{"id":508,"date":"2009-05-18T05:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-05-13T20:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T03:48:26","slug":"get-windows-for-free-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/get-windows-for-free-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Windows for Free for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-509\" href=\"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/get-windows-for-free-for-a-year\/windows_logo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-509\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"windows_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/windows_logo.gif\" alt=\"windows_logo\" width=\"148\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a>For those of you that want to play around with Windows for some reason, you can. Microsoft is providing its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Windows\/Windows-7\/download.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 Release Candidate as a free download<\/a>! The coolest part is that the RC should run for about a year before expiring. So if your running OS X and maybe need to run Windows in a VM, you can get it for free for a year and not feel horrible for purchasing a copy of XP or even worse, Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend running the 32-bit version in a VM as it is a little less resource hungry. Get it while you can&#8230; The free download will end in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that want to play around with Windows for some reason, you can. Microsoft is providing its Windows 7 Release Candidate as a free download! The coolest part is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[44,84],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-free","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}