Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare
Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
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3.6.2009 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft: Don't Download Windows 7 Interim Builds from Torrent Trackers
Leaked builds of Windows 7 available for download via torrent trackers have been accompanying the development of the next iteration of Windows since the operating system was in Milestone 1 stage.
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16.4.2009 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVDs in the materials from 1/13/2009 on.
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5.12.2008 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Microsoft Ships Second Vista CTP
As expected, Microsoft has shipped the October Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista, embarking on what the company hopes will be monthly test releases of the operating system. Build 5231 first surfaced last week and brings changes to Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Vista's networking.
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Microsoft Cancels November Vista CTP
Microsoft announced in a conference call on Tuesday that no Windows Vista CTP would be released for November, with the development focus shifting to a "quality based schedule, rather than a calendar date one." Instead, a December CTP will be issued before the Christmas holidays.
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30.11.2005 Vista December CTP Due Monday
Sources at Microsoft have told me that the eagerly-awaited December Community Technical Preview (CTP) build of Windows Vista will be delivered to beta testers on Monday. According to my sources, the CTP is build 5270 (5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830).
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16.12.2005 Windows Vista December CTP Today!
Paul apparently knows that beta testers will get this today, since he posted this last wednesday and hasn't updated it since it will be interesting to see if he's correct.
Taken from WinInfo: Sources at Microsoft told me that the eagerly awaited Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of Windows Vista will be delivered to beta testers on Monday. According to my sources, the CTP is build 5270 (5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830).
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19.12.2005 Peak Into February CTP Vista Preview
CNET Senior Editor Robert Vamosi shows off new features buried in the latest community technology preview of Vista that may appeal to non-business users.
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25.2.2006 Robotics Studio September 2006 CTP
The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications.
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17.9.2006 Windows "Longhorn" Server February CTP Now Available
The English-only February 2007 Community Technology Preview of Windows Server "Longhorn" (build 6001-16461-070209-1510) has been released.
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19.2.2007 Microsoft Issues New Longhorn Server CTP
Although Beta 3 of Windows Server "Longhorn" was expected sometime this month, Microsoft has instead issued a new Community Technology Preview.
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8.4.2007 SQL Server 2008 CTP Released
Microsoft on Monday released the first community technology preview of SQL Server 2008, the official name for what was initially codenamed "Katmai." The announcement was made here at the Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando.
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6.6.2007 Windows Server Code Name "Centro" CTP soon
I just got this email, revealing that a CTP for Windows Server "Centro" is underway:
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20.6.2007 Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP now available
Microsoft confirmed today that it has released the Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 as a Community Technology Preview (CTP).
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1.9.2009 Download 64-bit Windows 7 6801 Pre-Beta ISO Microsoft.Windows.7 64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta Torrent
Other than 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta build version 6801 that has been leaked to the Web for free download via torrent, the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta with build tag 6801, which is also been distributed to attendees during the PDC 2008, has been leaked to Internet, and can be downloaded via fully seeded torrent.
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30.10.2008 Full Review: Windows Vista December CTP
Love-him-hate-him Paul Thurrot has released a four part in-depth review of Vista's December CTP. "I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is.
After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive. From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231"
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26.12.2005 Windows Vista Dec. CTP 5270 Screenshots
I wanted to release some
screenshots of Vista Dec. CTP 5270 for people to get a first hand look at the great new OS from Microsoft. (Best viewed at 1024 x 764) Click Read More! For ScreenShots + How to disable the permit and deny application in Vista 5270!
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29.12.2005 Next Windows Vista CTP Scheduled for February 21st
Bink.nu is reporting that a pre beta 2 CTP build will be made available to testers on February 21st. This will be the first 'feature complete' version preceeding Beta 2 which is expected to be complete by April.
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25.1.2006 Longhorn Server CTP program starts in April
Windows Server Devision Blog: One of the things we get asked a lot is when Longhorn Server will be released and when people will be able to get their hands on a new pre-release build. In fact,
as Patrick mentions below, this was also a
frequently asked question for Jim Allchin, co-president of our Platforms, Products and Services division,
when he met with journalists, bloggers and analysts this week, so we thought it was time to put our cards on the table.
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30.1.2006 Vista February CTP: Bets Are on Build No. 5308
While Microsoft officials had told its core of elite beta testers to expect the next Windows Vista milestone on Tuesday, February 21, it now looks as Microsoft is now planning on delivering the code later in the week.
Our sources are saying Vista Build 5308 will likely be christened the February Community Technology Preview (CTP). And it's now sounding like testers will be able to start playing with that build on Friday or Saturday. Microsoft, for its part, isn't talking publicly about its CTP plans, other than to maintain the next test build will be ready in this calendar quarter.
