Post by Kevin McAleavey on May 14, 2012 1:24:21 GMT -5
Since folks who have been beta-testing our next release are about to face expiration of our RC1 release and there is no need to move to any additional test releases, the current RC1 will expire at 11:59PM on the 15th, GMT. In other words, it'll still work all day Tuesday.
KNOS Secure Desktop, version 9 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) tonight. For our testers, you can expect to receive and email from us Monday evening, US Eastern time, well in advance of the expiration which will provide you with a link to download the 32 and 64 bit versions of the release product with our extreme thanks for participating in our testing.
KNOS customers will hear from us later in the week as we work now with Digital River to make the commercial product available and for them to manufacture DVD's to ship to our customers. Since we had expected to go to a second release candidate and things have worked out so well as to not require it, we don't want to leave our loyal testers without a working copy of KNOS and so we're going to put you to the front of the line "later today" so you can maintain uninterrupted enjoyment of KNOS Secure Desktop, version 9. Existing copies of the original KNOS version 8 do not expire at all and therefore there is no concern about expiry for our version 8 customers.
Those who have purchased the annual subscription plan when they purchased KNOS 8 last year will be offered a free upgrade to KNOS 9 as part of their subscription. There will be an additional charge however if you require that Digital River provide a DVD copy per the agreement. The replacement download is free.
Beta testers are advised to watch for the email, it should be there within 24 hours of this post or less, as soon as the files are uploaded and have been downloaded to have their validity verified.
Corporate and institutional customers who wish to upgrade to version 9 should contact support to arrange for any custom builds or modifications to their existing version products if desired as these too are covered under your maintenance agreement.
KNOS Secure Desktop, version 9 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) tonight. For our testers, you can expect to receive and email from us Monday evening, US Eastern time, well in advance of the expiration which will provide you with a link to download the 32 and 64 bit versions of the release product with our extreme thanks for participating in our testing.
KNOS customers will hear from us later in the week as we work now with Digital River to make the commercial product available and for them to manufacture DVD's to ship to our customers. Since we had expected to go to a second release candidate and things have worked out so well as to not require it, we don't want to leave our loyal testers without a working copy of KNOS and so we're going to put you to the front of the line "later today" so you can maintain uninterrupted enjoyment of KNOS Secure Desktop, version 9. Existing copies of the original KNOS version 8 do not expire at all and therefore there is no concern about expiry for our version 8 customers.
Those who have purchased the annual subscription plan when they purchased KNOS 8 last year will be offered a free upgrade to KNOS 9 as part of their subscription. There will be an additional charge however if you require that Digital River provide a DVD copy per the agreement. The replacement download is free.
Beta testers are advised to watch for the email, it should be there within 24 hours of this post or less, as soon as the files are uploaded and have been downloaded to have their validity verified.
Corporate and institutional customers who wish to upgrade to version 9 should contact support to arrange for any custom builds or modifications to their existing version products if desired as these too are covered under your maintenance agreement.