Microsoft Beta Invite ID's
A full list of Beta programs you can sign up with through Microsoft. All current Beta Invite ID's. Includes Windows Media Center, Windows Installer, Communication Server, and more.
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Windows 7 Beta Download Page URL and Connect Invite Sent to Testers
Microsoft has sent out invites for early participation in Windows 7 Beta program to selected few privileged technical beta testers and existing MVPs.
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21.12.2008 Microsoft launches Popfly, Alpha Invite Only
Microsoft has announced the alpha version launch of a new product called Popfly, a tool designed to help non-programmers in creating, sharing, and embedding mashups of content, feeds, web pages and gadgets.
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19.5.2007 EXCLUSIVE: New Office 12 invite!
After the closure of the PDC invite, Microsoft has provided another Office 12 beta testing invite!
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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Leaks, Public Beta Expected in November
After Microsoft announced yesterday that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will be sent to testers this week, more exciting news comes from the Office 2010 section.
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21.10.2009 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from
MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.7.2007 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft AntiSpyware (beta)
Help protect your PC from spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
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Microsoft CRM 3.0 Beta Now Available
A
public beta release of Microsoft CRM 3.0, the second major revision of the company's customer relationship management software, is now available for Microsoft registered members and partners. A final launch is scheduled for the first quarter of 2006.
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2
As reported by us earlier here silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 for Windows is now finally available for download
There’s lots of new features in this release — including, but not limited.
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6.6.2008 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 Microsoft Opens Up Beta Development
The days of waiting six months for a new Windows beta release are over, Microsoft declared at PDC 2005 in Los Angeles. Learning from its community technology preview (CTP) programs, the company will issue monthly test releases of Windows Vista moving forward.
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Microsoft Mail Beta Signup
We think you're going to really like the clean new look and other features -- at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure we are doing this thing right.
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Microsoft announces a new DirectX Beta
Welcome to the Microsoft DirectX SDK October 2005 Update Beta Program!
This is the Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) Update for October 2005. This release includes a new SDK component Xinput, graphics samples, tools, documentation, and Pre-release components Microsoft Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT) and support for the 2.0 Common Language Runtime in Managed DirectX.
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Microsoft: No Sidebar Until Vista Beta 2
Testers and developers looking forward to playing with Vista's most prominent new feature over the holidays will have to wait a bit longer. Microsoft officials confirmed to BetaNews late Monday that the Windows Sidebar won't be delivered in a public build until Beta 2.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2
Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters.
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28.1.2006 Microsoft Preps IE 7 Beta Refresh
On Monday at the Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft will issue a refreshed version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 beta, which the company is describing as feature complete. The company will also discuss the next version of IE at the show, which will likely include features that didn't make it into IE 7, including a true download manager and more seamless inline Web page searching.
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Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 now?
Paul Thurrott writes in is weekly edition of shortakes that "the Vista Beta 2 build candidate is up to build 5384.3", he also notes that "you never know if a last-minute change could cause it to jump to the build 5385 range. "
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20.5.2006 Microsoft MOM 2007 Beta 2 Now Available
Microsoft has just released Beta 2 of their systems management flagship System Center Operations Manager 2007 for public testing.
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6.6.2006 Microsoft To Shut Off Vista Beta 2
Microsoft plans to close the Windows Vista Beta 2 test to new users after Friday, a company executive said Thursday..
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2.7.2006 Microsoft Shows Beta Homepage!
Microsoft has launched the Beta or a tester homepage. The homepage can be viewed at HomePage Preview. It is to be noted that the preview is working only in Internet Explorer at this point of time and it is giving an error while you browse through Firefox and same is the case with Opera.
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24.7.2006 Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1
Microsoft® Expression® Web is a new designer-focused product that provides powerful tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.
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7.9.2006 Microsoft Opens Centro Beta
We are looking for a few good testers to help influence the direction of this new Microsoft® Windows Server Solutions Product.
