Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 public betas

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 by Island Dog | Discussion: 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

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Corky_O
Reply #1 Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:10 PM

Already running the Office 2007 beta!

Love the new "ribbon" design.

Waiting the next newsletter to arrive with the Vista link!

qrush
Reply #2 Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:04 PM

Microsoft has finally done something right.

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

thomassen
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:34 AM

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
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:33 AM

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
Reply #5 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:48 AM

Can anyone activate their version?

Island Dog
Reply #6 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:24 AM

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
Reply #7 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:24 PM

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
Reply #8 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:24 PM

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

ToeJo
Reply #9 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:37 PM

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
Reply #10 Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:24 AM

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
Reply #11 Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:17 AM

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
Reply #12 Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:23 AM

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
Reply #13 Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:03 PM

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

Nutshell69
Reply #14 Friday, May 26, 2006 9:53 AM

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

thomassen
Reply #15 Friday, May 26, 2006 11:18 AM

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

Nutshell69
Reply #16 Friday, May 26, 2006 1:43 PM

Im an idiot -

Phoon
Reply #17 Friday, May 26, 2006 5:18 PM

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

Bash2cool
Reply #18 Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:42 AM

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
Reply #19 Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:21 AM

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
Reply #20 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:27 PM

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

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Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 public betas

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing