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16 Feb 2010 10:32

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Tech: Windows 7 RC stragglers: Microsoft goes from awesome to mean

  • 1st Microsoft offers pre-release copies (ooh) of Windows 7 to users for free.
  • 2nd They then release Windows 7. It’s a huge hit for the company, their biggest in years.
  • 3rd Some people are still using the release candidate. This won’t do! We must stop them!
  • 4th Microsoft will start rebooting their computers automatically soon. That’s evil!
  • 5th MS will then change their backgrounds and call them bad names. source
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30 Apr 2009 10:20

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Tech: Want to try Windows 7 for a year? You can, cheap skate.

  • The release candidate, out May 5, won’t expire until June 2010. Microsoft, on the brink of releasing a make-or-break version of Windows, is making the pre-retail release candidate free to use for over a year. “It’s available to as many people who see fit to use it, although we wouldn’t recommend it to just your average user,” said John Curran, director of the Windows Client Group. Does it work on a 386, John? source
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