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Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned
CWmike writes with a warning that free preview copies of Windows 7 in the wild will start nagging users to pay up in a couple of weeks until ultimately shutting down the PC altogether in a month. "Microsoft unveiled the schedule for Windows 7 Release Candidate's retirement in May 2009, when it issued the early look to the public. At the time, it said Windows 7 RC would expire June 1, 2010. Before that date, however, users are to receive warnings of the impending end. Starting on Feb. 15, Windows 7 RC will display notices every few hours that the machine will periodically shut down beginning on March 1. As of March 1, PCs running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours. Those shutdowns will come without warning."
BFD. You didn't pay for it, and it's Microsoft. What do you expect?
Uh, it's going to notify you... ...that's warning.
This should not be a surprise to anyone. Why is this news?
Nice post there: Completely devoid of any bias towards Microsoft/Windows...
Ok, let me turn off my sarcasm-mode first.
So why the negative article about this? All the users knew beforehand that the free trial would end one day: Saying that it's "nagging" the user to pay up, is nothing more than using some fine choice of words to make it look bad on Microsoft.
Seriously, there's lots of other stuff that you can slack MS for, and you have to do it for this?
Also, you got to love the 'it will shutdown without a warning'... but it warns you from the 15th of February...
Next up: Adobe nags the users after one month of using their trial software. Oh, the horror!
When you shoot a mime, do you use a silencer?
Hey, it's our M$ bashing article of the day, I've been waiting all day for a nice 'M$' bash post full of venom and vitriole, please don't rain on the parade! LOL M$ SUX!
This space for rent.
What service does this auto shutting down reside in and how do we disable it?
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
> Windows is a commercial product.
Exactly right. Bootleg Windows is the #1 competition to Linux. So if ya want to bring about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" helping Microsoft turn the screws on unlicensed installs is probably the most productive thing a non-coder can do. Especially outside the US.
Democrat delenda est
But I haven't finished bashing Apple yet!
NOTE: Since multitasking is disabled in iPhone/iPad, I can only bash one evil empire at a time.
What a truly lame story. The biggest flaw with the moderation system is that I can't use my mod points to moderate on the actual stories as well as the comments!
and random restarts of Windows 7 was my idea!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck