Unboxing a HUGE Collection of Windows Beta Software!

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  • @Vashu-san
    @Vashu-san 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Love how the VMWare disc cover is a parody of Kraftwerk’s ‘Man-Machine’ with the VM team’s heads photoshopped onto the band members. :-)

    • @The_Wandering_Nerd
      @The_Wandering_Nerd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That makes sense. I thought it was some sort of Soviet propaganda poster when I first saw it.

    • @RadikAlice
      @RadikAlice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not even a part of the main topic but man, I loved that
      Whoever suggested it has some great taste

  • @the_master_of_beans
    @the_master_of_beans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Woah... physical copies of Longhorn? Now, that's not something you see everyday. That's cool!

    • @ninjasiren
      @ninjasiren 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It will be cooler if it's pre-reset ones.

    • @juangutierrez5400
      @juangutierrez5400 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially a copy of Odyssey.

    • @seandc6629
      @seandc6629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@juangutierrez5400 Odyssey was meant to be the business version of neptune, and was cancelled before any builds were made.

    • @A.theboy333
      @A.theboy333 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You spoiled me

    • @dariolloshi2007
      @dariolloshi2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about a copy of neptune ?

  • @CEO100able
    @CEO100able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Awesome beta software acquisition from an actual Microsoft beta tester! That was very generous of him! Way to go to David from Virginia Beach, VA! I have never seen all the physical beta software media before. Have you considered archiving all of them on The Internet WayBack Machine Archive for future video and screenshot showcases yet? Also, I would love to see you upload demonstration videos of all the beta material you received from David, so can you please upload them soon? I would really appreciate it. Thank you!

    • @lucasmunerati5928
      @lucasmunerati5928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello Ceo100able

    • @CEO100able
      @CEO100able 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lucasmunerati5928 Hi there! How are you doing?

    • @linglin92
      @linglin92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I really wonder if MJD uploads ISO image,VS6.0 RC1 and NT4.0 SP4 Beta currently doesn't exists on the internet,and the others' build number also need to be verified

    • @inny74
      @inny74 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats a nice idea, but one flaw...
      What makes you all think he will archive this stuff? most of this stuff needs a product key, which he doesnt wanna put out there, for legal reasons. Sure, preserving software *is* in fact different in this case, as more software are abandoned by copyright holders each day, but some need a key to be installed, or even ran all together.
      Im pretty much saying if he isnt willing to give even a beta key, which is the same key for all testers, he probably won't archive this stuff either. *But lots of this stuff is already on the net anyway, so, you really wont miss out if he isnt gonna archive this stuff...*

    • @WolfieMar
      @WolfieMar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@inny74 there are probably other ways without using product keys if you know what i mean
      and it would be cool to just have it all

  • @Errow97
    @Errow97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    This collection could not be in better hands, I can't wait for future videos with these softweres, great video!

    • @MichaelMJD
      @MichaelMJD  4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Thank you!

    • @pwnrz8684
      @pwnrz8684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MichaelMJD You're welcome.

    • @pwnrz8684
      @pwnrz8684 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@damian9303 ikr

    • @skoda8666
      @skoda8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The best hands are the ones that share their stuff.

    • @Bowling4986
      @Bowling4986 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@damian9303 No need to be so rude to him, he's just trying to respect that this was a special donation.

  • @RynLikeTin
    @RynLikeTin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I sadly lost the MSN commemorative CD ages ago to a burglary, but fun fact: the "subscription" for MSN beta premium access from that test still shows on my Microsoft account page to this day.

  • @kbhasi
    @kbhasi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I find the VMware "Ready to Run" discs interesting, as it predated the "virtual appliances" they offered on their website, which in 2008 included a "Browser Appliance"*, and I assume was an interesting way to promote VMware Workstation, back when it was just called "VMware". I wonder if you plan to just get the VM files off the disc and run it in the current version, and/or demonstrate the older version of VM Workstation that it was bundled with.
    *(based on Ubuntu 5.10, with its visual style that would later become known as "LegacyHuman", that also led me to installing the full distro on my Compaq Evo N400c)

  • @michaellacock
    @michaellacock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Make sure to copy everything for archival purposes!!!!

    • @1nikolas
      @1nikolas 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@damian9303 yeah thats unfortunate..

    • @BertGrink
      @BertGrink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@damian9303 To be honest, I understand his stance; after all it is a rather special donation that has been entrusted to him, and it should be treated with respect.
      Having said that, I also have to admit that I would honestly not mind getting my grubby mittens on some of that software lol

    • @Bowling4986
      @Bowling4986 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BertGrink Plus Microsoft has taken down some videos before for having the product keys shown.

    • @TorutheRedFox
      @TorutheRedFox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@damian9303 the keys probably can identify who it was
      it's more of just protecting the person's identity

    • @kurnma3776
      @kurnma3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      BetaArchive staff will still probably hoard those images lol.

  • @UlzYT
    @UlzYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This looks epic and I haven't even seen it yet. Didn't even know there were physical copies out there!

  • @cardbordmaro
    @cardbordmaro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    wow he's pretty lucky to be a beta tester and your pretty lucky on getting the beta stuff pretty rare

    • @trebantetheincineroar423
      @trebantetheincineroar423 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes sir. Much lucky, @MJD Micheal

    • @ohmagod
      @ohmagod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank David. He was the beta tester and the person who sent this.

    • @dh2032
      @dh2032 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ohmagod same here also

  • @CoolestFireySpartanEver
    @CoolestFireySpartanEver 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:15 *AW SERIOUSLY!*

  • @sugaryhull9688
    @sugaryhull9688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Ya gotta dump this stuff for us! Even if it's already online, it's nice to have another copy for verification

  • @Wapitiii
    @Wapitiii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Kraftwerk cover looks sick.

  • @xXBeefyDjXx
    @xXBeefyDjXx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    PLEASE dump these to the Beta Archives forums if you haven't already!
    I'm sure WinWorldPC would also gladly accept some of these :)
    What a generous donation!

  • @Kali_Krause
    @Kali_Krause 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Netscape Communicator CD looks really interesting. My parents and I had Netscape on our old Windows 98 SE machine. We used it prior to switching to America Online. Great video!

  • @mrtechslab1800
    @mrtechslab1800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The special edition MSN disc would make a great video (:

  • @definitely_notme4112
    @definitely_notme4112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I REALLY want to see you install those physical copies of longhorn. They aren’t something you see every day!

  • @kurnma3776
    @kurnma3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of those CDs is probably an unleaked beta build!

  • @DevilMayKye
    @DevilMayKye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:01 I love the parody of Kraftwerk's 'The Man-Machine' album cover for VMWare's sleeve.

  • @therealdjflip
    @therealdjflip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i remember my days on the beta program, as well as attending MS events and getting free copies of the new o/s being promoted at the event.
    got everything from xp-64bit upto windows 7 from events,
    and a ton of server and other stuff in the post from being a beta tester
    Australia didnt get as much or as good as U.S did

  • @Bebble
    @Bebble 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:58 i'm proud to be featured. my post is at the very bottom, the one that says "[REQUEST] Windows 95 Disk 18".

  • @Genio_soy
    @Genio_soy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I LOVE the videos where you unbox stuff and show off your collection! Keep doing more please!

  • @3sm314
    @3sm314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's some awesome that you've got this. This is very exciting for the whole community! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @easybee0
    @easybee0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Could you try to install Androidx86 on the 5$ Win98 PC? Old versions (4.4 and older) can actually work on 512 MB of ram (version 1.0 was designed to work on just 32 MB)

    • @MichaelMJD
      @MichaelMJD  4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I will have to try that! It will go well with another video idea I got recently

    • @tezcanaslan2877
      @tezcanaslan2877 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MichaelMJD Just remember that android was never designed with mouse and keyboard in mind

    • @greg56599
      @greg56599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tezcanaslan2877 Yes it was. Original Android phone had physical keyboard and trackball

    • @tezcanaslan2877
      @tezcanaslan2877 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@greg56599 But not other phones

    • @CrabHead501
      @CrabHead501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tezcanaslan2877 it is

  • @jonathongraves2976
    @jonathongraves2976 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think they all deserve there own dedicated video. Especially the MSN Collectors Edition.

