30 days on, is it all over?
January 13, 2008 – 7:56 pm
It’s been 30 days since I installed WHS and I got an interesting message via the WHS console today, apparently my 120 day evaluation is over. Now….maths has never been my strong point, but, according to Windows Calculator, 120-30 = 90, so I should have 90 days left. Luckily after a reboot of WHS the message disappeared. I’m starting to get the feeling that the evaluation version of WHS was thrown together in a bit of a hurry.
These little annoyances (5 week delivery, pain-in-the-butt upgrade path and this latest piece of misinformation) spoil what is basically a very good piece of software, ironically they have all been faults of the evaluation version and would not have occurred if I had bought the retail version. A little odd really when you consider that people who are using the evaluation version are basically………well….kinda evaluating it.
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2 Responses to “30 days on, is it all over?”
If you click on the Upgrade your Windows home Server. I guess it goes to a link to buy it? If so what’s it cost and do they just send you a key to keep using the 120 day evaluation copy?
-Raymond Day
By Raymond Day on Feb 8, 2008
Don’t worry I got a message saying that my evaluation period had ended, although my server is running a licensed and activated copy of WHS.As suddenly as the message apparead it also disappeared a few hours later.
By Eilko on Feb 11, 2008