how do people have Win ME ?

[khold]

Win ME isn't out yet, right? So how many people on this forum have it?

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well I originally meant to ask, "So how do people on this forum have it" but the above question seems to be spawning an interesting thread
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[AMB]

People in high places, or warez sites basically

 

[Polaris13]

MSDN subscription

 

[oldandquitemad]

Working for really REALLY big computer companies also works.

 

[Sunner]

95% or more is probabaly warez and MSDN.

 

[Czar]

Yeah, I´m a part of this 95%

 

[NFS4]

Beta testers of WinMe got a copy of the retail release...

 

[Henry Kuo]

among those 95%, i think at least 60% got theirs from warez, which bring me with another question. how many of those 40% testers "release" their beta to the public?

 

[helloedchen]

and if you're an OEM builder, you probably get perks (well..i do..)

 

[Scorpion]

Company paid MSDN Subscription.

 

[PCAddict]

A guy I work with has a copy because he beta tested Win ME. I will have my copy soon, one of the perks of the job.

 

[AMB]

has anyone had any beta (alpha) copies of whistler

 

[konichiwa]

Yes, I have. They're too premature to come to any conclusions, though. And as for WinMe, it has been posted (literally) at least once a day in one of the 10 newsgroups that it applies to.

 

[zippy]

Can someone email me the WinME boot disk?

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Read my signature.

 

[konichiwa]

Uh-oh, Warez king enters

You might not want to advertise that TOO much, I don't know how much the gods will like it.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Shhh, konichiwa!! It is people like you cause me to get in trouble.

 

[konichiwa]

Bragging rights, mainly. I've got just about every OS out there Including the non-Biggie ones like QNX, Amiga, Unix, etc.

 

[konichiwa]

Damn right! That mofo fits on a floppy...heh, compared to Win2000's 90,000,000+ lines of code.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Now, you're talking, konichiwa,

I still have Amiga 500 in my closet with bunch of games like Elite and Shadow of the beast, remember?

nEo

 

[konichiwa]

 

[Robor]

I like WinME over the flavors of Win9x. It's got some of the cool Win2000 interface and still plays games just fine. IMO, it's a nice step from Win98SE.

Where'd I get it? Usenet of course! I think the posters name was "Spawn".

Rob

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

I have a copy at work installed on an HP machine. I would never install it on my PC at home though because it would wipe out my boot partition and I'd have to reinstall Linux.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I was a beta tester for WinME. So, the good folks at MS decided to give me a copy. And, they also invited me back to beta test s'more!

-SUO

 

[A5]

How do you get in the MS Beta program?