Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates 414
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.""
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
I Just changed my system clock to see what would happ
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
about 4 seconds... 3... 2... 1....
Hurry! It's shutting me down!
Upgraded (Score:3, Funny)
Is anyone else besides me worried... (Score:4, Funny)
Been there, done that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Um... (Score:5, Funny)
I Just changed my system clock to see what would happ
Well? What happened? You stopped in the middle of typing like you were talking about Candlejack or somethi
That's OK (Score:4, Funny)
This might have saved my company a headache (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
You really must be new around here... ;-)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Upgraded (Score:3, Funny)
It would be awesome if Apple made an ad mentioning that since Microsoft users are so used to random crashes they made it a feature in their new release.
Re:Upgraded (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
Hurray! (Score:5, Funny)
about 4 seconds...
3... 2... 1....
Hurray! It's shutting me down!
Fixed that for you.
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
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. ;)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Just the first step (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:1, Funny)
So, they introduced Crippy, your upgrade assistant?..
Re:Is anyone else besides me worried... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually not as far fetched as that. VMware just had an incident exactly like this with their ESX product. They accidentally left a time bomb from beta testing in their production release. They have since ceased putting time bombs in their beta products because of this.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/vmware_apologises_12_august_code/ [theregister.co.uk]
Re:Crackfix please (Score:5, Funny)
*ducks*
Auto-Maintainence (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Crackfix please (Score:4, Funny)
Pssh, Microsoft takes backward compatibility very seriously. For instance, the virus on this disk I have in my USB floppy drive works ju
Re:Crackfix please (Score:3, Funny)
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!
You're not alone (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure there's an anatomical comment in there, but I'm not gonna go there...
Neither are the rest of us /.ers :(
Re:Crackfix please (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently it can hit the submit button and is very infecti
Re:Crackfix please (Score:4, Funny)
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...