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05-01-2009, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 32,125
|  Windows 7 Free For One Year
Windows 7 Free For One Year
If you have avoided using a betas and release candidate software because of short trial periods or limited functionality, toss those worries aside and give Windows 7 RC1 a try for a year. Yup, on Cinco de Mayo you’ll be able to try Windows 7 RC1 until June 1, 2010. Nice. Microsoft Corp. will let users run Windows 7 RC1 for more than a year, giving them free use of the new operating system for a significantly longer time than it did Vista's previews. Windows 7 RC, slated for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers Thursday and by the general public on May 5, doesn't expire until June 1, 2010, 13 months from Friday, Microsoft confirmed Thursday.
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05-01-2009, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Wayne, IN Posts: 2,150
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I can't wait! Only 4 more days until I can add it to my desktop and enjoy for a year!  | 
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05-02-2009, 02:54 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 588
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I wonder whether it will be a pain to get a year's worth. I wonder if it will just expire in June 2010 or if we'll have to do something to keep resetting it until then.
Either way, that's pretty awesome. If I can use it for a year, I might give in and dual boot.
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05-02-2009, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 6,057
| Re: Windows 7 Free For One Year
Should be just a valid copy for a year, since its a Release Candidate. As long as you have one of the valid serials you should be fine.
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05-02-2009, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 6,725
| Re: Windows 7 Free For One Year
shoot and I just got vista x64.
Well I need to get better with vista anyways.
Dual boot it is.
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05-02-2009, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 6,057
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Originally Posted by Hefemeister  shoot and I just got vista x64.
Well I need to get better with vista anyways.
Dual boot it is. | That's all I do, heh.
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05-03-2009, 09:59 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 588
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I read that starting March 1, 2010, the RC will begin bi-hourly shutdowns. So it's not actually the full 13 months without having to deal with that.
Still, 10 months is pretty good.
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05-03-2009, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,662
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Originally Posted by forrestcupp I read that starting March 1, 2010, the RC will begin bi-hourly shutdowns. So it's not actually the full 13 months without having to deal with that.
Still, 10 months is pretty good. | Yes this is true. As of June First it will not even accept the serial anymore. At that point it will be DOA.
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05-04-2009, 01:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 5,889
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I might stick this on my other box.
I wonder if this means for the next 12 months I am going to have little turdlettes coming into my computer shop behaving like they are so cool just because they are running windows 7 before the rest of the world.
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05-04-2009, 01:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,662
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I wouldnt count on it. M$ Plans on having this out by the Holiday Season. So they wont be that cool. 
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