Vista betas, RCs will reboot every 2 hours starting June 1
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| Microsoft Corp. today spelled out exactly how users of Windows Vista
| betas and release candidates can shift to the final code, and warned
| that beginning June 1, preview-equipped PCs will automatically reboot
| every two hours.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9017728&source=rss_news50
Related:
Vista beta testers face software expiration
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| Thanks for the help - now pay up or get lost. Millions of people testing
| beta and release candidate (RC) versions of Windows Vista will find
| their test software expires on June 1 - and Microsoft is not offering
| much help on migrating their systems.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=8519
Microsoft's Xbox rewards caused massive disappointment
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| As a keen gamer who has owned most games consoles known to man, I was an
| Xbox early adopter back in 2002 when the console was launched. So when
| Microsoft said they'd give early adopters lots of extra stuff when
| they reduced their prices - I was happy. Apart from the fact that my
| extras never came and no one at Microsoft wanted to know.
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http://www.seopher.com/articles/microsofts_xbox_rewards_caused_massive_disappointment
Microsoft using early Vista users as guinea pigs?
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| Interesting to read in the International Herald Tribune this week
| about Microsoft hitting a 'crisis of confidence' with its new Vista
| operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| Sounds familiar? Your bet - it's almost an exact re-run of the
| security issues that affected Windows XP in its earliest days.
|
| Microsoft wouldn't be using its Vista users - as it did with XP -
| as guinea pigs, now would it?...
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=646
An open letter to Bill Gates
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| Dear Bill Gates
|
| Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop -- and
| that's when the trouble began.
|
| [...]
|
| But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two
| of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software
| for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here's what takes the
| biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device - even though the
| software for that was created by Microsoft!
|
| So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to
| buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware.
|
| [...]
|
| My conclusion? For all the expensive and much-extended gestation,
| Vista was not ready for commercial release. And, just so you know,
| I've never once had a comparably horrible experience with the
| Google boys.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html
http://tinyurl.com/2tlc8
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