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#1 Posted by tmaxxtigger on 20 Jun 2003 - 19:59

Man, I guess I'll have to wait, I'm sure their servers are going to get swamped also!

#2 Posted by SHoTTa35 on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:00

yeah, that's why they only did 15,000 i bet... offereing good speeds for 600,000 users is a crazy idea!

(1 reply) #3 Posted by creamhackered on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:01

Personally if this is true I find it an insult to those testers who aren't selected to recieve the update "early", how the hell can they select 15,000 testers out of 600,000.

#3.1 Posted by SHoTTa35 on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:53

there are 15,000 beta testers.. most of the rest are CPP people... they bought the preview... I maybe wrong but i thought there were only 15,000 beta testers total?

#4 Posted by xStainDx on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:01

I'm an official tester. I haven't gotten any email yet that anything is availible for download.

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#5 Posted by lwebster on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:07

Why not give it to just 15 people - that way they'd manage to piss even more of thier beta testers off!

#6 Posted by Tom Servo on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:08

Available? Where? If they talk about the Officeint site, then boohoo!

#7 Posted by dougkinzinger on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:09

dang...I'm not one of them yet it seems.

#8 Posted by SidVicious on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:18

I'm waiting...

#9 Posted by FuhrerDarqueSyde on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:19

i'm not one to get it either yet eh f00kin hell

(1 reply) #10 Posted by zero-one on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:23

I can wait. When the beta will come next week it´s not the end of the world

#10.1 Posted by Jason on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:25

At last one with a bit of patience

#11 Posted by Ki||er on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:52

I am a tester and I havent received anything yet either. I don't mind though as I will just wait my turn and download when the almight MS thinks I am worthy

#12 Posted by JnCoKiLLa on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:52

I would like to get a E-mail soon.. it would nice

#13 Posted by Tiburon on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:54

I was a tester for beta 1 and they didnt pick me :'(

(2 replies) #14 Posted by zero-one on 20 Jun 2003 - 20:54

edit

no comment

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#14.1 Posted by elhombre on 20 Jun 2003 - 21:03

You shouldn't do that Philipp!

#14.2 Posted by zero-one on 20 Jun 2003 - 21:23

why ?
i will edit it

#15 Posted by avifear on 20 Jun 2003 - 21:49

I wonder when will WinBeta release an AIO for this one...

#16 Posted by slang123 on 20 Jun 2003 - 21:55

i got a letter through the post today saying they havent got my email. wtf? they have been mailing me for months and i havent changed it

(2 replies) #17 Posted by reaper1576 on 20 Jun 2003 - 22:05

its only select few beta testers for the download at the moment

#17.1 Posted by finalcoolman on 20 Jun 2003 - 22:08

Only a few testers? 15,000 testers are all the beta testers. I wonder, the beta testers that were selected to recieve the refresh CDs, will the download option be available to them? Thanks.

#17.2 Posted by scyphe on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:44

wrong thread

(1 reply) #18 Posted by Unforgiven on 20 Jun 2003 - 22:50

lol M$, please stop teasing us already...
I mean those who are official testers...

#18.1 Posted by hobsgrg on 20 Jun 2003 - 22:54

i agree, for heavens sake microsoft just put it onto betaplace and let us official beta testers get our hands on it.

#19 Posted by longwilli on 20 Jun 2003 - 22:58

cant wait to get my hands on this version

(1 reply) #20 Posted by Razor_D on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:13

ITS OUT!!!

BETAPLACE HAS THE LINKS

--Raz

#20.1 Posted by hobsgrg on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:30

ur right! woohoo and about time too it also gives us beta testers a chance to try out visio 2003 as it also includes a full build of visio 2003, n1

(1 reply) #21 Posted by params on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:30

It's on my list at betaplace - am I really one of the lucky 15,000 or are they just trying to make us feel special

#21.1 Posted by CoolShady2002 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:49

All iep and oep testers have access to the build, the people who bought it currently do not.