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20.2.2006 Windows Home Server Beta/CTP Preview
Back in January, I posted a preview of Microsoft's Windows Home Server, a product that should send shivers of delight down the spine of any home computing enthusiast.
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19.4.2007 New XP SP3 CTP Development Milestone Available for Download
Microsoft is debuting the second round for Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, almost four months since the service pack was released to manufacturing for the XP client at the end of April 2008.
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13.8.2008 Windows HPC 2008 R2 CTP released
If you've got a spare supercomputer that is just sitting around waiting to test pre-released software on, then you'll be glad to hear that Microsoft has made the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available on Microsoft Connect.
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22.5.2009Microsoft codename "Bulldog"
Patrick G just announced on
his Technet blog a
new Microsoft product, called "Bulldog".
He writes about the main points of the product in development:
- The Stratature +EDM product will be released as a Technology Preview
in February, 2008 to a select group of customers.
- A formal TAP program will commence in the first half of 2008.
- The first
CTP release should be available Q3, 2008.
- General availability for Bulldog is currently planned to coincide with the next release of
Office.
- Where "Bulldog is about making Stratature +EDM a Microsoft product. Bulldog will remain almost identical to +EDM with some
enhancements."
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01.11.2007Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Office 2010 Has Leaked!
The Technical Preview of Office 2010 has officially leaked! WZor.net uploaded a torrent a few hours ago for both the x86 and x64 versions of the
new Office suite.
Without further ado, I present:
Microsoft Office 2010 (x86)
AND
Microsoft Office 2010 (x64)
The x64
torrent doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, but over time, as it gains more seeders, hopefully it will pick up. We were achieving speeds of
up to 1000kbps during our download of the x86 version, so the torrent is going strong... That is, until the rest of the world picks up on it...
Download quickly!
While you eagerly await the end of your download, check out a screenshot gallery from WZor as well (the version pictured
in the screenshots is the x64 version).
The links in this article were obtained from WZor's homepage, http://wzor.net/indexx.html
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16.05.2009Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
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23.12.2008Microsoft Cancels November
Vista CTP
Microsoft announced in a
conference call on Tuesday
that no Windows Vista CTP
would be released for
November, with the development
focus shifting to a
"quality based schedule,
rather than a calendar date
one." Instead, a December
CTP will be issued before the
Christmas holidays...
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30.11.2005"txtor" tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
To the frustration of many students and other avid torrent downloaders, some universities and ISPs have been known to block the download of .torrent
files in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. This quick and dirty method of filtering Internet content is usually done through the use of a proxy
server that will look for a torrent mime-type in the file or, even simpler, the file extension itself. Although this method seems almost too simple to
take seriously, enough admins have found it effective enough to justify its use.
That's why a group of developers launched
txtor today, a site that makes it possible to download .torrent files as if they were text
files. As the site explains, from the user perspective, the service functions very simply. Plug in the URL of a torrent file, and it's translated to
a text file for you to download. For a moderately more technical explanation, the site merely takes the file and changes the mimetype and extension,
then spits it back out at you as a text file in order to bypass proxy-level torrent file blocks. Then, all you need to do is change the file extension
back from .txt to .torrent and open it up in your favorite torrent client. Based on our testing of txtor, we can say that the tool works exactly as
advertised.
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28.09.2007Microsoft Releases December
Vista CTP
In a conference call Monday
afternoon, Shanen Boettcher of
the Windows Client group
announced the availability of
the December Windows Vista
CTP, numbered build 5270. The
CTP focuses on improving
security, performance and
mobility aspects of
Microsoft's next Windows
release, but still lacks the
Sidebar...
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20.12.2005Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial. The new feature is a
link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin
to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed. Many websites allow their users to do
the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be
sharing, with the use of this.
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30.03.2009Popular Torrent Site Suprnova Set to Return
Popular torrent site The
Pirate Bay says it will
relaunch Suprnova.org, one of
the most popular BitTorrent
sites on the Internet and
target of the ire of the MPAA...
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03.08.2007November CTP of SQL Server 2008 (CTP-5) almost done
The November CTP of SQL Server 2008 is a huge step forward as we continue delivering on our Data Platform Vision for Your Data, Any Place, Any Time.
SQL Server 2008 will bring that vision to life, and there is something in this feature-rich CTP to meet the needs of companies of all sizes. I really
believe it is going to be an eye opener for a lot of people, not just in terms of the new features that will be included, but how close we are to
delivering a final product with very high quality. Here a just some of the great new/improved features.
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17.11.2007Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks
Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked
last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By producing this video, the League of Noble Peers, which features many prominent individuals from
the BitTorrent community, has the goal of “ bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual
property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity .” For those still confused, Steal This Film is a
series documenting the movement against intellectual property. The films discuss piracy culture as well as raids against file sharing websites. In the
spirit of piracy, the movie is completely free for download.
