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Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year
Barence writes "Microsoft is effectively giving away Windows 7 free for a year with the launch of the Release Candidate. The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and will go on unlimited, general release on 5 May. The software will not expire until 1 June 2010, giving testers more than a year's free access to Windows 7. 'It's available to as many people who see fit to use it, although we wouldn't recommend it to just your average user,' John Curran, director of the Windows Client Group told PC Pro. 'We'd very strongly encourage anyone on the beta to move to the Release Candidate.'"
Free seems to me to still be too expensive to deal with M$ latest bug laden release (at least up until the first or second serious patch comes along). I didn't move from 98 to XP for my machine until SP1 came out. I wonder if they'd be willing to pay me to live through their forced release growing pains.
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You counter his argument that it is not free by pointing out it is MERELY 250 bucks a year...
Who would have thought FREE would become such a complex concept to some people.
Free == 0 bucks. No money. Nada. Zip. Zero.
If MSDN required a postal stamp it would NOT be free.
Mind you, I am not sure this RC requires a subscription in any case so you might both be blowing smoke.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
the last time i tried winxp (i doubt 7 will be any nicer) i made a ntfs disk partition with cfdisk while running linux on the first primary partition (/dev/sda1) 20 gigs, i rebooted with the XP disk, and it wanted to format the ntfs partition (/dev/sda1) but when i finished the installation and booted XP it completely wiped every partition on that disk which is a 500 gig disk with several partitions & another OS & lots of data on it all gone, i took that XP disk and run it through a shredder and wiped XP off that disk and restored my partitions & OS from my backup drive, fuck microsoft and the OS they rode in on if they can not play nicely with other OSs i dont want anything to do with them anymore...
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So? Good for them, right?
You just got troll'd!
I thought I read that they were going to give free upgrades to people who already had Vista... since you know it's really a little more than a glorified service pack.
Bloggers talking about "Snow Leopard" = Popularity and Excitement
Bloggers talking about Win7 = Hype
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm not sure you can actually refer to this as an "upgrade".
How do you equate getting an operating system that's already installed on your new computer and downloading a beta of an OS?
You are welcome on my lawn.