Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Beta

If you want to test the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Beta, you now can.

Link : https://microsoft.order-9.com/winxp6...=winxp64&id=dl

Uh.. who is order-9.com and why isn't this direct from Microsoft? (sorry.. paranoid self coming out when I don't see matching domains for a company that really should have this)

And when the WHOIS comes out as:

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Catalysis (GPUMGCWWTD)
1165 Eastlake Ave E
Seattle, WA 98109
US

Domain Name: ORDER-9.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
., SysAdmin (XHAIWUQQWI) [email protected]
1601 E. John
Seattle, WA 98112
US
206-860-2540 fax: 206-860-8888

Record expires on 12-Dec-2005.
Record created on 12-Dec-2003.
Bulk whois optout: N
Database last updated on 26-Jan-2005 17:40:45 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.WIA.COM 207.66.128.8
NS2.WIA.COM 207.178.60.8

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© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved Terms of Use | Privacy Statement | Contact Us
This site is hosted by Catalysis for Microsoft. If you have any questions please e-mail us at [email protected].
Last Updated: January 25, 2005

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Asl your question there :)

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...n/upgrade.mspx

If you go to the official MS site you will see the link to the page SDK cited.

:)

sorry if I'm being a little thick. It seems to be free... I understand that beta editions usually are, but this is microsoft...

I got this at the bottom of the E-Mail:
Items:

Product: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Download

Quantity: 1


Order Total: US$0.00

So I guess so... :D

from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...n/upgrade.mspx

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the pre-release software is time-limited and will expire in 360 days.

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So, yes, it's free. For a time.

wow! Just installed it. I like it, pretty quick. (That could be b/c it is a fresh install on a new partition) but so far it seems to be pretty quick. Haven't put it through any rough testing (yet) but I will soon enough. :)

Wish I had x64 hardware to run it on. Or am I missing something? I assume this won't run on my AMD T-Bird 900Mhz?

x64 Edition only run on 64 bits processor. It won't run under 32 bits processor.

That's what I thought, thanks...anyone got an Athlon64 they aren't using? :P