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If You Didn’t Get Vista 5536, You’re Too Late Now

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Mary Jo
Mary Jo
Aug 30, 2006
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“Thank you for your interest in Windows Vista. The Customer Preview Program is now closed. We have reached our goal of 100,000 downloads for the pre-RC1 release and the program is now closed. Windows Vista RC1 will be available in the coming weeks. Please refer to the Customer Preview Program website for information, including DVD-burning instructions,” according to Microsoft’s Web site. Don’t fret if you didn’t get yours: It sounds like RC1 truly is right around the corner, and that public test release is slated to go to more than two million.

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