Official statement from PGP Corporation on Intel-based Mac edition: Beta due this month

We previously reported that the PGP Corporation had made no announcement regarding the potential release of a Universal Binary edition of PGP Desktop, frustrating some users.

The company has now informed MacFixIt that it is indeed working on an Intel-based Mac compatible edition of PGP, to be released at an undisclosed date. A beta version, however, should be released by the end of July.

John Dasher, Director of Product Management for PGP Corporation, told us:

"As more and more people upgrade to Apple's latest Intel-based product offerings, we're seeing more frequent requests for a Universal binary version of PGP Desktop 9.0.

"As you know, PGP Corporation has a long history of multiple platform support with our products. Occasionally, the platform vendors surprise us and ship something early, causing us to briefly fall out of sync.

"While we can't commit to specific release dates, I can convey that PGP Corporation is working without delay to provide compatibility with Apple's Intel-based Mac products in the next major release of PGP Desktop. As per usual, PGP will make beta versions of this software publicly available (later this month)."

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