(1 reply) #22 Posted by Razor_D on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:32

theres only 15,000 users with access to the technical beta (Betaplace ;P) the 600,000 is people who ordered the $20 kit.

#22.1 Posted by reaper1576 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:34

yeap me to and im getting my CD kit woot

#23 Posted by y_notm on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:32

damn my 56k connection, this is gonna take forever

especially since i can't get the MSFT to install!

"ERROR: Invalid Transfer Request"

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#24 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:39

http://www.betaplace.com/betaplace/source/...oadsrefresh.htm

(1 reply) #25 Posted by Razor_D on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:43

Betaplace is very slow and the download server(s) seem to be fluxuating a fair bit, anywhere between 50 and 130kb/sec

#25.1 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:45

me too

#26 Posted by Jason on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:44

DOWNLOADING

#27 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:46

it is build build 5329

#28 Posted by slang123 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:47

it says im not enrolled in the beta anymore? whats going on

#29 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:47

**Do not reply as this email is being sent to you from an un-monitored account. Due to Microsoft's current emphasis on security, the hyperlink(s) contained in this email may not automatically open your browser. If you experience any difficulty, please copy the link and paste into your browser. **





Email: xxxx

BetaID: xxxxx



Dear Valued Office 2003 Technical Beta Participant,



Important! Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Announcement



We are pleased to announce the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 Technical Refresh is now available. Go to www.betaplace.com and click on the Beta 2 Technical Refresh downloads link.



The Betaplace downloads page provides Beta 2 Technical Refresh patches for the Beta 2 build of Office 2003, Publisher 2003, FrontPage 2003, OneNote 2003 and InfoPath 2003. A Multilingual User Interface Pack refresh patch is also available. Refresh builds of Visio 2003 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003, as well as SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services are included as full file downloads.



The download and installation may be a several step process if you installed multiple applications from the ‘Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003’. Please review the Known Issues list on www.betaplace.com for help with setup and installation issues, as well as notes on other applications in the Beta 2 Technical Refresh.



When filing bugs, please note that a new product build “B2TR (build 5329)” has been entered in the product release field. In addition, Visio is now listed as a product in the product area field. A new newsgroup node has also been created in the o11iep and o11oep newsgroup trees for Visio related issues.



If you have questions or encounter problems please go to the appropriate Microsoft Office 2003 beta newsgroup (microsoft.beta.o11oep.xxxxx or microsoft.beta.o11iep.xxxx or for beta administration issues please email onetprp@microsoft.com.



If you need updates to other products, you may find them through the beta or trial evaluation programs specific to that product:



www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx

www.microsoft.com/exchange





Thank You,

The Microsoft Office System Team

#30 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:52

servers are getting loaded!!! 10kb while I'm on a 1mbit line

#31 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 20 Jun 2003 - 23:58

also survey available to order kit!!!

#32 Posted by Neo - Matrix on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:27

WoW Cool.

I've already posted that in portuguese

Check it out by clicking it Righ Now - Powered by Portal VOL

Portuguese Content

Also some screens of the download
www.portalvol.com

See ya

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#33 Posted by hobsgrg on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:31

dammit betaplace is getting seriously hammered, down to 10k a sec now and fluctuating a lot

#34 Posted by SidVicious on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:33

Downloading!

(2 replies) #35 Posted by I8PP on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:35

Ay carumba, betaplace is lagged to hell! Well...5 minutes later, it logs in.

#35.1 Posted by Neo - Matrix on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:40

WoW ... Ay carumba ... that r0x guy.

Neowin is the best - one day we put all M$ servers down when putting something like that.

#35.2 Posted by briangw on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:54

you want to see a stress test? Check out fark.com

#36 Posted by gam_EZ on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:43

i'm on a 1.5 Mbit line and I cant even get the page to load up!

(1 reply) #37 Posted by Jason on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:51

Servers are dead, this could take some time to download !!!

#37.1 Posted by SidVicious on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:53

Downloading @ 5 KB/Sec.

