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Windows 7 Users can Procrastinate for 120 Days Before Activating
Just like with Vista, Windows 7 will offer users a 30-day grace period before requiring a product activation. And also like Vista, the grace period can be extended up to 120 days, a Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. To do so, users will have to “reset” the countdown timer with the familiar -rearm trick.
Is Windows 7 the End of Microsoft’s OEM Reign?
Financial struggles tend to put a strain on any relationship, and that’s certainly the case between OEM vendors and Microsoft. Worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2009 declined 5 percent from the second quarter of 2009, and whether fair or not, OEMs tend to put the blame on Microsoft.
Official Windows 7 Upgrade Chart
Looking to make life easier for everyone planning on upgrading to Windows 7, Microsoft this week published a chart detailing which OSes are eligible for an “In-Place Upgrade,” and which ones require a “Custom Install.”
Major Bug Found in Windows 7 RTM Build
For the most part, Windows 7 has been met with considerable praise from those who have given the beta and RC releases a spin, but all those good vibes are in jeopardy following the discovery of a major bug. According to DailyTech, RTM build 7600.16385 suffers from a “massive” memory leak in the frequently used chkdsk.exe application.
Staggered Windows 7 RTM Schedule has OEMs System Builders Behind Schedule
According to news and rumor site DigiTimes, Taiwan-based OEM PC makers are still waiting on Windows 7 tools from Microsoft as well as final validation tests from independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs and IHVs), putting them behind schedule. Previously, OEMs had hoped to roll out PCs with Windows 7 by the middle of this month, but are now shooting for September.
A Million Simultaneous Linux Kernels Offer Insight into Botnets
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore have setup a supercomputing cluster of over 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They did so in hopes of better understanding how botnets operate.
