View topic - Microsoft trial CD's anyone?! - Windows, Apple, Application, Abandonware and Game Beta Downloads/Repository

___ · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:59 am

would you like to share that beta?

Chris-h11 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:44 pm

Thats a nice collection CDs you got there

joecool · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:00 am

Here is my Collection of MS-Products:

my Beta's

my Trials

my Retail's

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:10 am

Wow, nice collection you have there. You have many original MS beta CDs as well, a fact I like very much. My betas are mostly downloads from Connect or CDs from MSDN, but not, well, "real" beta CDs with a nice logo and that stuff, just standard MSDN/TechNet ones with an according label, but otherwise they look like a bog-standard MSDN/TechNet disk.

A question: Where did you get the WinXP Pro evaluation kits? I'd love to get one as well. It can't have been released with XP's launch as yours already has SP1 in it.

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:16 am

WOAH!!! Where did you get all the trials from? I haven't seen quite a few of those packs? Also, where did you get the betas? Were you a beta tester for all of those products, or did you get them from somewhere else after the beta was finished?

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:19 am

Same question, I only got trials for Windows 2000 and Server 2003, none for XP and Office and stuff. A really great collection.

Beta Freak · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:21 am

You have a load of stuff there.
Have you got links to the trials?
Edit: Link to mine

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:31 am

It seems the WinXP trials could have come from the Technical Reference, but I don't really know.

___ · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:27 am

nice collection

joecool · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:47 am

most of the Trials i get from MS-Austria and some from MS-Netherlands!
MS-Austria had a free Trial-Orderpage until June 2006. But now they take the site offline

For the Office 2003-Trials, MS-USA had a special Trial-request Page for free in Year 2004!
The SmallBusinessServer-Kit's i got in mass from MS-Germany for free

The Beta-CD's i got as Technical Betatester! (i'm Betatester for MS since year 1998

#Windows "NT5"
#Windows "Whistler" Client & Server
#Office 10
#Office 11
#Office12
# and many more :lol:

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:20 pm

Does this also cover the XP trials?

joecool · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:35 am

empireum wrote:

Does this also cover the XP trials?

they are also from MS-Austria

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:51 am

Were they all free then? The ones from MS UK are always free, but all the ones on a lot of the other MS sites (the US one is the main one I've looked at) you have to pay postage.

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:18 am

@joecool
All I can say is that you were a very lucky guy, then. I didn't even know about that...

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:42 am

empireum wrote:

@joecool
All I can say is that you were a very lucky guy, then. I didn't even know about that...

Me neither

I don't speak Dutch or German anyway, so wouldn't be able to find anything on MS Netherlands or Austria!

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:47 am

Well, German is my mother tongue (and I think I could make my way through a Dutch website if I have to because some of the words are quite similar to German words), but as the web site has been shut down, I don't think I'll have a chance to get them anymore. A possibility would be to get the Technical Reference for an OS because it usually includes a CD with a 120-day trial about this OS the reference is talking about.

Shrimp · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:38 am

The only reason I don't have any trials or betas on CD is because I usually like to download them, since I have a pretty fast connection speed it doesn't really take that long.

empireum · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:44 am

Same here... But having a genuine CD is more... genuine, in a way.

Shrimp · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:47 am

empireum wrote:

Same here... But having a genuine CD is more... genuine, in a way.

yea, I think i'm going to get some CDs instead of downloading them, atleast once, or maybe i'll do both just to have the CD and to have it quicker! :twisted:

Orry Verducci · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:05 am

A good collection you have there. The only trial CDs I have are for Office 2003 (and I also have one for Server 2003, but that was downloaded as an ISO and never burned to CD).

skeets · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:05 am

WOW - i really have alot of catching up to do.

AnDrEwP182 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:19 am

If i ordered those as a US resident I would have accumulated over $200 in shipping.

Beta Freak · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:47 am

Small Business Server+Frontpage and Outlook come in new packaging.
Pic 1
Pic 2

Andy · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:05 am

Beta Freak wrote:

Small Business Server+Frontpage and Outlook come in new packaging.
Pic 1
Pic 2

I was gonna post them this evening! :evil:

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:49 am

Andy wrote:

Beta Freak wrote:

Small Business Server+Frontpage and Outlook come in new packaging.
Pic 1
Pic 2

I was gonna post them this evening! :evil:

Hold on - what's this?! If I just order SBS from the same place as before eg Technet or the SBS page will they send this one now, instead of the old non-R2 one? It doesn't say R2 on the order page

Are they still including non-trial versiosn of the Office programs?

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