#38 Posted by GwaRGuITaR on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:53

my download died after its attempts
37% done

can't log back into betaplace.

#39 Posted by Liquid on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:53

eeeks i was half loaded then BOOM it stopped

(1 reply) #40 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 21 Jun 2003 - 00:54

servers are pretty down I think

#40.1 Posted by hobsgrg on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:01

yep seems to be totally dead now must of been overloaded with all of us in such a mad rush to get it

(4 replies) #41 Posted by Razor_D on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:00

Yup Lol

Bless em, lucky i got publisher/office downloaded before it did XD

takes over an hour to install though (thats with 512mb of ram) its a beefy mother

--Raz

#41.1 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:05

I think we are not allowed to, but maybe you can put the office patch on a mirror???

#41.2 Posted by creamhackered on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:32

Only took me 5mins to install, literally

#41.3 Posted by levijay on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:17

same

#41.4 Posted by rseiler on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:30

Probably more like 10 for me, but then I have a mid-level PIII system.

#42 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:00

Does anybody has it already downloaded??? can't they put up a mirror????????

(1 reply) #43 Posted by gam_EZ on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:15

how big are the files?

#43.1 Posted by JaggedFlame on 21 Jun 2003 - 01:45

Well, the refresh for Office alone is 135 MB.

#44 Posted by FuhrerDarqueSyde on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:12

booyah i am getting the package w00t yeah

#45 Posted by Avenger on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:34

Betaplace.com isn't even responding for me. "Cannot find server" is all I get, no matter how many times I refresh it. I guess MS seriously underestimated the demand for the Refresh and didn't allocate enought resources to cover for it.

#46 Posted by Tiburon on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:35

betaplace is teh dead right now

(6 replies) #47 Posted by dougkinzinger on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:40

Who's in charge of grammar here?? What's this "Microsoft have confirmed" crap on the main page? Did you guys PASS English? It would be "Microsoft HAS confirmed".

Jeepers!

#47.1 Posted by sonyman on 21 Jun 2003 - 02:53

"Microsoft have confirmed" as in Microsoft as a body of people. Looks like YOU are the one in need of a grammar course.

Scott

#47.2 Posted by JaggedFlame on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:08

Uh, no.

http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/rules.html

QUOTE

A collective noun takes a singular verb when the reference is to a group as a whole and a plural verb when the reference is to members of a group as single individuals.

#47.3 Posted by creamhackered on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:10

And I care because you do? Nah.

#47.4 Posted by avifear on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:11

LOL!

#47.5 Posted by dacris2000 on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:21

and speaking of bad grammar, note the use of a preposition at the end of the sentence: "...the matter is being dealt with."

#47.6 Posted by xluqe on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:46

But realy, who cares...
The most important is that we get the news

(1 reply) #48 Posted by Deepu Sudhakar on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:06

this is unfair! i was 95% of the way done!

#48.1 Posted by GwaRGuITaR on 21 Jun 2003 - 03:41

hahaha that sucks, man.

#49 Posted by FuhrerDarqueSyde on 21 Jun 2003 - 04:01

ARGH DAMN BETAPLACE DOWNAGE

#50 Posted by DJ Prem on 21 Jun 2003 - 04:23

Hope there is goning to be a CD for this as cant download this on a 56k

#51 Posted by oqwarrior on 21 Jun 2003 - 04:53

Posting this will probably make the servers go down again, but FYI:

BetaPlace is back up.

#52 Posted by FuhrerDarqueSyde on 21 Jun 2003 - 05:07

there is a CD request survey not in the todo list, check the office thing on beta place, the survey to request a cd is there

#53 Posted by dougkinzinger on 21 Jun 2003 - 06:18

it's back up now!! Downloading my refresh now!

#54 Posted by GwaRGuITaR on 21 Jun 2003 - 06:20

this f**ker takes forever to install...
*grumble*

#55 Posted by Radix on 21 Jun 2003 - 07:39

it's down

#56 Posted by params on 21 Jun 2003 - 07:48

indeed - set it going last night, went to bed - then got up this morning and it had died halfway through

#57 Posted by Radix on 21 Jun 2003 - 07:55

no other ways to get it???