  • @alybe1801
    @alybe1801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Preinstalled VMs? In a disk??! Now that's impressive 😲😃

  • @winmactutoriales5218
    @winmactutoriales5218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have the first developer release of Windows ME and y need to say that the beta is way more stable than Windows ME seriously it runs so fast

    • @bedantadey6554
      @bedantadey6554 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@winmactutoriales5218 you were a ms developer?! please, is there any way i can talk to you? i wanna be a ms dev in future...

    • @winmactutoriales5218
      @winmactutoriales5218 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bedantadey6554 i wasnt a ms developer my uncle was one 1999-2006 he gave me his copy of windows me dev preview he said it was awsome being a ms dev but that it was lot time consuming i will suggest you too be a ms dev if you have lots of time

    • @bedantadey6554
      @bedantadey6554 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@winmactutoriales5218 wow! i am just 15 now so i guess i'll have lots of time in the future

  • @eupher2
    @eupher2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video reminds me, I have a Vista Beta 2 disc signed by Jim Allchin around somewhere.
    I don't remember why Jim sent me a signed disc it was over 15 years ago, but I'm grateful.

    • @MichaelMJD
      @MichaelMJD  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Woah that's really cool!

  • @diamondmcpro
    @diamondmcpro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I haven't even watched yet and can already tell this is a great video

  • @RyanTrunten
    @RyanTrunten 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, I confirm those were longhorn and vista discs, as I was also in that beta, and they sent that generic letter to everyone

  • @linglin92
    @linglin92 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:00 MJD talks about the packaging,I think the main reason depends which group Microsoft was distribute to.
    most of testing software and OS was used for testing internally so there's not too much information on the disk,some of them distribute to beta testers so it might contains basic information on the disc and packaging.Public beta and RC releases will contains more details and might have the same information identical as future release for sale.
    MJD shows Windows Server 2003 RC1 Packaging contains more information disc and manuals so Microsoft might distribute them to some big company to test them for real-time server testing
    9:50 I thought Microsoft's all 1 Serial Key could be passed was a bug,seems like I was wrong,Microsoft actually using it as beta testing serial key.Because it could passed in almost any software and OS setups if any serial key using this format

  • @minefarmer202
    @minefarmer202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    test some of these disks on the 5$ pc that would be awesome

  • @dumb5308
    @dumb5308 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those longhorn discs look really interesting... perhaps there is stuff on there we haven't found yet or fig up (?), unlikely tho

  • @peterberning
    @peterberning 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    the windows vista release candidate 1 would be an enjoyable one to watch. like a comparison between candidate 1 and the final version.

  • @AtariPCnet
    @AtariPCnet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did Beta testing for Microsoft from Win98 right through to the time they moved to the insider previews which was the end of such an awesome time in my life. I still have all the Alpha/Beta CD's which Microsoft used to ship via DHL to me all the way over in Australia including Win98, Win98 SE, Plus! 98, WinMe, WinXP, Win Home Server but that's not even half of my collection. :)
    Sometime around 1999 I joined the Microsoft Games Core Group which was a very small group given the privelge to Beta test all the fantastic games Microsoft were realising in what you could probably describe as the goldern period of the Microsoft Games Studio. In no particular order, StarLancer, Baseball 2000, Baseball 2001, International Football 2000, NBA Drive 99 (later became NBA Inside Drive 2000), Halo, Fable: The Lost Chapters, MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, Zoo Tycoon, Asheron's Call, Age of Mythology, Freelancer, MechWarrior Vengeance, Combat Flight Sim 2, Combat Flight Sim 3, Impossible Creatures, Motorcross Madness 2, Midtown Madness 2, Dungeon Seige, NFL Fever 2000, Crimson Skies, RalliSport Challenge, Flight Simulator 2000, 2004.
    Before anyone asks, yes I've tried backing up the data on these game CD's but unfortunately disc rot is a really bad problem with these discs and I'm struggling to get data off some of them. :( In hindsight I wish I started making copies of these much earlier as Alpha/Beta copies of many of these games just don't seem to exist anywhere. At the very least I will make scans of the discs as many of them had some great artwork done up.
    Great to see more of the discs still out there instantly gives me fond memories. :)

