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 DVD’s in the materials from 1/13/2009 on”.
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5.12.2008 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 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 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 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 Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?
I’ve been running Windows 7 beta 1 for now eight weeks and I’ve put this beta thorough a serious workout.
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21.2.2009 Windows Defender Beta 2
Overview
This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft?s growing understanding of the spyware landscape.
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14.2.2006 Windows VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta
PROnetworks announced that VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta, the newest version of the original program developed by the PROnetworks Betas Team and the Beta Testing Forum, is now available for download. This is an update to the original VistaBootPRO 1.0 Beta. There are lots of new features and improved GUI interface. Full support for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Build 5456 has been added as well.
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15.7.2006 Safari 3.0.4 Beta for Windows
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
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16.11.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Just Around the Corner?
Microsoft has not only wrapped up the first Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, but is also close to releasing the first Beta of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Windows 7 beta 1 review
I’ve now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest release.
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29.12.2008 Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN!
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8.1.2009 Windows 7 Changes Since Beta for the RC
We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received on Windows 7.
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26.2.2009 Windows 7 Beta 1: Two Months Later
I've been running the software since Jan. 9. It's time for an update on the experience.
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9.3.2009 Windows 7, a few more changes from Beta to RC…
Building on the recent post on some changes since Beta) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate.
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13.3.2009 Windows 7 Beta Is Dead
This is it! Today, August 1st, 2009 is the final expiration deadline for Build 7000, which is the first and only Beta development milestone of Windows 7.
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1.8.2009 DOWNLOAD Windows Vista Beta 1
links updated
This is Unofficial Download page of Windows Vista Beta 1. Windows Vista codename Longhorn, the next generation OS from Microsoft
This is Beta 1. Build 5112 for those inclined to such information.
Please post this on other forums and sumbit this to other news sites to help us. It will increase the traffic to the page dramatically!
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Windows Vista Beta 2 Videos
After installing Beta 2 of Microsoft's upcoming operating system, I decided to grab a few videos of the GUI in action. Read more for videos.
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Windows OneCare Beta Goes Live
Microsoft is waving goodbye to Symantec and McAfee it seems. On Tuesday, the company opened the doors to its Windows OneCare Live beta, a PC protection and maintenance service that offers an antivirus and firewall, along with tune-up and backup functionality.
Any Windows XP SP2 user can now register to download the latest beta release.
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1.12.2005 Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2
Overview
Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft WinFX name space (System.Workflow), an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
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16.1.2006 Windows Live Messenger 8.0 BETA
Windows Live Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger-your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video-plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
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28.1.2006 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 Windows Defender Beta 2 Update
Microsoft released a new Windows Defender 2, yesterday. Used to check for spyware mainly, Windows Defender is the succesor of Windows Antispyware.
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13.4.2006 Sign up for Windows Vista 2 Beta
Lead evaluations for new technologies and understand their impact on your IT environment and their potential for your company by pre-registering here.
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10.5.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2 released
Windows Vista Beta 2 has officialy been released to testers, via Microsoft's Connect portal. The build number is 5384.4. Windows Server "Longhorn" has also been released to testers. The packages are available for both the x86 and x64 platforms.
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23.5.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2: Aftermath
Shortly after Microsoft released Vista Beta 2, the big hardware vendors released updated drivers for the general public to install on their test machines. NVidia has released
nForce drivers (nForce 4 or greater) and
Forceware drivers for their chipsets/video cards and ATI has just posted
updated Catalyst drivers for their Radeon products.
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24.5.2006 Windows Vista beta 2 DOWNLOAD
The Vista Beta 2 x86 DVD is 3,200.15 MB. The package contains Ultimate, Home Basic, Home Premium, and Business binaries. As ever, the key used is what determines what SKU you see.
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24.5.2006 Official: Windows Beta 2 Available for download
As previously mentioned by Tekmaven on bink.nu, here is the offical blurb from the offical Windows Vista Website concerning Beta 2.
