ThWhere can we download version 2018

This afternoon my colleague had a crash. That in itself is not that strange and 2016 SP5  has been pretty good for us concerning stability but none the less it happens once in awhile. The strange thing is what happened next.

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There for my question, where can we download 2018 A1?

All joking aside, I can applaud that they are working on fixing known issues but offering a solution for it by pointing to an alpha version (or is it even a pre-alpha?) doesn't strike me as actually helpful. Even if we could get our hands on 2018 A1 we wouldn't be using it because we don't have time to fiddle around. We don't even bother with the beta version because all our designing/drawing is in a production environment.

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