MS Office 2007 Beta download

Peteee

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx

Downloading now. I tried out the Beta one and was very impressed.

For those of you who say 'OMG, OpenOffice 2.0 is free and its better'

A) This beta is free
No, its not better. Word, excel etc have an all new GUI that makes things 100 times easier. Those that say MS dosent innovate...well

Creamy Goodness

may download it, will wait a bit longer though to get others thoughts, although i was impress with wmp11 beta

CuLT

Didn't fill out the "survey" that said "just click cancel if you don't want to fill it out" and bam, error, could not find the page you were looking for. Screw 'em, OpenOffice does the trick.

projectmayhem

Cremo wrote:

although i was impress with wmp11 beta

really? why? i have it and have to say, it's a very pretty looking wmp10... i don't see anything extra in there at all tbh

Peteee

projectmayhem wrote:

really? why? i have it and have to say, it's a very pretty looking wmp10... i don't see anything extra in there at all tbh

Faster searching?

Its a media player, it dosent toast bread!

projectmayhem

Peteee wrote:

Its a media player, it dosent toast bread!

lol i know it's just people have been saying good things about it but i can't see what's different, bar the sleek looks

Sparky

tbh I find WMP11 harder to navigate, Im so used to WMP10.

Gosh

If you're lucky enough to get as far as the page with the license numbers on then download using the links on that page, the page after that downloads SmartSource download manager - I tried over 20 times and couldn't get past the User Authentication.

Rollo Tamasi

i tried for two hours tonight to download this beta. Fecking MS, i'll get the beta as a torrent for it instead tomorrow, at least they're more relibable

tadgh

From System Requirements

All Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 software has an expiration date of February 1st, 2007, at which time the product will operate under reduced functionality mode limiting end-user options and operations.

Gosh

That's normal for a MS beta product

Gosh

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i tried for two hours tonight to download this beta. Fecking MS, i'll get the beta as a torrent for it instead tomorrow, at least they're more relibable

The downloads aren't coming from MS, they're from Licensed Technologies Group Inc and there servers are probably under a lot of pressure. To download all of the components is over 2.5GB.

I've downloaded all in about 3 hours using FlashGet with no problems

Creamy Goodness

projectmayhem wrote:

really? why? i have it and have to say, it's a very pretty looking wmp10... i don't see anything extra in there at all tbh

well for a MS product it does the job - allbeit it's not VLC - which is really surprising considering it's still in beta and did i mention it's a microsoft product?



i also couldn't download this tonight, got passed the survey had to verify my email address which i did and selected which version i wanted then bam, server too busy.

dubmick

Anyone having problems activating this?

eirlink

Downloaded this last nite and burned it onto disc.Loaded up and followerd on screen prompts,only I told it to load up along WITH office pro 2003.Then when I opened any of the programs it threw up the activate prompt,went online and activated.Took about 1h 20m to download and 10 mins to install.

Was effortless really.....now playing around with its new features.

BTW, I did not see or do any survey

eirlink

To change the default xp blue theme to vista grey on do the following
(this changes the theme for all programs in the suite)

open outlook
tools
options
mail formats
editor options
change xp blue to vista in drop down box
press ok

you like?

Gosh

only I told it to load up along WITH office pro 2003

Watch out for automatic updates especially if they're for Outlook 2003, I've had a few - most recent was for Outlook 2003 Junk Email filter. Seems if you let these install they screw something up where the next time you run Outlook 2007 it says it's not the default email client. Only way to get round this is to do a system restore.

Zascar

Downloading now - nice and fast 300k+/sec. Asked me to do a survey, and before that to sign in with my hotmail/passpost details.

Zascar

Installed fine (didn't have to burn ISO just installed straight no problem)

Looks very cool but its going to take a while to get used tot he new "Ribbon" thing, however I'm sure once you get used to it, it will be much easier for all applications.

What does everyone elese think?

This is a free beta, but will it stop working after a certain amount of time?

Wolfmother

I just downloaded these;

Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007:
Microsoft® Office Visio® Professional 2007:
Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2007:

Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007:

Microsoft® Office Language Pack 2007 - German:

Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007:

now, don't know what half of them are, willl fill you in later.

jesus_thats_gre

http://download.esd.licensetech.com/Microsoft/DMMSO12B/PRO/AKAMAIFILES/OPPLUS-EN.EXE

Direct Link here.

Zascar

#Elites wrote:

We get updates till Feb 07, then if we want updates we buy the Office package, or if not we just keep the beta.

Wow thats a pretty good deal! I'll keep using this fine, there is no way I am paying 100's of euro for a new updates I don't need!

Gosh

#Elites wrote:

We get updates till Feb 07, then if we want updates we buy the Office package, or if not we just keep the beta.

With reduced functionality

After expiration, 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 will continue to work in a reduced functionality mode that limits your options and operations.

On the Office 2003 download it states

After the trial expires, the software goes into reduced functionality mode. In reduced functionality mode you can continue to view and print files, but you cannot modify existing files or create and save new ones.

So it's probable the reduced functionality of Office 2007 will be the same as Office 2003.

Zascar

I'm sure it will be cracked by then anyway