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8.6.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006BT handed 100,000 file-sharer's IP addresses from BPI
The BPI have accused BT of not doing enough to prevent music piracy, after handing them 100,000 IP addresses of users allegedly caught sharing
copyrighted files, according to an article by TorrentFreak posted yesterday. BT said it could cost ISPs £365m a year to take action against
piracy, although the chief executive of the BPI, Geoff Taylor, claims that BT's figures are exaggerated. The BPI said it was "shameful" that BT
had nothing about the 100,000 IP addresses it gave them, however chief of BT's consumer division, John Petter, said that taking such action could
cost £365m a year, a whole £165m more than what the BPI claims the music industry will lose this year, due to piracy.
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30.09.2009BT to test Phorm again, this time telling customers
UK internet service provider BT, a branch of British Telecom, will be running another trial of the controversial behavioral advertising system Phorm...
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30.09.2008BT unveils "Blackberry for consumers"
BT is trying to introduce consumers to the delights of Blackberry-style mobile email and web access.
Dubbed BT Total Broadband Anywhere,
the service provides the company's broadband customers with a "free" HTC Windows Mobile smartphone to take outside of the home.
The
smartphone will hook up to any BT Wi-Fi hotspot - including 80,000 BT FON hotspots - to make calls, download emails or surf the web. When outside of a
hotspot zone, the smartphone reverts to dawdling GPRS on the Vodafone network.
BT is attempting to play-up the simplicity of the device,
claiming that it is simple for users to synchronise their BT email, VoIP telephone service and calendar. "This is not a niche play," Warren Buckley,
BT's group director of mobile and convergence told PC Pro at this afternoon's launch event. "Having email and calendar access is not
something consumers are used to. In testing, that was something consumers were very attracted to."
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08.05.2008BT and Virgin Media to press ahead with Phorm
Stock prices of Phorm, a controversial targeted advertising company, rose as much as 40% in trading yesterday. Phorm deliver targeted advertising
based on user browsing habits by using deep packet inspection. The method has been widely accepted as controversial and has involved the UK police and
UK Government. BT has been trialing the system for some time with the latest 4 week trial concluding recently. The Phorm system allows BT to track
and monitor every website that a user visits. BT puts this information into a database and is then able to insert its own advertising onto web pages
that is targeted specific to those users.
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16.12.2008O2 adds BT Openzone to iPhone access list
O2 has announced a deal with BT allowing iPhone customers to access the internet for free through BT Openzone premier Wi-Fi hotspots from 11 July. The
launch of the partnership coincides with the release of the new iPhone 3G, but will be available to all iPhone customers.
BT Openzone has
around 3,000 hotspots across the UK, including 13 BT wireless city centres and locations such as coffee shops, railway stations, airport lounges,
motorway service stations and marinas. The iPhone automatically selects the fastest available network, preferring Wi-Fi over 3G as it generally
provides a much faster connection.
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16.06.2008Phorm shares plummet due to BT putting them on hold
Phorm, the controversial online advertising company, has watched its share prices plummet by 40 percent as BT made announcements that they had "taken
a step out of Phorm". Although BT stated they were still interested in Phorm, the news of them taking a step back dropped their share price to 270p,
according to an article by the BBC. Although Phorm collects no personal data (including IP addresses), it has been criticised due to the way it
stores copies of the pages a user visits, and later uses these in order to provide the user with relevant advertising.
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07.07.2009BT to Pump £1.5bn into Broadband
BT has announced plans to bring 40% of homes in the UK within reach of high speed fibre optic broadband by the year 2012.
In a £1.5bn
investment plan, the telco has also stated that it will be putting fibre-optic cable into 1 million homes directly, making services to these customers
even faster.BT has put the pressure on Ofcom however, stating that these changes will only be made if the regulator allows it to get a decent return
on its investment.
Customers not within the 1 million lucky homes would still be offered broadband between 40 and 60 megabits per second BT
has said. There was no figure given for users within the 1 million households.
In order to pay for the project BT has said it will suspend
its £2.5bn share buy-back programme in July - by which time it will have returned more than £1.8bn.
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15.07.2008BT hamstrings Home Hub hackers
BT has filled a security hole in its Home Hub service which could allow hackers to take control of the internet router. The company has bypassed the
problem by removing the Remote Assistance feature that allows BT admin staff to take control of the device. "As part of BT’s commitment to
protect its customers against internet security threats, the Remote Assistance feature within the BT Home Hub Manager software is being
deactivated," an official BT statement said.