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30.12.2007Next Windows Vista CTP -
February 21st
Next release of Microsoft
Windows Vista CTP is set to
February
21st . This won't be
the Beta 2 yet, that is
planned somewhere in April.
The word is that the February
CTP is feature complete!
However, it is not
likely that in this CTP round
a Longhorn Server build will
be distributed.
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26.01.2006Vista 'Enterprise CTP'
Feature Complete
Microsoft has announced the
arrival of the February
Windows Vista CTP, which was
renamed to "Enterprise
CTP" as the company moves
from monthly to audience
specific naming. The release
means Windows Vista is now
"feature complete,"
offering the first glimpse at
the Windows Sidebar...
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23.02.2006Visual Studio 2008 Support for SQL Server 2008, CTP
This CTP enables developers to use Visual Studio 2008 with SQL Server 2008 Nov CTP.
This CTP resolves a problem that when you
try to open a database connection to SQL Server 2008 by using Visual Studio 2008 design tools, you may receive the following error message:
This
server version is not supported. Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported.
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19.02.2008Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 June CTP
Network World is reporting
that Microsoft Tuesday
released the next beta version
of Windows Server 2008 that
adds options for installing
Microsoft's newest Web
server.
The Community
Technology Preview (CTP),
which is Microsofts lingo for
its release cycle of beta
software, is available to MSDN
subscribers, TechNet
subscribers and Connect
testers.
This is the
first CTP since Windows Server
2008 Beta 3 was released in
April. Microsoft officials say
200,000 copies of Beta 3 have
been downloaded. With the new
CTP, Internet Information
Server (IIS) 7.0 is now an
installation option under the
Server Core feature of the
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27.06.2007MS signs off first CTP of Visual Studio Team System (Rosario)
Brian Harry
writes:
Yesterday, we signed off on
the release of the first CTP
for our Rosario release of
VSTS. Rosario, as you may
recall, is the code name for
the release of VSTS that will
follow the VS/VSTS 2008
(Orcas) release. We have not
(and will not soon) be
announcing anticipated
timelines for Rosario, so for
now you'll have to be happy
with getting your hands on the
bits to play with.
I believe this first CTP
will actually be called CTP8
(that's what we call it
internally). That's because
it's the CTP after the 8th
iteration of development. The
next CTP will be after
iteration 10 and will be in
about 3 months. The primary
features in this CTP include
new tools for the manual
tester and work item linking
and hierarchy support. Over
the next few days, I'll pull
together a post with the
details on what is in the CTP
and lay out a more concrete
roadmap for what's now
finished in Orcas and what's
coming in Rosario.
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26.07.2007Vista February CTP, Complete?
In early December of 2005,
Microsoft had announced that
they were to ship a
code-complete version of
Windows Vista internally by
the end of 2005 to prepare for
a CTP of the code-complete
build to be issued to testers.
However this never happened.
Microsoft now plans to have an
internal build of the
code-complete Vista by early
February.
However, the next CTP, due
out on February 17th,
apparently predates the
code-complete version;
therefore, the February CTP
might not in fact be the
code-complete build.
Currently, Microsoft
is internally testing build
5293 of Vista, which means the
February CTP build might be
within the 5300 range.
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11.01.2006Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP now available
Microsoft confirmed today that it has released the Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 as a Community Technology Preview (CTP). "The
availability of the Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP empowers our worldwide ecosystem of OEMs, partners and developers to take advantage of the
next-generation platform's enhanced Windows 7-based features and provide feedback prior to its general release to manufacturing. We encourage the
embedded community to take full advantage of the CTP's availability and join in our excitement as we look ahead to the future availability of
Windows Embedded platforms incorporating Windows 7 technologies" said Kevin Dallas, general manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft.
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01.09.2009Windows Vista CTP Program Ends
It has been revealed, by
visiting the Windows Vista
Beta Pre-Registration page,
that the Windows Vista
Community Technology Preview
(CTP) program, which provided
download access to the CTP
builds, has now come to an
end. This could well mean that
we can expect public betas in
the near future.
Though the preview program
has ended, Microsoft are
continuing to offer valid
registration codes for
enterprise customers, ISVs,
SIs, LARs/VARs, and SBCs.
These select codes can be used
to receive a replicated copy
of the latest CTP version in
the mail.
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30.04.2006CTP of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available today
Ryan Waite: It was almost exactly one year ago that we signed off on beta 2 of Windows HPC Server 2008 and today we made available the Community
Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Based on Windows Server 2008 R2, the CTP is a preliminary release, allowing an early preview of
planned functionality for HPC Server 2008 R2.
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