    • @AtariPCnet
      @AtariPCnet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@damian9303 All the Windows Beta's I have are out there already. Everyone got major releases and while there are some interm builds I have on CD, these also went out to a fairly large pool of testers who reported certain bugs. The real rare interm builds that made it out to testers were download only for the majority of us with the only CD's being sent to select testers that they required feedback from and wanted to ensure they had a copy.

  • @DavidWonn
    @DavidWonn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I don’t personally collect betas, I’m very intrigued by versions that either radically changed the UI (Windows NT 4), radically changed the architecture (NT 3.1), or did both (Windows 95) just to see which ideas did get implemented and to see which were dropped.

  • @QuaaludeCharlie
    @QuaaludeCharlie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You Scored big time Michael . I see some great Video content coming :) QC

  • @HardDriveGuruOfficial
    @HardDriveGuruOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Windows .NET, Beta Evaluation, and Longhorn/Vista beta discs are catching my attention!

  • @THEtechknight
    @THEtechknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow thats neat. I have the Windows Me beta and final copy discs back when I participated in that. Man. That was a different time period in Microsofts history. Kinda miss that version of Microsoft.

  • @Irysuwu
    @Irysuwu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Longhorn beta videos would be amazing to watch, like, do it in person and not just through a VM.

  • @tailsprower9542
    @tailsprower9542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lol for some reason i got so excited when i saw this video pop up when i opened YT I was like: :000000000 An MJD Video (thanks for all the content that you do and all that you teach me :)

  • @ash3s_
    @ash3s_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd like to see videos about Longhorn/Vista builds, especially if they're never seen before

  • @tboneanimatetwoaccount2094
    @tboneanimatetwoaccount2094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh god you do not know how much I was into betas last year.

  • @Leonard_MT
    @Leonard_MT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can you take a look at those win NT 5.0 betas?

  • @markarca6360
    @markarca6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Microsoft Systems Management Server is now Microsoft SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager).

  • @seandc6629
    @seandc6629 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I cant say for sure without having a copy of the discs contents/an iso of each disc, but I believe the msn gold disc and msdn videos disc have never been dumped in any form before.

  • @stephenmiller1636
    @stephenmiller1636 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would love to see those Longhorn Beta 1 discs installed in a VM, especially since there arent many Beta 1 builds listed on betawiki or winworldpc.

  • @BertGrink
    @BertGrink 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That golden CD beats Lightscribe by several horse lengths, in terms of awesomeness.

  • @vincentschumann937
    @vincentschumann937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would love to see some iso upload

  • @geo8046
    @geo8046 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah. Phisical longhorn discs? Heck, that's a bit unlikely, but those exact discs may contain unleaked builds!

  • @WindowsProfessional-ov6xr
    @WindowsProfessional-ov6xr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These really should have been on the hands of someone who will actually DUMP THIS STUFF.

  • @drsudo5135
    @drsudo5135 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I fucking love the VMWare kraftwerk reference that’s amazing

  • @jmoralesv03
    @jmoralesv03 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Michael, this was a really great video! I would like to see a Windows Server migration video series, for instance from Windows NT 4 to Windows Server 2019, going through Windows NT 5 and Server 2003, the one you got in the package 😱
    Besides, I can see a lot of development tools within this package, related to Visual Studio and .NET, it would be awesome to see those installed in a Windows OS contemporary to those tools, such as Windows XP or Windows Vista. However, developer tools are not fun for everybody (I'm a .NET software developer so I would enjoy watching that kind of content). Keep up the good work!

