Apple’s service status for .Mac was updated tonight to include details about MobileMe’s launch. The service, the replacement to .Mac, will offer most current features of .Mac as well as ‘push’ calendar, mail, and contacts support; Apple’s tag line for the product is “Exchange for the rest of us.” .Mac will be shut down at 6 pm pacific time on Wednesday, July 9th and all services (except for .Mac Mail, which will be available on any desktop client, iPhone or iPod touch) will be offline. The MobileMe service will “be available as soon as possible during this maintenance window” and they give 6 pm – 12 am pacific time as the launch timeframe. Current .Mac customers will be automatically upgraded during the MobileMe launch.

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