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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested
Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 16 January 2005, 4:27 PM)
Don't download this Beta! It is not what you think it is!!
I tried to email this comment to the author of this article, but the email delivery failed:
Greetings,
Your recent ZDnet article titled “Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested” begins with this:
Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is now available: ZDNet has put Build 1289 through its paces.
You also give a link:
Just before Christmas, Microsoft finally made Release Candidate 1 of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition available to testers.
While this link works, you should know that after signing up to download; the received file IS NOT RC1. It is in fact Build 1218 from July 28 of 2004.
Microsoft does not state the version on the linked web page, and the version number is not given at any time on the Microsoft site.
I fear that many people will follow the link you gave, only to find that they have spent much time and effort to download an old beta.
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XP and 2003 follow the same build number... Anonymous
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They are 64bit software out!
just look here
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