  • @patrik_x86
    @patrik_x86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These should all be ripped with something like Alcohol 120% and uploaded for archival purposes!

  • @MrNyakas
    @MrNyakas 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think we would like to see videos about ALL of the discs. 😀 By the way awesome collection, I only have the Vista RC1 32 bit in a paper case. I got it from the PCWorld magazine when I had a subscription.

  • @thischannelisofficiallydea1105
    @thischannelisofficiallydea1105 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Got to say, Longhorn and Beta Vista discs are interesting and I would like to see them.

  • @fu886
    @fu886 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    They were sent fro big enterprises to audit the software with their deployment my dad used ot have a lot of them form job.
    It was combined with the licensing scheme of the time where the cds were only evaluation and you could license them in the license center

    • @fu886
      @fu886 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      .net marketing was used to windows server as it was right when they released Visual studio .net 2002 and tried to promote it as a platform

  • @seven7000_
    @seven7000_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video MJD! Make sure to install them in the future ;)

  • @nanika2566
    @nanika2566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please make a copy of these contents and scan the covers/containers and up them on the Internet Archive or similar; they're interesting ^^
    Good channel and hands btw (heart

  • @M364A
    @M364A 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    those are nice VMware sleeves they got, they look like the Album Cover of Kraftwerks album "The Man-Machine"

  • @adomantm
    @adomantm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want see you installing those longhorn CDs in your next video

  • @BoomboxStudiosAndDexter
    @BoomboxStudiosAndDexter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    PUT THEM ON INTERNET ARCHIVE!!!!!!

    • @SzymonPmc
      @SzymonPmc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he could get into trouble because of copyright

    • @Tearnalte
      @Tearnalte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@SzymonPmc internet archive is exempt from DMCA

    • @TorutheRedFox
      @TorutheRedFox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SzymonPmc why would they?
      Microsoft literally didn't give a shit about the XP leak

    • @Tearnalte
      @Tearnalte 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TorutheRedFox well they did take it down

    • @lemau8458
      @lemau8458 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tearnalte Source?

  • @polar-star64
    @polar-star64 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh hey! I live in VA Beach too! Shout-out to fans in VA Beach!

  • @Vladimir_4757
    @Vladimir_4757 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Videos over all of it would be awesome

  • @meligarcia
    @meligarcia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really want to see the Plus 98 beta!

  • @Sventra
    @Sventra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That gold MSN CD is AWESOME, I really want to know if there is something different in that version of msn but given that the servers are now dead, it might be impossible to know what changed from the original one... Right? 👀

  • @swtch.s
    @swtch.s ปีที่แล้ว

    imagine it came with build 4000 on longhorn that would've been sick

  • @jargon343
    @jargon343 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video, Michael!

  • @griffinlaw9367
    @griffinlaw9367 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope you do videos where you check out the stuff on these disks.

  • @dollardealtech768
    @dollardealtech768 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's a cool collection. Do any of the discs work? Even if it doesn't, it's still a good collection.

  • @saiprasad8078
    @saiprasad8078 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I first took a look at the VM CDs, I thought they were HDCDs for Kraftwerk :-).

  • @ysink
    @ysink 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay i wanna see the VMWare discs ngl. Kinda interested to see if they install on modern hardware

  • @danem2215
    @danem2215 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those VMWare disc sleeves look like Kraftwerk album covers

  • @markarca6360
    @markarca6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    NetShow is now Windows Media Services.

  • @mattelder1971
    @mattelder1971 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The MSN beta program wasn't hard to get into, it was a simple matter of applying online. As far as I'm aware, basically anyone who applied was accepted at the time. I had one of those gold discs as well. Not sure what happened to it, most likely lost it in a move years ago.

  • @77x5ghost
    @77x5ghost 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i really want to see more about that windows nt 5.0 disk

  • @imjustcaden
    @imjustcaden 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The server discs were marked red green and blue because of RGB, not the microsoft logo.