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25.10.2006 Microsoft Opens Up Halo 3 Beta
Microsoft's Bungie Studios has put the call out for beta testers of the next installment of the Halo game series for the Xbox 360 console, set to offer for the first time a multiplayer aspect of the game through Xbox Live.
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7.12.2006 Microsoft Robotics Software Out of Beta
Microsoft on Wednesday officially released its robot software development environment, aiming to put the company in the center of robotics by licensing out its operating system to hobbyists and companies alike.
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13.12.2006 Microsoft Expression Design Beta 2
Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces.
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19.3.2007 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 is a preview release of the latest version of the .NET Framework.
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29.4.2007 Microsoft will push IE 8 public beta
Microsoft has surprised watchers by saying that it will shortly make a first beta of Internet Explorer 8 generally available, according to a staffer at IT Week who wishes to remain anonymous.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 2 beta
Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
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6.3.2008Windows Live Messenger Invite
Winners
After almost 400 comments, we
have chosen the winners of our
second Windows Live Messenger
beta invite giveaway. Many of
you came up with excellent
slogans for Windows Vista, and
I'm sure a few Microsoft
marketing folks were reading
through the responses. And the
winners are.....
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19.01.2006Beta testers sought for a social network for outdoorsmen
At this point, there's a social network for everything, and Lifefitter is accepting beta invite requests for no less than nineteen (and
counting) action sports-related networks going into private beta testing in December...
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07.11.2008Windows Live Messenger Beta to
Begin
Microsoft this week is
beginning wider beta testing
of Windows Live Messenger,
which will succeed MSN
Messenger as the company's
primary communications client
for consumers. Microsoft is
taking the Gmail approach for
the beta: invitations were
sent out to a handful of
testers, who can later invite
their friends...
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13.12.2005Do you want a Live Mesh invite? Have an invite to share? Visit www.sharemesh.com
Long Zheng: You might have heard the buzz about
Microsoft’s Live Mesh software-as-a-service platform
launched over the past week and wondered what all the fuss is about. Well you probably didn't get very far before you were stopped in the
registration process to find out it was invite-only. Apparently it’s a necessary to help them scale with demand.
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26.04.2008Joost Allowing Unlimited Beta Invites
Internet television service
Joost moved into public beta
on Tuesday, as the company
announced that it is allowing
its existing beta testers to
invite an unlimited number of
friends and family to sign up
for the service...
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01.05.2007Office 2010: No public beta for now
Neowin already reported that Office 2010 Beta 1 due in early July will not be available for public testing. Now Microsoft has confirmed that it will
indeed not release a public beta of Office 2010 for testing, to the general public and will limit the Technical Preview to a group of thousands of
invite-only users starting in the third quarter of 2009. The second beta is due in early November and it is not clear whether Microsoft will open it
to the general public. "The technology preview, as Microsoft will call the beta program, will involve 'thousands of users'. At this point
there is no plan. (to offer the beta to the general public) ".
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16.04.2009'Albany': New Microsoft 'home office' in the works?
Microsoft has begun inviting selected testers to be part of a beta of a new, consumer-focused Office-family product, codenamed "Albany."
The beta invitation for Albany is cryptic, according to testers who received the invite and asked not to be named. Albany will be aimed at
home PC users, not business customers, and will include both a software and a services component. The individuals whove been invited into the private,
limited beta so far are those whove previously beta-tested Office releases.
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21.03.2008Microsoft backtracks, says Office 2010 beta will be public
Microsoft Corp. today promised that it would provide at least one public beta to Office 2010, saying that its assertion to the contrary yesterday was
"the wrong impression."
"Although we are not disclosing a date for the public beta, there definitely will be one," a company
spokesman said this morning. "This development cycle for Office is no different than years past; technical preview is usually invite-only, but still
goes out to hundreds of thousands of people, and there is a public beta cycle where millions can download and try Office."
