{"id":10356,"date":"2010-02-04T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:36:12","slug":"windows-7-release-candidate-deadlines-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10356","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Release Candidate Deadlines Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 release candidates will soon start to <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/windows7\/archive\/2010\/02\/01\/important-reminder-regarding-expiration-of-the-windows-7-rc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">deliberately misbehave<\/a>.&#160; On March 1st 2010 you will see them shutdown every 2 hours.&#160; On June 1st 2010 they will start the \u201cThis copy of Windows is not genuine\u201d experience.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft urges you to do a clean installation of Windows 7.&#160; Let\u2019s face it, will you really want to go back to Vista or Windows XP?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve still got a laptop running the RC.&#160; It was used while writing the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mastering-Windows-Server-2008-R2\/dp\/0470532866%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0470532866\" target=\"_blank\">Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>.&#160; It was also used for another project that is ending now so I guess I will rebuild it when I get a chance.&#160; Of course, I will be going with Windows 7 Ultimate.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b3af3df5-f4db-42e4-a9ad-cc4e659d9630\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 release candidates will soon start to deliberately misbehave.&#160; On March 1st 2010 you will see them shutdown every 2 hours.&#160; On June 1st 2010 they will start the \u201cThis copy of Windows is not genuine\u201d experience. Microsoft urges you to do a clean installation of Windows 7.&#160; Let\u2019s face it, will you really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 7 Release Candidate Deadlines Coming Soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}