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Old November 9th, 2006 Top | #1

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Default Microsoft Offers FREE Pre-Activated Windows XP Image for Virtual PC
This seems like a crazy deal -

Microsoft has decided to offer a free Virtual PC image of Windows XP SP2 that is already activated. The reason they are offering this is so that users will be able to test out websites on Internet Explorer 6 SP2 because you can’t have two versions of IE installed on a single computer. With the recent release of Internet Explorer 7 many users were complaining about not knowing how their site looked in IE 6.
Direct Download Link for the Windows XP SP2 Virtual PC Image
Homepage for the Windows XP SP2 Virtual PC Image
Direct Download Link for Virtual PC 2004
Homepage for Virtual PC 2004
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Odd. First link doesn't work (401). Second link works but clicking the "Continue" button to validate is not found (404).
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Yah as soon as i get to where i can download it i get the 404.
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Funny. I just downloaded this yesterday. It's an evaluation copy, and expires on July 20th, 2007.
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At 10:48 AM nonetheless.
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Link worked earlier today when I posted it, wonder if they yanked it?
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