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Report: Georgetown University bans use of Windows 7 beta

 
Georgetown University is banning the use of the Windows 7 beta , informing students and faculty it will not support the trial version of Microsoft's latest operating system, according to a report in InformationWeek The university's information technology group notes it generally does not support any beta version of ... (link)

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