Filed under: OS Updates, Microsoft
Beta copies of Windows Vista set to expire
If you're running a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you might want to upgrade by May 31st. Anyone running Vista Beta 2 RC1 or RC2 will begin to receive warnings in a few weeks telling you that your operating system installation is about to expire.If you don't upgrade, you could wind up losing data stored on your computer. Here's what happens if you decide to ignore the warnings:
- You'll be able to logon for 2 hours in order to retrieve your data, but after 2 hours your computer will automatically reboot without giving you the opportunity to save your work.
- Come August 28th, even these 2 hour logon sessions will be disabled
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
