right on track, Apple has seeded it’s production copy for developers to download and check for compatibility with their applications. OS X Lion is a fairly radical UI change from what most consumers are used to. Lion brings many of the features in Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, and bring them to the desktop. Check back in the coming days for a thorough review as well as my thoughts on Lion.
Edit: The current rumor is that Lion will release on 7/14 via the Mac App Store. It was also a 14 day period to the 10.6 (Snow Leopard) release in 2009 — GM for 10.6 was released on 8/14 and went on sale on 8/28.