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Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day Trial Extended
This morning, I checked my email and actually took a look at a Technet newsletter I regularly receive. This particular one had the following subject: “Windows 7 Trial extended.” Windows 7 trial? I honestly had no idea this particular trial offer was available in the first place, but apparently, it has been and now it’s being extended. Here’s what the email had to say:
The availability of Windows 7 Enterprise (Eval) 90-day Trial is being extended to Dec 31, 2010. Intended primarily for IT pros, the 90-day trial is the full-featured Enterprise SKU that will enable any organization to explore, test hardware and applications, perform pilot activities, and develop deployment scenarios.
What the aforementioned quote *doesn’t* tell you is that the full-featured Enterprise SKU is exactly the same as the full-featured Ultimate SKU — just with different branding. So, long story short, Microsoft is essentially offering Windows 7 Ultimate free for 90 days to one and all. And when those 90 days are up, you’ve still got another 90 to go via the slmgr trick, so that’s 180 days free. After that, there are more creative ventures coming to light, but nothing I would personally endorse. And just for the record, Microsoft canned the “shutdown /s /t 315359999″ trick back in Vista, so if you thought you would trick the 1-hour shutdown deal, think again.
My only question at this point is what’s stopping anyone from simply creating a new email alias, signing up for the trial again, reinstalling it and then tacking on another 180 days for free? Maybe that’s too much to expect anyone to go through or maybe you wouldn’t even need to take it that far, but if someone is looking to keep something for free, people can get pretty creative sometimes (short of just downloading a crack and calling it done).
Download the Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day Trial: Click Here
And just in case you happen to be in the market for a particular Windows 7 ISO, I wrote guide not too long ago showing you how to use Google to find just about any Windows 7 ISO of your choice: How-to: Quickly Find a Windows 7 ISO on an HTTP Server via Google
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