Office 2007 Beta 1 Technical Refresh

[pawan]

I downloaded Office 2007 today mornining from beta site....

It is fast, stable, good looking.

Just the best in office suite.

Pawan

[WolfX2]

is there a place where you can go sign up or do you need to be a MSDN subscriber?

[modernponderer]

is there a place where you can go sign up or do you need to be a MSDN subscriber?

The beta was open until November.

[WolfX2]

@andy_tek - drat!, ah well

[Aegis]

Do you really need to sign up when it's offered for free on Microsoft's site ?

[twizt3d]

please to scream at me as i have had my head stuck up vista's @$$ for a while, but i did not no M$ was giving office 2007 beta 1 away, kuz someone link me, this just doesnt seem plausable...

[fizban2]

Microsoft isn't giving away beta 1, or the technical refresh for that matter either, you have to be a beta tester or have a technet or MSDN account

[fizban2]

fancy....

more and more fancy, it even runs fast

[suryad]

arstechnica has been running a video made by MS to show off the benefits of Office 2k7 and boy am I impressed. It seems just **** easy to use! And intuitive!

[fizban2]

suryad

do you have a link to that video??

[Ctwizzy]

I think this is it:

hxxp://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/asx/OfficeUIIntro.asx

[freespirit]

Well today is my first day as a beta tester and I have downloaded and installed office 2007 beta with no problem however I am not sure if I need to activate the product or not If I try it says it cannot find a connection however Outlook is running fine and has no problems with connection. I uninstalled IE7 beta just in case it was the cause, it made no difference.

At the risk of making myself look silly should the activation work,? It does have a licence.

Take care

Dave

[fizban2]

no activation is done with the office products... just the cd-KEY is needed

[freespirit]

Thanks Fizban2

I was not sure because the activation wizard was displayed.

Take care

Dave

[riceboy]

no activation is done with the office products... just the cd-KEY is needed

Are you sure about this? I downloaded it , used the key and the activation window pops up telling me that I need to activate it with "X" number of uses left. Can't connect though and according to the MS Office discussion group there are a lot of people who can't activate their copy either.