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What!? Office 2K7 Beta costs money

Postby augie on Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:14 pm

OK, it's not a big deal for the price, $1.50/download, it's just the thought that I'd have to pay for a Beta. :confused This came from MS Canada in an e-mail. Here's the URL if anyone's interested.

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Postby coreyw2000 on Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:26 pm

They hit their download limit, I think it was like 100 thousand. So now they are charging for the download.
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Postby augie on Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:40 pm

coreyw2000 wrote:They hit their download limit, I think it was like 100 thousand. So now they are charging for the download.


I can understand that but why go to a third party to do it for you? :confused Oh well, so be it. Maybe they can't be bothered to give dl's.

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Postby SonicSpeed on Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:15 pm

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... I found the free link from M$

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Postby JMacalinao on Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:15 am

That's the technical refesh update which means, you have to install the beta first, before you install this one.
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Postby Synaptic on Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:37 am

I downloaded B2TR the other day- and then proceeded to try and find the B2 installer which I must have wiped when I ran out of HDD space (very stupid) so now I am completely stuffed (well, perhaps not completely)
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Postby kd1966 on Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:23 am

JMacalinao wrote:That's the technical refesh update which means, you have to install the beta first, before you install this one.


I just read in the NG's where some guy had totally wiped all his O2k7b2 ISO's thinking they were corrupted or something, and downloaded the b2TR, then uninstalling all his Office 2K7b2 products and trying to install the B2TR....... :eek:
He ended up spending <$10 to redownload the Office files............ but all that time wasted :dontgetit
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Postby Grav!ty on Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:17 am

Hehehe I made the same mistake but I had Beta 2 on my backup drive so at least didn't have to download it again.
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Postby imnuts on Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:27 pm

if you're in the managed beta program, you should be able to download beta 2 for free from betaplace using the file transfer manager. unfortunately, it's only for those that are in the managed beta.
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