Who the hell said anything about OSes? I was talking about Silverlight, Bing, and Photosynth - you know, the things actually mentioned in the article?
I was merely pointing out that in this blog post its ridiculous to talk about how cool the new Bing Maps beta is, and then immediately dismiss it because it wasn't made by Google.
Unfortunately, it looks like 2008 R2 won't be made available until the "second half of August." (last sentence in the first block quote of the post).
I'm really excited to get Win7 on the 6th, but I was hoping 2008 R2 (and Hyper-V 2008 R2) would be released the same day as well. I have a few server builds waiting for R2 also :)
Run "winver" (no quotes) at a command prompt or from the run dialog box. The window that pops up will (among other things) show you when your evaluation period expires.
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
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Who the hell said anything about OSes? I was talking about Silverlight, Bing, and Photosynth - you know, the things actually mentioned in the article?
I was merely pointing out that in this blog post its ridiculous to talk about how cool the new Bing Maps beta is, and then immediately dismiss it because it wasn't made by Google.