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Adin · **Post subject:** Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sun May 29, 2011 6:05 am

As many of you know Microsoft has an old abandonware/discontinued FTP server ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
Unfortunately it has not been updated in quite a few years.

yksoft1 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 3:24 am

You'd better download everything from that FTP as the content may be removed in any time..
Apple once have a similar FTP for about 10 years however they suddenly removed all content in that in 2010..

zamadatix · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 3:35 am

yksoft1 wrote:

You'd better download everything from that FTP as the content may be removed in any time..
Apple once have a similar FTP for about 10 years however they suddenly removed all content in that in 2010..

This content is mirrored by many collectors, it's well known and been posted here before (and lacks any interesting content at all iirc).

yksoft1 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:46 am

zamadatix wrote:

yksoft1 wrote:

You'd better download everything from that FTP as the content may be removed in any time..
Apple once have a similar FTP for about 10 years however they suddenly removed all content in that in 2010..

This content is mirrored by many collectors, it's well known and been posted here before (and lacks any interesting content at all iirc).

The final full MPW, many sample code and SDK for classic Mac OS were once available on Apple's ftp.apple.com...
There is an incomplete copy of Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 for NT on ftp.microsoft.com..

AttackedbyGlitch · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:51 am

yksoft1 wrote:

You'd better download everything from that FTP as the content may be removed in any time..
Apple once have a similar FTP for about 10 years however they suddenly removed all content in that in 2010..

mirror:http://mirrors.vanadac.com/ftp.apple.com

martysmarty · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:56 am

If anyone is ever interested, we've got a complete mirror of the MS ftp site, which will be maintained for many many years, even if the official ftp goes offline. Send me PM if you need something in the future

mspeter97 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:26 am

wow so they have an FTP,
got to check this out

DeFacto · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:46 am

mspeter97 wrote:

wow so they have an FTP,
got to check this out

Pretty much every big company has one... Mostly for internal access, old/abandoned stuff, or just junk...

myzia · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:33 pm

Wow why don't they take it down? I am downloading stuff off of it now.

DeFacto · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:36 pm

Because it's pre-historic and no one cares what you download? 8-)

Ahmed Jebara · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:40 pm

myzia wrote:

Wow why don't they take it down? I am downloading stuff off of it now.

FYI we already have package of what is included in MSLFILES on our FTP Server. I think those are the most important ones in the FTP and other directories are just KBs.

Adin · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:39 am

Why do they have KB articles on that FTP server?

dans34 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:29 pm

they are old KB articles , from the win 2 era

Izareus · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:21 am

Are there any OSes in that FTP?

trustBA · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:53 pm

Izareus wrote:

Are there any OSes in that FTP?

No, just only service packs.

Taringa · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:27 pm

thanks, goes straight to my virtual pc

Dean235 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:36 am

I just found this out a few weeks ago! just typed in ftp.microsoft.com then it came up with that! But it had loads of programs and stuff!

mycomputerhelp · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Sun May 06, 2012 5:02 pm

i downloaded everything off it, and i ran some windows stuff in w95b

3155ffGd · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 3:29 am

The FTP server seems to be gone forever now. No matter what I do, I cannot connect to it at all.

startmenuisgone · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 4:58 pm

Yep thats sad too. I remember when i first seen this server back in the day. I did have everything off of it, but now, its gone.

It was like 75GB or more if i remember of space it took up.

My thought is they might of shut it down finally to make up more room on servers for new Windows releases, since that was all stuff for Windows 1.0-98 anyways and never was used, but was still turned on all those years.

linuxlove · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 5:06 pm

startmenuisgone wrote:

My thought is they might of shut it down finally to make up more room on servers for new Windows releases, since that was all stuff for Windows 1.0-98 anyways and never was used, but was still turned on all those years.

Except that they have lots of servers on campus worldwide and in lots of datacenters, and don't forget all the contract hosting!

startmenuisgone · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Mon May 07, 2012 5:51 pm

linuxlove wrote:

startmenuisgone wrote:

My thought is they might of shut it down finally to make up more room on servers for new Windows releases, since that was all stuff for Windows 1.0-98 anyways and never was used, but was still turned on all those years.

Except that they have lots of servers on campus worldwide and in lots of datacenters, and don't forget all the contract hosting!

True. Actually funny now i think, right after MYCOMPUTERHELP Downloaded everything from it, they might of shut it down by the time 3155ffGd did. Hmmmm...

john11 · Last edited by john11 on Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

AdinK wrote:

As many of you know Microsoft has an old abandonware/discontinued FTP server ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
Unfortunately it has not been updated in quite a few years.

Ah, I remember when I found this out by typing in ftp.microsoft.com into filezilla. I thought it was pretty cool, but soon figured out theres not much interesting stuff in there (at least I didn't find it interesting at the time).

Oh wow, just realised its gone.

I wanted to check whats on there. I guess there's some mirror somewhere...

Quote:

Status: Resolving address of ftp.microsoft.com
Status: Connecting to 64.4.30.33:21...
Status: Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server".
Error: Could not connect to server

Maybe its offline for maintainence? Updates? Since it was still available 21 Apr 2012 03:46:58 GMT as some files are available in Google Cache.

AttackedbyGlitch wrote:

Apple once have a similar FTP for about 10 years however they suddenly removed all content in that in 2010..

mirror:http://mirrors.vanadac.com/ftp.apple.com[/quote]

That mirror seems to be offline also...

GL1zdA · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 9:18 am

john11 wrote:

Maybe its offline for maintainence? Updates? Since it was still available 21 Apr 2012 03:46:58 GMT as some files are available in Google Cache.

If it's down I have a mirror of bussys, developr, ResKit and Softlib - 8GB of stuff. If the server will be permanently down I will upload it to our FTP. If it's up again I would suggest making a mirror should on the betaarchive FTP.

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: Old MS FTP Server **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 11:29 am

GL1zdA wrote:

john11 wrote:

Maybe its offline for maintainence? Updates? Since it was still available 21 Apr 2012 03:46:58 GMT as some files are available in Google Cache.

If it's down I have a mirror of bussys, developr, ResKit and Softlib - 8GB of stuff. If the server will be permanently down I will upload it to our FTP. If it's up again I would suggest making a mirror should on the betaarchive FTP.

Wish I had the quota to make personal mirrors of things. As a matter of fact I think I need another external hard drive, my 1TB is getting pretty full. But yes, if there is interesting stuff I think there will be quite a few interested (although most would probably already have it all).

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