  • @WalnutSpice
    @WalnutSpice 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yoo, would be real cool to see these backed up to winworldpc with some images of the box art attached, if ya find the time. Some cool things in there

  • @ArcadeAssaultSrb
    @ArcadeAssaultSrb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well michael u fixed my day as i saw notification❤️❤️,is it safe now to install windows 7 updates in 2020 even if it is ended bcs for me it wants to install them

    • @elliottjewell5898
      @elliottjewell5898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's always safe to install updates, they might be old or related to a program you just installed like microsoft office or like me you could somehow be getting security updates, i got one in september but it wouldn't install.

  • @kloakovalimonada
    @kloakovalimonada 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's a new level of nerdiness 😂 good stuff

  • @davinp
    @davinp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to have the Windows Vista Beta CD and Microsoft Office Beta

  • @skoda8666
    @skoda8666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Care to dump some of those discs?

  • @maniatore2006
    @maniatore2006 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a lot of them.. but all what is left of it is Windows .NET (RC1) (RC2) and Office 2003 BETA and also Windows 2003 Final Enterprise, and Smal Business I was A technet Subscriber and also in the MS Partner Programm. And i also have the Virsual Studio Betas Thank you for that Video

  • @retrogamer64x
    @retrogamer64x 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now install all of this in the Dell Laptop that you used for the Windows Longhorn Upgrade Saga

  • @burntsn0w
    @burntsn0w 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a still sealed Vista beta 2 in it's dvd case.

  • @stevec00ps
    @stevec00ps 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to get all the albums of hundreds of MSDN CDs but they were all binned a good few years ago :(

  • @RodrigoBadin
    @RodrigoBadin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am interested on this Server Longhorn, I wonder if it is pre or post reset. Probably is post reset because of the Vista name together. Still I wonder how this Longhorn server looks like, if it's closer to 2003 Server or 2008 Server.

    • @aaaalex1994
      @aaaalex1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Longhorn Server (and Vista) beta 1 is build 5112 from July 2005, around 1 year after the reset.

  • @HuntersMoon78
    @HuntersMoon78 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a boxed (DVD Style box) of SQL, got it at a flea market for 50p

  • @il_nostro_della_segreto
    @il_nostro_della_segreto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please consider doing an Itanium build for that .NET server!

  • @Mizai
    @Mizai 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i found some of this beta stuff working in a thrift shop

  • @CalebHawn
    @CalebHawn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, when Microsoft actually had beta testers. Now EVERYONE'S a beta tester. They be like, "You're a beta tester! You're a beta tester! Everybody's a beta tester!"

  • @PrinsessePeach
    @PrinsessePeach 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have the Beta 2 and RC1 of Vista in really cool DVD cases from Microsoft I also have the beta of Office 2007. 🤓

  • @vincebailey961
    @vincebailey961 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe you could do a Beta day once a month or a week? Pick one from the package and make a video for it....

  • @wiwewawowu
    @wiwewawowu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    it would be so crazy if these builds were magically dumped!

  • @jadetheprootlol
    @jadetheprootlol 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should make a video on that MSDN Event CD from 2004 because that is a cd i never heard of and i wonder whats on it.

  • @W11GEOfficial
    @W11GEOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Video Idea:Test all the betas on the $5 Windows 98 PC

  • @alephcake
    @alephcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love beta stuff, and I bet all you guys do too

  • @TeraunceFoaloke
    @TeraunceFoaloke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it all sounds interesting but I hope you rip those CDs and archive them online if they haven't already been ripped.

  • @MonochromeWench
    @MonochromeWench 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    comparing NT5 Workstation to windows 2000 might be interesting as windows 2000 had shared ui elements with winme and the nt5 beta would predate the two being made to look similar. i'd be curious to know if its win2k with win98 styling or more like nt4/win95.

  • @hell0wrld
    @hell0wrld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my father beta tested some stuff when he was in college don't know if he still has the disks though

  • @alexandergonczi3732
    @alexandergonczi3732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The good old times.