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Re: [News] Microsoft Uses 'Reboot Hell' Against Its Volunteers

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Uses 'Reboot Hell' Against Its Volunteers
  • From: p5000011 <p5000011@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:23:32 +0000 (UTC)
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
  • References: <2634098.SM2lnNV1xd@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: pan 0.120 (Plate of Shrimp)
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:517586
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:51:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Vista betas, RCs will reboot every 2 hours starting June 1
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | 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.
> `----

This bit is priceless:

| The only in-place upgrade route -- one that retains the settings,
| applications, and data as-is -- is from Vista RC1 using a copy of the
| $259 Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade. Users running either Beta 2 or RC2
| can upgrade to Ultimate, but they must do a "clean install," a process
| that overwrites the hard drive and destroys all data on it.

Microsoft's biggest enemy is Microsoft. Vista beta users, why wait for
June 1st? Pay your money and lose your setup today unless you're a RC1
user with $259 to throw away.

Fucking unbelievable.

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