#58 Posted by nookadum on 21 Jun 2003 - 08:53

got it, but took me a while on DSL though...

#59 Posted by HolgMan on 21 Jun 2003 - 09:10

anyone knows, when MSDN Subscribers will get the refresh?

#60 Posted by Mr magoo on 21 Jun 2003 - 09:28

shazam! Still not working dammit!

#61 Posted by j2000wall on 21 Jun 2003 - 10:22

Why isn't it at www.officebeta.microsoft.com download page, that just says there arn't any downloads, will it ever go there or is this a different kind of update?

(2 replies) #62 Posted by Unforgiven on 21 Jun 2003 - 11:07

QUOTE

Beta 2 Technical Refresh Downloads We are sorry, These downloads are temporarily unavailable and we are working to remedy the situation. Thank you for your patience.

#62.1 Posted by Germano on 21 Jun 2003 - 12:16

QUOTE

We are sorry, These downloads are temporarily unavailable and we are working to remedy the situation. Thank you for your patience.

When do they learn to use P2P to avoid these situations?
A private and secure P2P network isn't hard to setup... They even have a download client, just give it some Bit-Torrent features.

#62.2 Posted by neostyle on 21 Jun 2003 - 20:11

m$ is always a bit behind

(5 replies) #63 Posted by jwjw1 on 21 Jun 2003 - 11:08

its on the betaplace.com site...i finally downloaded the office refresh (134mb) and the Frontpage refresh (51mb) the rest can wait...cause now the site is down... Word is 11.5329.5329...Publisher and OneNote the same...

#63.1 Posted by IainH124A on 21 Jun 2003 - 12:26

How do i download the updates. Im in the Beta program but don't think ive got a BetaID for the BetaPlace site and i never received an email about the update. Will it be available to all users soon?

#63.2 Posted by AdamField on 21 Jun 2003 - 12:52

If you dont have a beta id or an email, then you're not on the beta program

#63.3 Posted by clonk on 21 Jun 2003 - 16:09

Yeah Iain what ever possibly made you think you were in the beta program if you are not sure if you have a betaID?

#63.4 Posted by IainH124A on 21 Jun 2003 - 20:54

I bought the Beta Kit from Microsoft a few months ago. Did i need to register it to receive updates?

#63.5 Posted by AdamField on 21 Jun 2003 - 21:18

If you bought the beta kit you have to wait until the refresh is made public via office update which wont be for another week or two...

#64 Posted by tmaxxtigger on 21 Jun 2003 - 12:16

If you have your downloads in the Transfer Manager, just start a different download to get the TM up, then you can resume your Tech Refresh downloads...!

#65 Posted by Germano on 21 Jun 2003 - 12:30

«You are a wonderfully dedicated group of committed testers and we thank you
for it! Many of you began downloading the Beta 2 Technical Refresh as soon
as you received the mail indicating it was available. We are very excited
about the Beta 2 Technical Refresh and are anxious to gather feedback from
you as you begin using the product!

Unfortunately, with 15,000 of you out there in the technical beta, and the
popularity of the Office 2003 beta product, demand has saturated the segment
of the network connecting to the Betaplace servers tonight. Our IT
operations team took the Betaplace servers offline sometime after midnight
PST in order to restore network performance across the impacted systems. We
have some other options for getting the Beta 2 Technical Refresh out to you
as soon as possible. But we need you to bear with us, as we must remove the
download content for a period of time in order to bring the Betaplace
servers back online and maintain network stability.

Thank you for your continued patience, we'll keep you updated on progress.
####### (MSFT)»

#66 Posted by ronaldinho2003 on 21 Jun 2003 - 13:31

If you had already started your download before Betaplace went down,
you can now continue the file transfer.
Just start
"C:WINDOWSDownloaded Program FilesTransferMgr.exe"
and you should be fine.

#67 Posted by