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June 12, 2006

Vista download via Bittorrent

With the massive popularity of the Beta 2 CPP of Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 downloading, Chris Pirillo and Jake Ludington have setup http://www.vistatorrent.com so you can download it using BitTorrent. Full instructions are on the site on how to download Vista Beta 2 with a BitTorrent application and the ISO download is signed with a MD5 hash signature so you can verify that you have the correct file after it has finished transferring. You still need an official installation key from Microsoft to get up and running which you can get from here. The site is also NOT endorsed by Microsoft.

Vista Team Blog - We are experiencing extremely high download demand at this time. The wait time to start the download is very long and many customers may be unable to access the download site. To guarantee participation in the Customer Preview Program (to receive both Beta 2 and RC1) we recommend you use the DVD kit order option above.

For more information ‘How to use BitTorrent ‘ you can read up on it from cw’s post here.

UPDATE: As expected Microsoft have issued Chris and Jake with a 'cease & decist'.

Posted by Stephen at June 12, 2006 03:28 PM

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Posted by: cw at June 12, 2006 04:22 PM

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