[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?

[andyrole]

wolf74481, on Mar 16 2006, 08:33 PM, said:

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

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[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]

fizban2, on May 24 2006, 02:12 PM, said:

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.

[fizban2]

Rice boy, are you talking about beta 2? or CTp 1 Refresh... since hte post started with CTP refresh 1, i assume he was still talking about that, if he is on Beta 2 i believe it needs to be activated...

[deathwarder]

just got accepted into the beta, is there any timebomb in it? As in a little bit of code that disables itself after a certain date?

[doobie]

download from here:
Microsoft Office System 2007 Beta 2
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Micro...07/1148403176/1

if this is what you guys are talking about.

[freespirit]

Sorry if I posted in the wrong place
The problem has been resolved. Activation was required, there was a problem with the server, it is now working.
Take care
Dave

[clavicle]

Activation is needed for this beta refresh version!