"The removal of this feature, which is not required for normal operation of the Hub,
does not impair any BT Total Broadband services and will not affect other PC-based remote access applications or remote upgrades." Home Hub users
clicking on a specially crafted link could have allowed a malicious user to bypass the administrator password procedure.
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22.10.2007BT home router wide open to hijackers
If you rely on BT for high-speed internet or VoIP, there's a good chance a pair of UK-based researchers know how to enable a backdoor in your router
that leaves you wide open to eavesdropping, caller spoofing and other nasty attacks.
The vulnerability resides in the BT Home
Hub, one of the UK's most popular home routers, according to Adrian Pastor and Petko D. Petkov. A constellation of bugs in the router, which is made
by Thomson/Alcatel, make it possible to bypass the device's password authentication system and gain complete administrative control.
All an attacker needs to do to exploit the weaknesses is lure the victim to a maliciously crafted website, according to
this post on the GNUCitizen blog. The exploit
doesn't require knowledge of the administrator password.
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09.10.2007BT Openzone to end The Cloud partnership
BT Openzone has written to its customers today to inform them that as of 9am on Thursday 2nd October, customers will no longer have access to The
Cloud Wi-Fi Network.
"It’s a decision we haven’t made lightly. While we know this affects the Wi-Fi coverage you might be used
to, or hotspots you regularly visit, the great news is that because the availability of Wi-Fi from BT has grown significantly in the past year, we
don’t think you’ll be too disadvantaged" BT said in an email to customers.
BT doesn't give a reason for killing off the
partnership and there is no information available on BT Openzone's site or The Cloud.
According to BT "You’ll still have access
to 3,000 BT Openzone hotspots across the UK and Ireland, and thousands of roaming partner hotspots managed by iBAHN, T-Mobile UK and KeConnect.
Don’t forget that you can continue to use your account in hotspots such as 330 Caffè Nero stores and over 500 hotels including Hilton,
Thistle, Ramada, Forestdale, Corus and Welcome Breaks in the UK alone! This combined with international roaming partner agreements gives you access to
over 40,000 hotspots worldwide".
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26.09.2008BT bundles MS Office with Linux laptop
This week's award for the Most Astutely Selected Software Bundle goes to BT after the teleco tried to hook potential purchasers of Asus'
Linux-running Eee PC 900 by offering to ship it with a copy of Microsoft Office. BT is offering the 20GB 900 for £335.99, but if anyone out
there is willing to buy it for £422.34, the telco will include a copy of Office Home and Student in the box.
This despite the fact
that, just a little way further down the page, BT's list of Eee specifications admits that the elfin laptop is not "Office ready". And BT's
generosity is as extensive as its ability to select software suitable for the miniature machine. Buying the bundle saves each punter a whopping
£1.76 on the cost of purchading the two products separately - which of course Linux Eee buyers are queueing up to do.
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29.04.2008BT Release Details of Fibre Optic Rollout
If you receive your broadband through either of the following exchanges, now's a good time to start getting excited. BT have announced that
Muswell Hill, London, and Whitchurch, South Glamorgan will be the first two opperational exchanges in their Fibre to the Cabinet ( FTTC ) scheme.
The exchanges will be run by Openreach, and will be available on a wholesale basis to all other UK communication providers, hence reaching the
public almost as soon as the scheme goes live. Although this is a fibre scheme, the cables only run to the exchange - the final stretch from exchange
to home will still use copper wires. This will still leave users with a pretty hefty (by UK standards, anyway!) 40mbps connection.
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14.10.2008BT questioned by police over Phorm trials
British police are currently questioning the company in order to determine whether it's trials of Phorm (both past and planned) are actually
illegal.
This is not the first time that BT have been caught short when it comes to Phorm -
earlier on in the year,
they simply "forgot to mention" the potentially illegal trials to the Home Office.
A police spokeswoman stated that "City of London
Police has not launched a criminal investigation in connection with this matter. We are establishing if any criminal offence has been committed". She
declined to comment on whether or not it was likely that BT face criminal proceedings over the trials. BT didn't see fit to comment on the case
either, however, they appear to have stated their intentions to continue with future Phorm implementations, even if it has the potential to
upset the EU.
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09.09.2008New Phorm trial begins
BT has restarted its
Phorm trial despite huge privacy concerns.
