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Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates
nk497 writes "The release candidate for Microsoft Windows 7 will expire June 2010, and the software giant will let users know they need to pay to upgrade by shutting down the system every two hours for three months. According to Microsoft: "The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. You'll also need to install the programs and data that you want to use.""
I Just changed my system clock to see what would happ
about 4 seconds... 3... 2... 1....
Hurry! It's shutting me down!
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
I seriously doubt it shuts down every two hours. No Windows system is stable that long at a time.
My webcomic
That this will wind up in the actual release in some form or another by mistake...it's only so easy to track zillions of lines of code after all.
...in bed
It sounds like a fully licensed version of Win95.
I hope that's all it does!
When I installed Vista on a used laptop it didn't recognize the Vista CD Key on the laptop and wouldn't let me log in to the system. Only thing it would display is "YOUR KEY IS INVALID. PLEASE ENTER A VALID KEY OR CALL... (etc)". Safe mode didn't work either.
I ended up calling the manufacture and paying $30 for restore DVDs, but it put the laptop completely out of commission for a week.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
It won't be much of a pain due to the blindingly fast Windows 7 boot time, right?
We had one customer several years ago who complained that our product stopped working all of the sudden. The customer yelled at us and threatened to sue us out of existence.
We looked into his problem anf it turns out he used an evaluation copy of Windows 2000 and the license expired on him.
It was a bank in LA. I forget the name. The bastards are probrably collecting TARP funds.
You really must be new around here... ;-)
It's not "free as in beer." It's "free as in drugs" as in "the first hit is always free."
Yeah it's the same with sex, and then you get married.
I'm just excited to hear that Microsoft is giving out free copies of their OS so that people who write malware won't have to buy a copy to port their software to the new platform.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Mod parent up =) I appears he has experience in the trenches
about 4 seconds...
3... 2... 1....
Hurray! It's shutting me down!
Fixed that for you.
I'm sure there's an anatomical comment in there, but I'm not gonna go there...
Actually, after escaping from ten years of purgatory, I guess I already did. ;)
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What planet are you from?
With sex, it's "pay out the nose for it one way or another", then you get married, and it becomes "not at any price except for purposes of procreation and then you better be able to perform on-demand at the whim of the Fertility Gods as intimated by the Basal Thermometer Oracle and meanwhile all you can think of is a crying infant and the fact that you wore tight jeans yesterday and whether you remembered to backup your systems and then you have to go see a urologist because of your 'performance issues'".
Or so I've heard.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
If that doesn't stop you, it reverts to Windows ME.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
So, they introduced Crippy, your upgrade assistant?..
What's the problem? If it shuts down at predictable intervals, it's a big improvement...
*ducks*
On my laptop that runs Vista, I already have to restart every 2 hours. But with Win7, If I don't pay, they will do it for me? Sign me up.
Pssh, Microsoft takes backward compatibility very seriously. For instance, the virus on this disk I have in my USB floppy drive works ju
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
I can see it now. The New Mac vs. PC commercials.
Hi, I'm a Mac. I automatically back myself up every 2 hours.
Hi, I'm a PC. I reboot myself every 2 hours to give you the best performance that you deserve!
Or another MS commercial:
Windows 7 - The most stable Windows yet. Runs for 2 hours without shutting down! And to further your productivity, we've automated the shutdown to help you drive productivity and grow your business!
I'm sure there's an anatomical comment in there, but I'm not gonna go there...
Neither are the rest of us /.ers :(
Apparently it can hit the submit button and is very infecti
What's funny is that somebody down-modded my post (It quickly went back up to 5 again). I'm assuming the down-modder was one of those happily married people that you hear about on TV.
Or maybe it's just your wife...