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 2)

Nutshell69

on May 26, 2006

Im an idiot -

Phoon

on May 26, 2006

Hmmmmm... I installed it (chose the upgrade option), without uninstalling any Office2003 components. Installed, activated and works just fine here.

Bash2cool

on May 27, 2006

Microsoft finally did something amazing!......i never said that in years.LOL

looking at the office beta, i think that windows vista now is actually worth waiting for....

ToeJo

on May 27, 2006

I did too Phoon. The only problem I am getting is with the updates for Outlook 03. I kept reconfiguring Automatic Updates to not automatically install but still had problems. I finally removed it. I guess there could be problems with sharing a .pst file between 2 programs.

Wildharp

on May 28, 2006

amazing stuff - a brilliant job. The only problem I have is with outlook conflicts. the advice appears to be to uninstall any non 2007 version

Island Dog

on May 28, 2006

I have said this before. Office 2007 is not compatible with Outlook 2003. You must uninstall Outlook 2003 or there will be problems.

TrevF

on May 30, 2006

I've installed Office 2007 and everything was going fine until I installed Windows Desktop Search 3 (Beta) as requested by Outlook. Whilst I am using Outlook there is no problem but if I try to close Outlook it appears to close but still shows in Task Manager seemingly taking up more and more memory. Has anyone else expereinced this and if so how have you rectified it?

Corky_O

on May 30, 2006

Has anyone else expereinced this and if so how have you rectified it?

I simply uninstalled the desktop search, as it is not necessary to run the 2007 beta. I just click the "Ask me later" (or similar) button upon launching Outlook each time.

I have run the beta with and without uninstalling Office 2003 without any issues, so have not seen any conflicts with the Outlook 2007 beta.

The desktop search adds 2 or 3 processes, and does seem to affect the system speed (of course, it is a beta).

thomassen

on May 30, 2006

Is it me, or is there no way of spesifying where to install it? I got a seperate partition I install my programs to but the Office installer basicly went ahead and installed itself to "program files" on the C drive. That drive is getting quite full, even though I install everything I can to the other partition.

Corky_O

on May 30, 2006

Is it me, or is there no way of spesifying where to install it?

Did you click the "Custom" button when the install began after extraction?

I used the "Install" button on the clean install, and the "Update" button (which replaced the "Install" button) when I installed on top of Office 2003. In both cases, there was also a "Custom" button, but I did not explore those options. There may be an opportunity to select the install path in that dialog.

ToeJo

on May 30, 2006

Quick Question...Has anyone received an invite for Vista Beta 2 yet. I realize MSDN and Technet plus folks have it...but what about those of us who need an invite. Frankly, I was surprised to get the Office invite before the Vista invite. I don't know why, I just thought Vista was further along than Office.

Ambiguous9ine

on May 31, 2006

I downloaded the Office 2007 beta today after seeing a promotion through Facebook (haha?) and played around with Word a little tonight. It still seems a little bloated. I mean, what's the point of having the font settings in the ribbon, on the little pop-up window from the window, and on right-click? I like the new main menu, the status bar, and a bunch of the other settings. I just don't like having the same option in multiple places.

jaebear

on Jun 01, 2006

Okay i'm confused now downloaded 2007 trying to install but keep getting a box that says something has to be shut down but the box doesn't specify what needs to be not running.....any one have any ideas?

bmetelsky

on Jun 01, 2006

I clicked on "Retry" a couple of times when I got the same message error (not listing anything that needed to be shut down). I finally gave up and clicked on "Ignore" and it finished the installation. I rebooted right after the install was finished in case there were any files that may have been "locked up" or "in-use" during installation. No problems here.

bmetelsky

on Jun 01, 2006

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