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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Island Dog
Reply #21 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:58 PM

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

TrevF
Reply #22 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:40 AM

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
Reply #23 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:07 PM

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
Reply #24 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:31 PM

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
Reply #25 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:05 PM

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
Reply #26 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:27 PM

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
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:13 AM

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
Reply #28 Thursday, June 1, 2006 10:16 AM

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
Reply #29 Thursday, June 1, 2006 11:44 AM

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
Reply #30 Thursday, June 1, 2006 11:45 AM

So far....

jaebear
Reply #31 Thursday, June 1, 2006 11:49 AM

mine wouldn't finish gave me an "error 1704" hmmmm....trying it again later who knows maybe it will work than

Randahl
Reply #32 Monday, June 5, 2006 3:25 AM

Has anyone had their window start to draw at a lower resolution than what the desktop is set to?
My res is set to 1280x1024, but when I open any office2007 program its drawn as, I speculate, a lower resolution like 1024 or 800? I can't find anything in the view, tools, or options that would make this happen so I'm very confused?

See linked screen for example:
Link

Biglee1
Reply #33 Monday, June 5, 2006 1:33 PM

Hi,

I had something similar with a skin. Cant remember which one at the moment. But i changed to another skin and it worked fine.

Biglee

Biglee1
Reply #34 Monday, June 5, 2006 1:34 PM

I had to uninstall Office 2003 before it would install correctly.

bmetelsky
Reply #35 Tuesday, June 6, 2006 8:08 PM

Ah - too many lock-ups at this point. Had to uninstall it and go back to Office 2003. I'll jump in the testing next release.

Island Dog
Reply #36 Tuesday, June 6, 2006 8:44 PM

It's been running very good for me. I really like it.

Island Dog
Reply #37 Wednesday, June 7, 2006 9:38 PM

Vista Beta 2 is now out.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_Vista_English_32bit/1149728719/1

Buttermaker
Reply #38 Thursday, June 8, 2006 2:46 AM

It's actually against the law to be running this copy of Office 2007. User beware!

thomassen
Reply #39 Thursday, June 8, 2006 3:37 AM

Eh? How is it against the law?

Anyways... I think I have to wait a few days to get the Vista Beta as the MS servers are getting hammered atm.

Corky_O
Reply #40 Thursday, June 8, 2006 7:11 AM

It's actually against the law to be running this copy of Office 2007. User beware!

Not true.

The Office 2007 beta is officially a public release and you will be sent a key by Microsoft via e-mail after signing up.

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Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 public betas

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