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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available
Today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2, the command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity and control of system administration.
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27.9.2006 Windows Vista RC2 Comes Friday
According to Paul Thurrot, Microsoft plans to ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista this Friday. Unexpectedly, Microsoft will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
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3.10.2006 Windows 7 Build 7200 RC2
Wzor confirmed that Windows 7 build RC2 is true. We are just going to assume that RC2 = RTM earlier it was rumored that build 7200 = RC2 and Build 7300 = RTM.
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31.5.2009 Windows Vista RC2 - Build 5744
Microsoft has accidently left details on how RC2 will be distributed.
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5.10.2006 Windows Vista RC2 Release Imminent
A public download page for Windows Vista RC2 has been located hosting a new build number (5744).
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5.10.2006 Microsoft: There Is Only One Windows XP SP3 RC2
While Microsoft has already finished building Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1/RTM, the development of Windows XP Service Pack 3 continues with the finishing line still at a distance.
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29.2.2008 Windows 7 RC2 build 7200 is about to release
Why Windows 7 RC2 build 7200? Because Windows 7 is in the RC phase. The Vista RC and XP RC, few years ago, didn't include new functions.
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31.5.2009 Screenshots of Windows 7 Build 7225 RC2
Windows 7 Build 7225 is confirmed by our favourite source Wzor. Wzor posted the screenshots of build 7225 and the complete string is 6.1.7225.0.winmain.090529-2022.
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2.6.2009 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 Windows Vista RC2 build 5744 DOWNLOAD
This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability – improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1. We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2 build 5744. Thank you to our beta testers for the bugs and feedback you submitted for RC1.
First screenshot available.
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6.10.2006 New Windows XP SP3 RC2 Build 3311 Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was released following the RTM of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 in the first week of February.
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25.2.2008 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refreshed and Re-Released!
A new version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available for download today, February 27, 2008.
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27.2.2008 10 expert tips and tweaks for Windows Vista RC2
Click on the links for the full tweak
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30.10.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2, RC1 and RC2 set to expire
On 31 May 2007, all Customer Preview Program (CPP) pre-release versions of Windows Vista will expire. If you are running a pre-release version of Windows Vista (Beta 2, RC1 or RC2), you will begin to receive warning notifications about the upcoming expiration on 18 May.
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25.4.2007 Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 RC2 Download
That's right! Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available for download and you can grab it right here.
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20.2.2008 Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2 improves networking
Although news of this release is already a couple of days old, new features in Service Pack 3 RC2 for Windows XP that users can expect from this package includes: stronger networking protocols with black hole router detection, and Network Access Protection, with Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) that was provided for in Windows Vista.
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22.2.2008 Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
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6.10.2006 Microsoft Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744 - 16384 Released
Microsoft has released Windows Vista Build 5744 on connect!
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6.10.2006 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2
This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
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6.6.2008Windows Vista RC2 - Build 5744
Microsoft has accidently left
details on how RC2 will be
distributed.
The
company has a CPP for RC2
ready for the download to be
distributed shortly. It's not
clear exactly when RC2 will be
released but rumours point
towards a release this
week.
The build is
5744 and is expected to be the
last released to testers
before RTM. Testers are hoping
for the new sounds, refined
aero glass and bootscreen in
this build.
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05.10.2006Windows Vista RC2 Set for Release
A Portugese-language blog post
from a member of the Windows
Local Test and Support team in
Brazil Wednesday, along with a
download page on Microsoft's
Web site confirmed that
Windows Vista RC2 is arriving
shortly, and will be available
for public download...
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05.10.2006Vista RC2 Out, Last Build Before RTM
As expected, Microsoft on
Friday issued the second
release candidate of Windows
Vista - the last public build
before the next-generation
operating system is released
to manufacturing. As with the
interim build before it, RC2
will be available to a limited
number of CPP participants...
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07.10.2006Windows Vista RC2 available to CPP Customers
This just in from Nick White
on the Windows Vista Team
Blog, thanks to betax
for the heads up.
I
encourage you to download and
install Windows Vista RC2.
We're almost finished with
Windows Vista - RTM is almost
here. Submit as many bugs as
you can as we continue to work
hard toward shipping.
Windows Vista RC2 is now
available to Customer Preview
Program participants for a
limited time . If you're
in the CPP use these links to
access RC2:
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07.10.2006Windows XP SP3 RC2 Standalone Packages Available (English, German, Japanese)
Note that this is the same exact build (3311) Microsoft previously released as a Windows Update only download
last week.
