Instructions for Upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to RC
Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 blog has instructions for upgrading from Windows 7 Beta to the upcoming RC.
Delivering a quality upgrade experience
The primary advice is to reinstall Vista and then upgrade to Windows 7 RC. Um, ack! My Asus Eee PC 1000HA came with XP. So, their primary advice is a no-go for me. And, here's their slightly less ugly alternative instructions.:
Here’s what you can do to bypass the check for pre-release upgrade IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO:
- Download the ISO as you did previously and burn the ISO to a DVD.
- Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build).
- Browse to the sources directory.
- Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
- Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7100 to 7000.
- Save the file in place with the same name.
- Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed.
Time Warner Cable Data Metering: Tax for iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Video Podcast Users
DSLReports.com digs into Time Warner COO Landel Hobbs comments on the coming 100GB cable data cap for Time Warner customers...
Time Warner COO: Metered Billing Is What Consumers Want
I agree with the article's author (Karl Bode) about the purpose of this data cap plan. IMHO it is just a tax on people who use and who will use high bandwidth services such as iTunes (buying or renting HD TV shows and movies), Hulu, Netflix and even casual video podcast fans who may not notice how many gigabytes they download per month viewing the favorite (and free) video podcasts.
And, if you, like me, are an MSDN subscriber who chose the download route, this may be an incentive for us to switch back to having DVDs of software releases shipped to us instead of downloading them. This may even kill the software downloading business altogether.
Unfortunately, wireless broadband doesn't provide any threat or incentive since they have 5GB caps on their services.