The Phorm system
allows BT to track and monitor every website that a user visits. BT puts this information into a database and is then able to insert its own
advertising onto web pages that is targeted specific to those users. The system has caused an outrage amongst privacy advocates and the City of London
police recently
cleared BT of any
wrongdoing in its secret trials.
The latest experiment which was delayed due to privacy concerns will affect up to 10,000 users over a 4
week period.
The WebWise system that Phorm has built could have access to details of every website that customers visit, as well as every
internet search they conduct and other personal information.
It's rumored that Phorm is in talks with other UK broadband ISPs,
including Virgin Media and TalkTalk.
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30.09.2008British ISPs Offer Free Wi-Fi
BT Group PLC is turning to its own broadband subscribers to help crack a nut that many governments and service providers have struggled with:
Widespread Wi-Fi access.
The U.K.'s biggest broadband provider will equip about 2 million subscribers' broadband routers with
software from Fon Technology SL that lets them share part of their Internet bandwidth with the other Fon "members" nearby. BT hopes subscribers will
take advantage of the free offer and make Wi-Fi available in many suburban areas, complementing the hotspots and central-city hot zones BT has built
around the country.
Fon provides special Wi-Fi routers and software that let people create two separate networks: a secure one
for their own use and an open one for anyone within range. Anyone who does this becomes a member of the Fon "community" and can access the Internet
on any other member's public connection. The company already has deals with carriers in its native Spain as well as France, the U.S. and other
countries, in which subscribers can share their connections. The arrangement with BT offers Fon's biggest potential customer base yet.
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07.10.2007BT Vision offers free movie downloads
Vision is making three films available for download free of charge, provided that the viewer is prepared to watch advertisements. Mischief Night,
Played and The Punk Rock Movie can be downloaded and viewed using an associated media player developed by Hiro Media. The player will show adverts
from The AA, Norwich Union and Territorial Army, among others, during breaks in the films.
Antony Carbonari, interactive and commercial
media director at BT Vision, said: "We believe that sympathetically placed targeted advertising, combined with a viral film-sharing capability,
will be attractive to customers in conjunction with free or reduced prices." The viewer also has to give some demographic information which the
player uses to personalise the advertising.
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06.12.2007Wi-fi sharing plan launched in UK
BT has backed a global wireless sharing service called Fon, touting it as the " world's largest wi-fi community " since it lets people share a
"small portion" of their home broadband connection by opening up a separate secure channel on their wireless router. The firm's three million
broadband customers will be able to share their wi-fi with others in the Fon community, giving Fon users broadband access when in range of another
community member's hotspot. BT's scheme with Spanish firm Fon will boost the 500,000-strong community of users around the world and add to the
existing 190,000 Fon hotspots. Joining the BT Fon scheme is free of charge and community members will also have free access to existing BT hotspots in
its Openzone network.
Gavin Patterson, BT Group's managing director, said the plan was to create " the people's network of wi-fi, that
could one day cover every street in Britain. If they are prepared to securely share a little of their broadband, they can share the broadband at
hundreds of thousands of Fon and BT Openzone hotspots today, without paying a penny ."
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05.10.2007Want Windows 7 Beta 1? Here's what you have to do...
PDC attendees got the Windows 7 pre-beta build, and Microsoft told them that a public beta would be available in early 2009. But you don't want to
wait until then, right? You want Beta 1, right now. Well, I can't give you that, but I can tell you how you can get your hands on a physical copy
of the Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. You'll need $100 and a desire to visit one of the upcoming episodes of the MSDN Developer Conference (MDC).
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04.12.2008Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN! Image Courtesy: MSDN
Blogs It is not sure whether it is available now or will be available soon, but you get the word. MSDN subscribers would be lucky enough to get hold
of Windows 7 beta. If you are a MSDN subsriber, can you see Windows 7 listed in there already?
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08.01.2009Reminder: Windows 7 beta download ends this week
Just a reminder to everyone that as we reported earlier, the general availability of Windows 7 Beta program is ending this week. Starting from Feb
10th (12am Pacific Time), there wont be any new downloads of Windows 7 beta available, and from Feb 12th (9am Pacific Time), no downloads of Windows 7
beta will be available. If you are already downloading your beta, better complete the download before Feb 12th! So, if you haven't yet started
your download or yet registered for Windows 7 Beta, then this is the right time. Download your beta here before it ends!
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