{"id":8331,"date":"2013-01-15T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:02:55","slug":"windows-8-evaluation-version-timing-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/windows-8-evaluation-version-timing-out-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 evaluation version timing out today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/windows-8-evaluation-version-timing-out-today\/hard-drive-grim-reaper\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8332\" alt=\"hard drive grim reaper\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hard-drive-grim-reaper-297x300.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hard-drive-grim-reaper-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hard-drive-grim-reaper-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hard-drive-grim-reaper-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hard-drive-grim-reaper.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>It was going to happen sooner or later.\u00a0 Windows 8 crashed on me, rebooted, then said it will reboot in an hour and every 2 hours after that.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Fair enough, but why pretend it was a crash?\u00a0 Could have just have a picture of the grim reaper and said, &#8220;Your time is up&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Ah well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I like windows 8 despite all the heaters and will buy a proper version tonight.\u00a0 I will most likely write a follow up post on how it goes.\u00a0 Assuming I get this post out before it reboots. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And remember folks, after Jan 2013, the price will jump from $40 to $200, so get on it.<\/p>\n<p>{Newer Update}<\/p>\n<p>Finally got everything installed and working. Finally, life is good again on my X61.<\/p>\n<p>{update}<\/p>\n<p>So I bought windows8 upgrade, $39.00.\u00a0 Downloaded it, and went through the install process.\u00a0 Locked up twice on me.\u00a0 On the 3rd attempt it finally made it all the way through.\u00a0 Of course the crappy part about all this is all my apps were wacked.\u00a0 Kept all my files though. Whats funny in the first thing I did was kill off 1\/2 the tiles because I would never use them and they are annoying.\u00a0 Next I opened IE to do, what else? Download Firefox and Chrome.\u00a0 The fricken browser locked up on me as I was typing in Chrome!\u00a0 And then again later as I was trying to click download.\u00a0 Now it unfroze after a few seconds, but still!<\/p>\n<p>Finally have my two browsers back and have to go through the fun process of reinstalling everything.\u00a0 Ah well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was going to happen sooner or later.\u00a0 Windows 8 crashed on me, rebooted, then said it will reboot in an hour and every 2 hours after that.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Fair enough, but why pretend it was a crash?\u00a0 Could have just have a picture of the grim reaper and said, &#8220;Your time is up&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Ah&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/windows-8-evaluation-version-timing-out-today\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,1128,1576],"tags":[1962],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-review","category-windows","category-windows-8","tag-x61"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-2an","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}