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Re: Unable to try to download it, it was busy and now I am unable
Well, it is all Beta, so the Opera-blocking protocals haven't been finalized...
"Ron Miller" wrote:
> Here's an interesting twist. I got NOwhere by trying to use either IE7
> or Firefox for the Beta-2 download. A friend told me to try Opera.
> Using the latest version of Opera, I pasted the link from the email MS
> sent me with the product key. Lo and behold, I was taken to a DIFFERENT
> MS page, which others on this forum have described, but I'd certainly
> never seen it with Firefox or IE7. It had links for downloading either
> x86 or x64 via Akami Download Manager and corresponding links for
> downloading with "your own download manager." Since Opera has a
> built-in DM, I clicked the link to download the 32-bit version with my
> own DM, and it started downloading immediately at 360KBs. It hasn't
> slowed down yet, and I have 35% of the download completed in less than
> 50 minutes. I don't know how far it will continue, but after about 200
> fruitless tries to get the download started with IE and Firefox and then
> getting it on the FIRST TRY with Opera, I'd say there's something
> strange going on here. Toto, I don't think we're in Redmond any more.
>
> Conclusion: if you're frustrated with the download, give Opera a try.
> It certainly can't hurt anything.
>
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