Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 public betas

Published on May 23, 2006 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Microsoft has released the public betas for Vista and Office 2007.

You can download Office 2007 here - http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/download/en/default.mspx

Vista download will be available soon here - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/get_it.mspx

Comments (Page 1)

Corky_O

on May 23, 2006

Already running the Office 2007 beta!

Love the new "ribbon" design.

Waiting the next newsletter to arrive with the Vista link!

qrush

on May 23, 2006

Microsoft has finally done something right.

Download this beta if you can, it's quite amazing.

thomassen

on May 24, 2006

I went to try it yesterday because I've been following the blog of the UI people of Office 2007, but I got a server too busy error.

btw, "Vista download will be available soon", does that mean in a few day when the WinHec is being held? (availible for the public, not just MSDN subscribers)

Island Dog

on May 24, 2006

I think Vista will be available in a few days. Beta 2 is available on Connect for people who have had access to Vista before. I just finished downloading Vista and will be installing it later today.

Randahl

on May 24, 2006

Can anyone activate their version?

Island Dog

on May 24, 2006

I can't activate it. From what I have been reading it's a problem with most people. I will see if I can find a resolve.

RomanDA

on May 24, 2006

have not tried to install, can i use this with office 2003 as well? or do i need to nuke 2003?
and if i do will it mess me up if/when i need to go back to 2003?

Island Dog

on May 24, 2006

I installed it along with 2003. The only program which has to be uninstalled is Outlook.

ToeJo

on May 24, 2006

My Activation worked tonight at 10:30pm Eastern. Interestingly...I had a new PC I was working on today and needed to activate Office 2003 and that would not work either. I ended up calling the big phone number. The phone automation system was working great. But that won't be any help with Beta 2. My guess is the whole internet system for Activation was down today.

Randahl

on May 25, 2006

I just activated mine now!

Thanks for the heads up ToeJo!

I agree with you wholeheartedly Dr Nick,
finally something worth seeing!

Off to play now...!

Corky_O

on May 25, 2006

For those who like to read, there is a link "Windows Vista Product Guide" on this page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ which gives some good insight on what Vista is all about - from a general use standpoint.

Note - it is a 60 MB Word document.

ToeJo

on May 25, 2006

Here is an interesting tidbit. This morning XP downloaded a security patch for Outlook 2003. I wish I had read what it was specifically. Anyway, I installed the patch and it broke Outlook '07. (I haven't uninstalled Office '03) When the patch was installed it appeared to overwrite a critical file for Outlook. I did a system restore and it all works again. Welcome to the world of Beta!

Island Dog

on May 25, 2006

When installing Office 2007 it says Outlook 2003 must be uninstalled.

Nutshell69

on May 26, 2006

I signed up but never got the download link???

thomassen

on May 26, 2006

you can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/engb/register.aspx

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