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17.04.2009Get An Invite To Any Startup's Private Beta
One of the most frustrating
things for early adopters like
ourselves to deal with is the
private, limited invitation
beta. The startups seed a few
invitations to their friends,
and each new account has 3 or
so invitations that can be
given away. If you know the
founders or one of the very
early users, you can get in
quickly. But if you dont, you
often have to wait a long time
to see a new product.
Startups love this, of
course. They've created
scarcity around a virtual good
and that creates buzz. The
most successful products can
count on invitations being
sold on eBay - something we
saw with
Gmail in 2004 and
more
recently with
Pownce.
A
month or so ago we had the
idea to create an email based
product that linked people
with early invites to beta
services to people without
invites. If done correctly and
in an organized way, a viral
effect can take root and just
about everyone who wants an
invite can get one quickly. We
started building the product.
But today we found a service
that does exactly what we were
thinking of building -
InviteShare<
/a>.
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13.07.2007Microsoft Popfly moves to Public Beta Stage
Microsoft has announced the public beta launch (meaning a Live ID is required to join) of Popfly, which was previously in alpha invite-only stage. For
those that have followed the development of Popfly, which is powered by Microsoft Silverlight, it can now create both Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets
and Windows Live gadgets. Also, more properties can now be tweaked for the many output blocks, including Photoshow, Virtual Earth, PhotoSphere, Gauge,
and Page Turner. For those who aren’t aware of what Popfly is, please continue reading below.
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19.10.2007Windows Live Messenger - Why
so many invites?
Have you been getting a lot of
invites for WLM recently? This
is due to the fact that
Microsoft has recently been
updating their service system.
They have been giving out a
large amount of invites so
they can test whether the new
system can handle the 180
million+ users on MSN
Messenger.
Microsoft recently hit their
first target number, so they
decided to give out more
invites so they can hit their
next target number. Giving out
more invites makes sure that
more people will join the
beta, and will also help
Microsoft test their servers
for stability.
On that note, there are
still many people who want to
join the WLM Beta. Microsoft
has opened up its WLM service
to anyone who wants to join at
the
Windows Live
Ideas Homepage. However,
there is a catch. Once you
sign up for the beta by
scrolling down, and clicking
"sign up", you won't be
able to automatically be able
to use WLM, but be on the list
for an invite on Microsoft's
next round of invites.
The exact date of
the next release is still
unknown, but Microsoft
promises us to give out
multiple releases this year.
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17.01.2006Want a Windows Live Messenger
Invite?
After receiving hundreds of
comments on older articles
from people begging to be
invited into the Windows Live
Messenger beta test, we've
listened to the demand and
have 35 invitations to give to
you, our readers. Want to be
one of the selected few? Read
on to find out how...
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12.01.2006PINNED: Microsoft Updates Live
Messenger Beta
Microsoft on Tuesday began
rolling out a new Windows Live
Messenger build to beta
testers, streamlining the
client's interface and adding
a number of new features such
as integration with Windows
Live Contacts. The release,
numbered 8.0.566, also
supports colorization of the
entire Messenger window.
For now, Live
Messenger remains a private
beta test, but Microsoft is
encouraging users to invite as
many people as possible, and
the company is reportedly
accepting new applications
within 24 hours through
ideas.live.com. Developers
aren't offering a final
release date, but say it will
occur later this year.
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01.03.2006Win a Live Messenger Invite,
Part II
The response to our previous
post on Windows Live Messenger
invitations was beyond what we
could have imagined, so we've
decided to offer another
opportunity to join the beta.
Many of you came up with
excellent ideas for features
in Windows Vista, but we could
only choose 35. And the
winners are.....
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14.01.2006Microsoft MyPhone service coming to invite-only beta soon, website launched
Today, the new Microsoft service, "My Phone" launched it's
official
website.
On My Phone's website, it gives us some information about what My Phone is really about. This service basically can backup
and restore your Windows Mobile phone to a secure website. That's not all it does though; it also can gives you a web account that lets you view and
modify calendar appointments along with contacts. Sharing photos is made easier using the online account too, by letting you take saved pictures from
your phone and downloading them to your computer and/or emailing them to your friends and family.
