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WhoAmI : Beta is not the beta ???

<Update>This post doesn't make any sense at all. Read here if you want to know why</Update>

Yesterday I had run wild in enthousiasm to see the beta available on MSDN downloads. Installed the thing and you know what ? The setup installs the May preview, the 40426 build......

Peter

Published Jul 04 2004, 02:51 PM by pvanooijen

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Frans Bouma said:

They had some serious issues in the beta so it was pulled last week. (these issues were not in the code that's in the Express setups). I think to test out the .NET technology it's wise to get the express installs and check for the beta next week.

# July 4, 2004 11:57 AM

Peter van Ooijen said:

Up till yesterday MSDN downloads featured two versions of VS 2005 : the march and the may preview. Yesterday both were gone and the beta appeared to be there. Complete with description and the image is named en_vs_2005_dvd_beta1.img.

The setup made had me a little confused. The titles of the setup pages mix May-preview with beta 1. And the setup results in the may preview.

I knew they had a problem with the beta. They also have very big problem with "communicating" that.

# July 4, 2004 1:46 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Frans, interesting, any info on what the issues were? I have the beta installed on a machine here and haven't found any major issues.

# July 4, 2004 4:34 PM

Peter's Gekko said:

It was to weird to be true

# July 6, 2004 3:06 AM

Wesner Moise said:

The build that I downloaded from MSDN last week is 40607.

# July 6, 2004 4:28 AM

Peter van Ooijen said:

OK I started a new download. This time it's going to take me longer,more people seem to be downloading.
Maybe I was just unlucky and hit something outdated in a cache ???

Weird...

# July 6, 2004 5:11 AM

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