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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.
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.
It won't be much of a pain due to the blindingly fast Windows 7 boot time, right?
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
What's the problem? If it shuts down at predictable intervals, it's a big improvement...
*ducks*
I'm sure there's an anatomical comment in there, but I'm not gonna go there...
Neither are the rest of us /.ers :(