Published 1/30/2009
by Dawn Kawamoto
at CNET News - Business Tech
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 ...
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