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How does one go about getting the latest and greatest of all the beta
versions of vista. How do you qualify?
I sever al students on several campuses have the latest, why is Microsoft
holding backing and causing severe headaches for the many.
 
cbdeans said:
How does one go about getting the latest and greatest of all the beta
versions of vista. How do you qualify?
I sever al students on several campuses have the latest, why is Microsoft
holding backing and causing severe headaches for the many.
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Legally you can't. It is available unofficially on a number of different
P2P networks, but without a key it won't do you much good.

MS has not made any builds past RC2 available to the general public. A
select group of technical testers did get one build past RC2.
 
You don't [unless you have an "in" at Microsoft or are willing to torrent
download pirate trojanned hackware]. So until there's some surprise RC3
release, the "latest" builds are not available to the public. You can obtain
RC2 if you have one of those subscriptions .. otherwise it's RC1. Then
otherwise it's a wait for the RTM/Gold version available at your favourite
retail/online outlet or pre-installed on a new computer.
 
Saucy said:
You don't [unless you have an "in" at Microsoft or are willing to torrent
download pirate trojanned hackware]. So until there's some surprise RC3
release, the "latest" builds are not available to the public. You can obtain
RC2 if you have one of those subscriptions .. otherwise it's RC1. Then
otherwise it's a wait for the RTM/Gold version available at your favourite
retail/online outlet or pre-installed on a new computer.
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LOL- You all kill me.
#1 it's not illegal-the beta is free
#2 its not hacked or full of viruses

Point of reference-5744 was on the torrents before MSFT decided to
release it through their servers- It was neither hacked-nor was it
infested with viruses or spyware(oops;yes it is-SPP)

And it being free; and readily available; the comments of legality and
being hacked and full of viruses; are just complete bs.

Jeff
 
Probably more correct to say "#2 You don't know if it's hacekd or full
of viruses". All that you know is that it comes from an untrusted
source; it's probalby ok, but it might not be. And there is no way to
be sure (either way) unless you have a known good copy or at least a
checksum of a known good copy.

Saucy said:
cbdeans said:
How does one go about getting the latest and greatest of all the beta
versions of vista. How do you qualify?
I sever al students on several campuses have the latest, why is
Microsoft holding backing and causing severe headaches for the many.
Click to expand...


You don't [unless you have an "in" at Microsoft or are willing to
torrent download pirate trojanned hackware]. So until there's some
surprise RC3 release, the "latest" builds are not available to the
public. You can obtain RC2 if you have one of those subscriptions ..
otherwise it's RC1. Then otherwise it's a wait for the RTM/Gold
version available at your favourite retail/online outlet or
pre-installed on a new computer.
Click to expand...
LOL- You all kill me.
#1 it's not illegal-the beta is free
#2 its not hacked or full of viruses

Point of reference-5744 was on the torrents before MSFT decided to
release it through their servers- It was neither hacked-nor was it
infested with viruses or spyware(oops;yes it is-SPP)

And it being free; and readily available; the comments of legality and
being hacked and full of viruses; are just complete bs.

Jeff
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Barry,
Fair enough, point taken; true true
:-)

Jeff

Barry said:
Probably more correct to say "#2 You don't know if it's hacekd or full
of viruses". All that you know is that it comes from an untrusted
source; it's probalby ok, but it might not be. And there is no way to
be sure (either way) unless you have a known good copy or at least a
checksum of a known good copy.

Saucy said:
cbdeans wrote:

How does one go about getting the latest and greatest of all the beta
versions of vista. How do you qualify?
I sever al students on several campuses have the latest, why is
Microsoft holding backing and causing severe headaches for the many.


You don't [unless you have an "in" at Microsoft or are willing to
torrent download pirate trojanned hackware]. So until there's some
surprise RC3 release, the "latest" builds are not available to the
public. You can obtain RC2 if you have one of those subscriptions ..
otherwise it's RC1. Then otherwise it's a wait for the RTM/Gold
version available at your favourite retail/online outlet or
pre-installed on a new computer.
Click to expand...
LOL- You all kill me.
#1 it's not illegal-the beta is free
#2 its not hacked or full of viruses

Point of reference-5744 was on the torrents before MSFT decided to
release it through their servers- It was neither hacked-nor was it
infested with viruses or spyware(oops;yes it is-SPP)

And it being free; and readily available; the comments of legality and
being hacked and full of viruses; are just complete bs.

Jeff
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Probably more correct to say "#2 You don't know if it's hacekd or full
of viruses". All that you know is that it comes from an untrusted
source; it's probalby ok, but it might not be. And there is no way to
be sure (either way) unless you have a known good copy or at least a
checksum of a known good copy.
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But then the known (if it had been made public by MS) MD5 would be
wrong? right?
 
Rick said:
Very few run build checksums. Most don't even know what they are.
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And Rick,
When was the last time you actually did?
Yup, I know it's best practice to do so, just playin devil's advocate here.
Me, the last time I did,was 5384,and that's cuz of AKAMI funkying out
when I was dloading. When I figured out not to use them; never had an
issue since.
:-)

Jeff-lucky maybe;using free download manager instead
 
Jeff said:
And Rick,
When was the last time you actually did?
Yup, I know it's best practice to do so, just playin devil's advocate here.
Me, the last time I did,was 5384,and that's cuz of AKAMI funkying
out when I was dloading. When I figured out not to use them; never had
an issue since.
:-)

Jeff-lucky maybe;using free download manager instead
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Jeff:

I don't get it. You have a download that maybe takes a couple of hours,
and a checksum test that takes maybe a minute. Why would anybody not do
it?. Not to mention the time to burn, and possible waste of a disk if
you are not using rewritable disks.

I think I have done 8 Vista downloads, and I got one bad check sum. Well
worth the (minimal) effort. I use the free HashCalc from SlavaSoft.

David Wilkinson
 
David said:
Jeff:

I don't get it. You have a download that maybe takes a couple of hours,
and a checksum test that takes maybe a minute. Why would anybody not do
it?. Not to mention the time to burn, and possible waste of a disk if
you are not using rewritable disks.

I think I have done 8 Vista downloads, and I got one bad check sum. Well
worth the (minimal) effort. I use the free HashCalc from SlavaSoft.

David Wilkinson
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David;
Didn't say I shouldn't.
I should actually; you're correct;it's easy and fast.
Just haven't, and been lucky I guess.

Jeff :-)
 
Every build downloaded, every disk burnt.

A lot shorter time invested than trying to figure out why an install fails
repeatedly.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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