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Over the next few weeks? It's been over two weeks since this started! Seems to me that the only reason they're doing this is to have fewer consoles to update at once come the release day. It's a bit underwhelming :(

If the rumors are true the general release will be in 2 weeks so what's the point?

If the rumors are true the general release will be in 2 weeks so what's the point?

If you have a large enough group of people they'll only need 1 or 2 weeks of a preview to see if there are any major issues left. If there are any, well, they haven't announced a release date yet so they don't have to worry about delaying it. They'll just release it later. The preview isn't for you to have a good time getitng it way earlier than others, its to do a final stress test with a larger group of actual users. They probably aren't expecting any major issues and therefore don't need to allot much time to it.

Any news on this yet? They moved a lot quicker with the last preview program, once you were accepted it was like the first tuesday after you got immediate updates - we haven't even been asked for console id's yet.

Any news on this yet? They moved a lot quicker with the last preview program, once you were accepted it was like the first tuesday after you got immediate updates - we haven't even been asked for console id's yet.

You've got as much info as us: https://connect.microsoft.com/xboxliveupdate

Yeah, bummer.. nothing new :)

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Put the key in the xbox site, its queued, will have it downloaded when i get home. Hopefully ill get lucky like the last one and it update right away instead of the 3-5 days

Put the key in the xbox site, its queued, will have it downloaded when i get home. Hopefully ill get lucky like the last one and it update right away instead of the 3-5 days

It says that it's only recommended you redeem it on the console itself, hopefully it still works for you though.

Instructions: Redeem Code

Follow these instructions to redeem a code on your console. While there is a method to redeem the code via Xbox.com -- we highly recommend for this application you redeem it directly from your console per the instructions provided here.

It says that it's only recommended you redeem it on the console itself, hopefully it still works for you though.

yea i know it said recomend, but recomend is diffrent then required. so far worked fine. will find out when the update comes out

Doubtful. I don't think they'd give it at the end of the week. Likely early next week.

When I signed up it told me the update would be done in 1-2 business days...

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