Windows 7 Beta Expiration Approaching

Published on May 26, 2009 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Over the weekend, some of you may have received an email from us reminding you that the Windows 7 Beta expires on August 1^st, 2009. In that email, we ask that if you are still on the Windows 7 Beta that you should consider moving to a “non-expired” copy of Windows such as the Windows 7 RC or Windows Vista because bi-hourly shutdowns will begin June 1st.

The Windows 7 Beta does expire on August 1st, 2009; unfortunately the date for when bi-hourly shutdowns will begin for the Windows 7 Beta was incorrect however.

Bi-hourly shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta will begin July 1st, 2009 as we’ve stated both here in this blog post on May 5th and also in the Windows 7 RC FAQ.

Some people seem to have been confused by this. This applies to the pre-RC releases, not the actual RC release. If you haven’t downloaded the Windows 7 RC release, head over and do so now.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Comments

landisaurus

on May 26, 2009

yeah, I need to get on that. I've cleared off my main partitition to reinstall the RC, but haven't gotten aronud to doing it (obviously the bi-hourly shutdowns would make me get off my lazy bum, but I've got a month and a half left)

I just hope you won't need to reinstall between this RC and the not-pre-release RC

hudsonave

on May 27, 2009

Has anyone tried it out yet?

I'm wondering how much better it is than Vista performance wise to see if I want to try it.

JSW_Ballz

on May 27, 2009

I'm comparing it to XP since I don't have a Vista machine, but I really like it. There seem to be a few issues occasionally, but they're mostly when I start up games because no one supports Win7 yet. It does seem fast and most of the features that have changed are rather intuitive (definatly a heck of a lot better than Office 2007).

Performance seems pretty good. It uses a good bit of ram (again, compared to XP), but it seems to reduce the usage when there's something large like a game going on.

messiah1

on May 27, 2009

Bi-hourly shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta will begin July 1st, 2009 as we’ve stated both here in this blog post on May 5th and also in the Windows 7 RC FAQ.

Some people seem to have been confused by this. This applies to the pre-RC releases, not the actual RC release.

However, the RC release will start it's bi-hourly shutdown on March 1 2010, as stated on the Microsoft site.

Watch the calendar. 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. (Learn more about installing Windows.)

messiah1

on May 27, 2009

Has anyone tried it out yet?

I'm wondering how much better it is than Vista performance wise to see if I want to try it.

In comparison to Vista, ime, it's much faster. The install was faster (22 minutes), it boots from shutoff state faster...it's just faster. This is on a core 2 duo with 4 gigs ram. I like it. I can't wait until retail.

LightStar

on May 27, 2009

Best OS they have put out yet!

Quicksilver007

on May 27, 2009

For me it's waaay faster!

Best OS they have put out yet!

The best yet, absolutely!

bourneaka

on May 27, 2009

oh yea its Very fast. Best OS ever made. puts all the other windows OS to shame.

TurdFergus0n

on Jun 02, 2009

downloading the 7100 RC build now (64 bit). Probably gonna do a clean format and use it as my main OS. I just hope i dont run into driver problems with my auzentech forte x-fi sound card since it uses some of creatives drivers.

Kryss

on Jun 05, 2009

Heinekus I wouldn't reccomend a clean format as I personally had some issues with drivers/utilities for my motherboard (I can't get my sound ports to work properly). If you can partition your drive and install on a partition first that's what I'd do and then once it's running smoothly you could format the partion the other OS is on. But dual booting is easy and you can easily select the parameters of the boot setup from windows 7 (selecting the default OS and the time given to select the OS you want).

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