Microsoft is allowing Windows XP
Service Pack 2 machines to be offered Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 via Windows Update. You may also download standalone update
packages for Windows XP SP3 RC2, in English, German, and/or Japanese. Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be offered on Windows Update when Service Pack 3
releases in the first half of 2008.
Windows Service Pack 2 is required in order to install this preview. Please uninstall any
previous beta release of Service Pack 3 before installing SP3 RC2.
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28.02.2008Trojan, 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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23.12.2008Windows Vista RC2 This Friday
Thanks to Paul Thurrott for
the details:
Microsoft this Friday will
ship the final pre-release
version of Windows Vista and,
unexpectedly, will name the
release as Release Candidate 2
(RC2). Previously, Microsoft
had publicly asserted that it
would not ship an RC2
milestone release of Windows
Vista. But don't let the name
fool you: RC2 is really just a
standard interim build of
Vista and will not be given
out to millions of users as
was RC1.
The RC2
build is 5743, and Microsoft
is currently testing it
internally. As with the
previous interim build, 5728,
RC2 will be given out to beta
testers, MSDN and TechNet
subscribers, and a random,
limited selection of Consumer
Preview Program (CPP) members.
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03.10.2006Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading
Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches
at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on
Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was
posted the following day.
As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed
on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300
"leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according
to users commenting on the site.
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03.11.2008Microsoft Pulls Vista RC2 Public Download
On Monday, just two days after
making Release Candidate 2
(RC2) of Windows Vista
available to the public
through the Customer Preview
Program (CPP), Microsoft
pulled the download,
confounding many users who
were hoping to get the last
public prerelease version of
the product.
But
despite rumors of problems,
Microsoft says its removal of
RC2 was all part of the
plan.
"Windows
Vista RC2 was an interim
release distributed for the
purposes of final testing by a
limited audience," a
Microsoft representative told
me late yesterday. "Once that
limit was reached and the
necessary feedback was
collected from the CPP
audience, Microsoft closed the
site. For now, Windows Vista
RC1 remains the primary
version for distribution and
ongoing use."
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13.10.2006"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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28.09.2007Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refresh Available
A new "Refresh" version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available Tuesday on Microsoft Update, according to Microsoft
representatives.
The primary goal of the release is for its developers to validate improvements to the Windows Update procedure, but a
couple of minor additions were also included. As with the previous RC2, you need to download and run a small program available from Microsoft Download
Center that makes a registry change on your PC in order for the update to be offered.
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26.03.2008Controversy 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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03.08.2007Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2 via Windows Update (Public Availability Program)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available to the public. Specific registry settings will allow you to be offered SP3 via Windows
Update.
Download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key
on your system. The registry key is required for Windows Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2.
Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key.
Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta.
It is
recommended that you apply the resulting update package to an activated, genuine copy of Windows XP, in a test environment. As with any pre-release
software, it is also recommended that you back up files and settings on your machine before applying this update package.
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20.02.2008Windows Server 2008 RC2 Unlikely - Source
Windows Server 2008 is now close enough to being released to manufacturing that it's unlikely Microsoft will issue a third release candidate for the
long awaited OS, according to a source close to the company.
Windows Server 2008 is currently in RTM "escrow," which means that
the product team thinks the code is good to go but wants to tinker with it just a bit longer, said a source close to Microsoft, who requested
anonymity. "There may very well not be an RC2," said the source.
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12.01.2008NVIDIA ForceWare Release 95 for Vista RC2
On Tuesday, NVIDIA released
the following WHQL certified
drivers for use with Windows
Vista RC2 that will enable you
to test the basic features and
capabilities of the new
Windows operating system.
Release Highlights:
- These drivers are
only compatible with Windows
Vista RC2 build 5744 and
higher, and should not be used
with other versions of Windows
Vista.
- Includes the
new NVIDIA Control Panel.
Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel
website for more
information.
- Includes
OpenGL driver for
compatibility
testing.
- Improved
application compatibility and
performance.
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18.10.2006Steal 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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30.12.2007Windows 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. So it's hardly surprising that now -just a few
days later, the full naked DVD image has started to show up on a few torrent sites. Most have been verified as fake and removed, and while we
haven't been able to verify for ourselves if indeed the milestone has been leaked to the pirating community, it sure is stirring up a lot of
interest in the past 24hrs!
Developing..
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