This service is free, and will work
with any Windows Mobile 6+ operating system. Microsoft gives you 200 MB of data in your account to use towards phone synchronizations.
Another feature of this application lets you restore all of your data to a new phone, should your old phone get lost or stolen. Simply use the same
Windows Live ID to sign in with the application, and all of your data will restore once you hit the sync button.
This has not been
released yet, and is expected to be released to select beta testers in an invite-only beta test at the Mobile World Congress.
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08.02.2009Microsoft sends out Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta invites
No sooner has the Windows Live Wave 2 suite been released than the first Wave 3 beta begins - Windows Live Messenger v9. Unlike the betas that have
just finished, the Messenger v9 beta is being run from Microsoft Connect as a private beta, meaning that, for the moment at least,
unless you receive an invite, you won't be able to
participate.
For the moment it looks like most previous Windows Live testers are getting invites, so stay tuned to your inbox.
With such a popular beta like this, you better sign up quick.
So what's new? While the goodies aren't yet available, we've
heard about Multiple Points Of Presence (MPOP) support, which allows you to signin from multiple devices, ie be online at two places at once.
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21.11.2007Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta program frustrates testers
The first Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta build was released in November 2007. The release brought the ability to sign into Messenger from up to four
computers at once, the ability to choose customized sounds for your sign-in and for your contacts, URLs in Personal Status Messages, and Animated
Display Pictures. However, features requested across the many Messenger programs such as Tabbed Conversations and the ability to decline a group
conversation invite were nowhere to be seen.
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14.05.2008Windows Live OneCare 2.5 beta ending, perpetual beta begins.
According to sources, following the official release of the final version of Windows Live OneCare 2.5, Microsoft sent out a flurry of e-mails to its
testers. First off, the software giant reminded its testers that the 2.5 Beta will expire on July 31, 2008, after which OneCare will no longer keep
itself up to date (both virus definitions and the actual software). Testers are urged to uninstall the beta and buy a full subscription, which is
offered to them at a discounted $24.95 a year for up to three PCs, until July 31, 2008.
With the beta wrapping up, Microsoft quickly
sent out another e-mail to certain testers asking if they wanted to continue to test new versions of the software. If the answer was yes, Microsoft
responded with a confirmation and then the next day, e-mailed that tester the details of the Windows Live OneCare Perpetual Beta program, an
invite-only group. Version 2.5 was all about under-the-hood improvements but based on what my source tells me about the Perpetual Beta, it seems that
Microsoft is now satisfied with the program's performance and is focusing on new features and functionality.
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19.07.2008Quake Wars public beta details confirmed
Activision is to invite 60,000
gamers into the public beta of
multiplayer shooter Enemy
Territory: Quake Wars (PC),
it's been confirmed, although
a start date for the beta is
yet to be announced.
Gamers who secure a place
in the public beta will be
thrashing the living daylights
out of only one map, Sewer.
This level "is part of
ETQW's Pacific Campaign",
the Quake Wars website
explains. "Set in Japan, the
map revolves around a Strogg
base hidden in, well, a sewer.
It's an interesting mix of
outdoor and indoor, vehicle
and infantry combat,
deployables and
counter-deployables and good
old-fashioned FPS combat."
An announcement on
the website adds, "If you'd
like to help us finish ETQW,
we'd really appreciate your
participation. If you want to
just play a game for free you
may find it a frustrating
experience. This Public Beta
is not the Demo - it's not
the finished game, but an
opportunity to get feedback
from a large group of people
while testing stability and
performance on a wider range
of hardware combinations...
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18.06.2007Ether Looking to be 'eBay of
Services'
Start up Ether has launched
what it calls an "eBay for
services," allowing anyone
with a telephone or e-mail
access to charge for the
services they provide. The
company, wholly owned by
pay-per-call firm Ingenio,
launched an invite-only beta
on Wednesday...
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