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Apple Offers Free Snow Leopard Update to MobileMe Users to Ease Transition to iCloud

Apple's iCloud service will replace MobileMe in June, but only users running OS X 10.7, also known as Lion, will have access to the cloud-based storage. As many MobileMe users are still running an older OS, without an upgrade they may be left behind. Hence, to ease the transition to the iCloud, Apple is giving away free DVDs of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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