For those of you (like me) who downloaded and installed Windows 7 beta in January of 2009, its time you save your files, uninstall Windows 7 beta and either go back to Windows XP or Vista (or whatever you had before 7) or time to download the RC (Release Candidate*) for Windows 7 and install that in the place of the Windows 7 beta.  Starting on July 1 (which is a month away) the beta version will shut down automatically every 2 hours.  Then on Aug 1, the beta edition will not function at all.  So it is now time to either continue the upgrades or go back to your previous stable version. 

     If your interested in downloading Windows 7 RC you can find it at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx?ITPID=google (http://technet NULL.microsoft NULL.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205 NULL.aspx?ITPID=google). The 7 RC will be function until March 1,2010 which gives you 9 months to play with the latest edition from Microsoft for free before having to go out and buy it. 

(*The term release candidate (RC) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Computer_bug) emerge. In this stage of product stabilization (read QA cycle), all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more Beta cycles with no known showstopper (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Showstopper)-class bug. From Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle))