How is RC2 a public download?

How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
offering to download RC1 as a download

Hi Randy,
Go to this site.


http://download.windowsvista.com/pre...n/download.htm
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Paul


"Randy H" wrote:

> How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
> offering to download RC1 as a download
>
>

Hi Paul,

How were you directed to that URL?

Was that in an email you got from MS?


"PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Randy,
> Go to this site.
>
>
> http://download.windowsvista.com/pre...n/download.htm
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "Randy H" wrote:
>
>> How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
>> offering to download RC1 as a download
>>
>>

I'd say it was from reading posts. I saw posts as early as Friday giving the link.

Keep reading newsgroups and you'll find these links

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"Randy H" <RHollaw@HOTmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Paul,
>
> How were you directed to that URL?
>
> Was that in an email you got from MS?
>
>
> "PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:954DB112-F07F-44FF-B255-1FF575A26F22@microsoft.com...
>> Hi Randy,
>> Go to this site.
>>
>>
>> http://download.windowsvista.com/pre...n/download.htm
>> --
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> "Randy H" wrote:
>>
>>> How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
>>> offering to download RC1 as a download
>>>
>>>
>

That's sort of my point.

If wasn't for a couple of ppl posting actual file names (here and on their
livespaces pages) how else would one find these downloads?

Of course it was easy to change the URL from /rc1/ to /rc2/ and bam you have
the link. But was the link actually made public?

Not that I really care, just curious about how it's getting leaked when MS
itself is still offering RC1 and not RC2 to download. Nor have I gotten any
email to invite me to a download.

So before I post my thoughts about RC2, I want to make sure I've haven't
done anything illegal.

Just my two cents.
Randy

"danbrown" wrote:

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> I'd say it was from reading posts. I saw posts as early as Friday giving
> the link.
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If I'm not wrong MS retired RC2 of public download.
They delay just 3 days....

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"Randy H" <RHollaw@HOTmail.com> wrote in message
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> How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
> offering to download RC1 as a download

Build 5744 was supposed to be released to a limited number of CCP testers not everyone but its hard to stop once the URL is leaked. The Public build is still RC1

They pulled the site again.

"Randy H" <RHollaw@HOTmail.com> wrote in message
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> How is RC2 a public download? When i go to MS's website, they are still
> offering to download RC1 as a download

What is the point of only releasing RC2 to a limited group? If this is the
last release before RTM, wouldn't they want as many folks hammering at the
code as possible? I've been running RC1 and like it but would love to see
what's been fixed with RC2. RC2 should be availible to everyone who has been
already running and testing Vista....

"danbrown" wrote:

>
> Build 5744 was supposed to be released to a limited number of CCP
> testers not everyone but its hard to stop once the URL is leaked. The
> Public build is still RC1
>
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