RSSMicrosoft Looks to Office 11 Beta 2
By Nate Mook | Published November 5, 2002, 11:45 PM
With Beta 1 kits out the door to thousands of Office 11 testers who are eagerly hunting for bugs, Microsoft has begun preparations for a second beta phase that is set to begin in Spring 2003. Office 11 Beta 2 will be larger than the first beta, and Redmond is currently accepting nominations from those interested testing the next-generation Office suite.
"For Beta 2, the Office team is looking for customers to provide high quality, early feedback on the next version of Microsoft Office," reads a note on Microsoft's Beta Place Web site. "Now is your chance to nominate on the waiting list for what promises to be the most innovative release of Office to date!"
Interested Office users can sign up for Beta 2 by completing a short survey located at Beta Place using the Beta ID: GEXTSU and Password: B15LIMK.
"Our goal is to have a well targeted group of testers willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Please carefully consider your willingness and ability to test," says Microsoft.
Office 11 Beta 2 is slated to be the last full beta phase before the suite hits store shelves mid-2003. As with Office XP in 2001, Microsoft will likely issue at least two release candidates before Office 11 goes gold.
for you that dont know because betanews didnt add this the email that was sent out said "beta id is required you will not be conciderd with out one" so signing up with out a beta id will get you no where, which means you had to of tested for ms previously
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|"...you had to of tested..."??? What kind of grammar is that? Try "...you had to have tested..."
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|Wonder how quickly MS killed that beta L/P. I know that it doesn't work now, and I doubt that anyone nominated through this account will get in on the beta.
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|strange..it works for me just fine. betaplace is kinda slow, but i was able to sign up.
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|yeah this guy "skybluesmurf" doesn't know what he's talking about or even how to put it in the correct grammer. What's posted here from Betanews will get you into Microsoft's Beta Place to signupfor the Beta 2 of Office 11 The username and passwords are correct as a guest, and it WORKED FOR ME TO!
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|Hey... If I'm in the Beta 1 Test... Do I have to sign up for the Beta 2?
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|Well, since you don't even bother to read the newsgroups, I certainly hope you DON'T.
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|Was your poor spelling of GRAMMAR and TOO an intended irony?
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|Maybe this isnt a microsoft site.... DUH! they just tryin to get your Beta-ID's. I am a beta tester for windows.net and beta id is never used. Once you sign up it uses your passport
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|Works fine now, and has worked fine in the past. That login has been up since beta1 started, and I already signed up a while back. I have a beta ID so I do have high hopes as to getting into the beta.
Would you grammar-n-spelling nazis lay off, maybe the guy's first language isn't english, ever thought of that?
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|Do your homework. I know in Windows betas you do not use BetaPlace (they have their own beta site), I would know as I've been testing since Windows98SE. Anyway, BetaPlace is a valid Microsoft site and used for any betas other than Windows (just recently concluded the Microsoft Router test there).
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|BetaPlace is just a place for them to steal your ID's? HAHAHAHAH TOO FUNNY. Which beta are you in? The public preview? Did you pay $30 to enroll? Anywayz, betaplace is Microsoft run. Us "lucky" WindowsUpdate beta people constantly use it.
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|True!
BetaPlace was used for the Office 2000 beta *and* the mirror-image Office 2000 CPP (I was in the 98 SE beta *and* the Office 2000 CPP; for a while they ran concurrently).
BetaPlace is used for non-Windows betas (such as Windows Update and Office) while WindowsBeta is exclusively for betas of Windows. Both are MS-run.
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