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Old 1st July, 2009, 04:29 PM
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Windows 7 Beta Kill Switch Activated

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Wednesday, 01 July 2009

The trial version of Microsoft's next operating system has entered its expiration phase.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
July 1, 2009 08:12 AM

Microsoft on Wednesday started the expiration process for the beta version of its Windows 7 operating system.Beginning today, users that are still running the trial version of the company's next OS will see it shut down every two hours. [Front page...]
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Old 1st July, 2009, 04:32 PM
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Wink

Doesn't effect me as I moved on to the next W7 build that's good till March 1st 2010.

Who would want to stick with the beta anyways as it had a lot of bugs & glitches in it that the RC fixed...
I supposed it would effect those that were just too lazy to do another clean install.
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