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 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 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 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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24.5.2006Windows 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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19.01.2006Windows 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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13.12.2005Beta 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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07.11.2008Joost 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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01.05.2007Want 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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12.01.2006Win 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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14.01.2006Do 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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26.04.2008Microsoft 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 Essentials Beta
Released
Microsoft finally released
today a beta version of its
Windows Live Essentials
service to all beta-testers
that subscribed to the beta
program.
The
point of Windows Live
Essentials is quite simple:
provide a simple way for users
to use the most important
Windows Live Services: Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
Mail desktop, Windows Live
Mail, Windows Live Spaces and
Windows Live Dashboard being
the included products as of
yet.
The website
is only available to people
using Internet Explorer 6, so
nothing has changed yet on
compatibility since the
preview, though it is said
that each release will bring
improvements to operating
system, language and web
browser support.
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06.09.2006Microsoft 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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14.05.2008Office 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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16.04.2009Get 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<
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13.07.2007PINNED: 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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01.03.2006Windows 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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19.07.2008Windows 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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17.01.2006Microsoft 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 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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17.04.2009'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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21.03.2008Sign Up for Windows Home Server Public Beta
Good news! Windows Home Server
has reached the Beta 2
milestone! While previous
releases have been tested by
1000+ Microsoft employees and
some of our hardware and
software partners, we are now
starting to invite a broader
group of external testers to
participate in Beta 2.
People that are
interested in participating in
Beta 2 can register
here so
we have their names as we
steadily expand the program.
We can't guarantee you'll be
invited to participate right
away (or at all), but if
you're interested get
yourself registered.
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