Users must buy the OS by March 1, 2010 or face no-warning reboots
What Microsoft gives, it takes away.
With the launch of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) yesterday, anyone can get their hands on a copy of the final public preview and, according to Microsoft, use it until Aug. 1, 2010, when the RC expires. But most users won't want to use it for the entire 13 months Microsoft has allotted.
"For the RC, bi-hourly shutdowns will begin March 1, 2010," said spokesman Brandon LeBlanc in just one of several warnings yesterday that Microsoft gave RC users of an earlier deadline.
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What Microsoft gives, it takes away.
With the launch of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) yesterday, anyone can get their hands on a copy of the final public preview and, according to Microsoft, use it until Aug. 1, 2010, when the RC expires. But most users won't want to use it for the entire 13 months Microsoft has allotted.
"For the RC, bi-hourly shutdowns will begin March 1, 2010," said spokesman Brandon LeBlanc in just one of several warnings yesterday that Microsoft gave RC users of an earlier deadline.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132609
