RTM also expires

[Piet Fourie]

The RTM seems to also have an expiry date of 7.1.2007 and activation period
of 30 days. Wonder then, why all the activity around activation ? Funny.

 

[Guest]

What do you mean, Office 2007 or Vista?

For Office 2007, I don't have any problem if I change the date to Nov next
year.

 

[Michael D]

Maybe you downloaded a trial version.

What do you mean, Office 2007 or Vista?

For Office 2007, I don't have any problem if I change the date to Nov next
year.

 

[Nero]

Vista"RTM", the same one that is all over the net.
Expires on 1/06/07
After that date it will not run/work.
setting the clock/date back will not bypass it.

 

[I.P. Nichols]

Vista"RTM", the same one that is all over the net.
Expires on 1/06/07
After that date it will not run/work.
setting the clock/date back will not bypass it.

Could it be that the real reason folks report it as expiring on Jun/1/07 is
because they "hacked" it and used a beta/RC key to activate it? Not only was
Vista 6000 RTM leaked and by last Friday appeared on many bit torrent site,
but shortly thereafter an activation hack also appeared which allows it to
be activated by using the ProdID keys that Microsoft issued to individuals
for beta and RC testing. Using the hack causes Vista RTM to think it's an
evaluation version and it puts a water mark saying it's build 6000 for
evaluation. Now someone has come up with another hack that removes the
watermark.

Meanwhile back at the ranch us good guys wait for Nov 17th.

Now I ask you, what's a girl to do? ;-)

 

[Nero]

Well for me I have to wait til it's in the stores

Could it be that the real reason folks report it as expiring on Jun/1/07
is because they "hacked" it and used a beta/RC key to activate it? Not
only was Vista 6000 RTM leaked and by last Friday appeared on many bit
torrent site, but shortly thereafter an activation hack also appeared
which allows it to be activated by using the ProdID keys that Microsoft
issued to individuals for beta and RC testing. Using the hack causes Vista
RTM to think it's an evaluation version and it puts a water mark saying
it's build 6000 for evaluation. Now someone has come up with another hack
that removes the watermark.

Meanwhile back at the ranch us good guys wait for Nov 17th.

Now I ask you, what's a girl to do? ;-)

 

[Tom Porterfield]

The RTM seems to also have an expiry date of 7.1.2007 and activation
period of 30 days. Wonder then, why all the activity around activation ?
Funny.

The true RTM version does not expire. If you are using the RTM version that
is on many download sites on the internet, be aware that some of the files
in it have been replaced with beta versions of those files in order for the
beta and RC keys to work during install. As a result, you end up with a
mixed mess of partial RTM and partial beta files in the distribution. So
the fact that it expires when the other evaluation versions expire is not
much of a surprise. You should ask yourself - if it includes beta versions
of some of the core OS files, what other modifications have been made to it?
I can't answer that question as I am not foolish enough to put such a
mismatched messed up conglomeration of OS files on any machine that I care
about. Thanks anyway but I'll wait for the valid RTM release from a
reliable source.

 

[Richard Urban]

You get what you pay for. You paid nothing and look what you got.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Jon Davis]

Could it be that the real reason folks report it as expiring on Jun/1/07
is because they "hacked" it and used a beta/RC key to activate it? Not
only was Vista 6000 RTM leaked and by last Friday appeared on many bit
torrent site, but shortly thereafter an activation hack also appeared
which allows it to be activated by using the ProdID keys that Microsoft
issued to individuals for beta and RC testing. Using the hack causes Vista
RTM to think it's an evaluation version and it puts a water mark saying
it's build 6000 for evaluation. Now someone has come up with another hack
that removes the watermark.

Meanwhile back at the ranch us good guys wait for Nov 17th.

Now I ask you, what's a girl to do? ;-)

Are you trying to say that you're a girl?

 

[Guest]

The reason that it expires, is because when you hack the OS with the files
from Beta 2 / RC1 it causes the OS to expire. Look what happens when you
break the law.

 

[John C.]

Where do you get the Nov 17 date? Is this the MSDN release date? RTM
was Nov 8 and MSDN says they will have it up within 7 days of RTM.
That would be Nov 15. Office RTM was Nov 6, it was on MSDN Nov 12.

 

[I.P. Nichols]

Are you trying to say that you're a girl?

Naw, back in 1990 a new TV comedy show named In Living Color introduced Jim
Carey playing a simply awful looking steroid popping character named Vera
DeMilo, Bodybuilder who was often frustrated and vented her frustration by
asking , What's a Girl to Do. ;-)

 

[SpeedKing]

"RTM"(leaked)expires after 30 days anyway and if you take the two files from
rc2 and put them into "RTM"version and use the RC2 product key then all it
does it make it seem you have rc2 when in fact you have "rtm".
Then it expires after the same time that rc2 does.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Where do you get the Nov 17 date? Is this the MSDN release date? RTM
was Nov 8 and MSDN says they will have it up within 7 days of RTM.
That would be Nov 15. Office RTM was Nov 6, it was on MSDN Nov 12.

Yes, November 17th is when Vista will be available on MSDN for download to
subscribers.

 

[John C.]

May I ask how you know this?

Yes, November 17th is when Vista will be available on MSDN for download to
subscribers.

 

[Guest]

This has been discussed at length in this forum. Go ahead and do a search and
you should find the references you looking for.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

May I ask how you know this?

Yes, you may ask.

I first learned about this from internal sources and it has since been
posted publicly on the MSDN subscriptions blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnsubscript...available-from-msdn-subscriber-downloads.aspx.

"In addition, we look forward to adding Windows Vista to our slate of
offerings beginning November 17."

 

[Jon Davis]

Naw, back in 1990 a new TV comedy show named In Living Color introduced
Jim Carey playing a simply awful looking steroid popping character named
Vera DeMilo, Bodybuilder who was often frustrated and vented her
frustration by asking , What's a Girl to Do. ;-)

Ha! Missed that one. I didn't get in on In Living Color and none of those
skit/spoof shows (except SNL) till Mad TV came around...

Jon

 

[Guest]

Remember Lotus?
As easy as 1, 2, 3?
Well, there is some guy around the net saying that this is the way to fix it.
1.- Set BIOS date to year 2099.
2.- Install Vista
3.- Set date to year 2006 within Vista
By 2099 your version of Vista will no longer be valid.

Can it be so easy, MS?
Carlos

 

[Tom Lake]

Remember Lotus?
As easy as 1, 2, 3?
Well, there is some guy around the net saying that this is the way to fix
it.
1.- Set BIOS date to year 2099.
2.- Install Vista
3.- Set date to year 2006 within Vista
By 2099 your version of Vista will no longer be valid.

Can it be so easy, MS?
Carlos

Wow! I'm 51 now so let's see.... I'll be 144 in 2099.
I'd better get a much clearer screen if I want to be able
to read it at that age! 8^)

Tom Lake