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Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

May 25, 2006, 1:01 PM

In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.

“We’re seeing a ton of interest in the 2007 Office system Beta 2," a company spokesperson told BetaNews. "200,000 downloads in the first 24 hours! We’re thrilled to see our customers are as excited as we are for this big milestone.” Not all was smooth sailing, however, as the rush to download left some users complaining about "server busy" errors and slow speeds.

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By jononelson

edited Apr 10, 2007 - 10:46 AM

expired for no reason and it really is a step back in the office

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By makis

posted Jan 30, 2007 - 2:15 PM

very good

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By makis

posted Jan 28, 2007 - 5:13 PM

very good

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By makis

edited Jan 28, 2007 - 5:04 PM

very good to be free

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By rudolph@rudolph5.wanadoo.co.uk

edited Jan 8, 2007 - 3:01 PM

it is good to get something free for once.
ill let you know how it works

rudi

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By Manu1845

edited Sep 13, 2006 - 2:45 AM

MS Outlook is crashing frequently, evrytime I want to send a new msg or reply. what should I do?

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By samdeskin

posted Jun 6, 2006 - 11:48 AM

What would be awesome is if Google came out with online versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. that rivaled Microsoft's latest offerings.

If they offered them for free and put their ads on the screen, I would use it. But it would have to be better than the current version of MS programs that exist already.

The only thing they could do one better is allow you to save your files on their system in a way that would have a guaranteed backup and secure encryption so others, including Google employees, would not have access to the files.

samfind
http://www.samfind.com

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By devansh

edited May 29, 2006 - 6:19 AM

excellent features
plus its just a beta 2 version. can expect a very good office 2007

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By trebor

edited May 26, 2006 - 2:09 AM

1. The beta2 is valid in full thru Jan '07.
2. Its' hard to give it away, but "truly accidentally", bypassed the verification after installation.....wonder whether it still knows it should quite working after the expiration date?

Sofar stable as a house, and making sure to safe pre '07 files in pre-07 file format in case. Hope that by that time the ODF plug-in is available for word....MS again trying to proprietise a format.....fortunately they were smart enough at the ISO body.

As for upgrading, the only compelling thing i've seen are the ribbons.....good looks / very functional, but NOT A MUST HAVE to shell out yet again a fee....yep yet again you will only use 1% of its capability, and with the new menu's you'll only see the 1%.

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By bmj2006

edited May 25, 2006 - 11:47 PM

I got it. Yea! Working great.
Somethings are a pain.
But then, it is BETA.
Final will be tons better.
I might get this one for my now computer.
Then again, I might just use Openoffice.

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By stuarti

posted May 25, 2006 - 8:34 PM

What can I say excellent works great with vista keep up the good work?

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By revo35

edited May 25, 2006 - 5:02 PM

After Feb 1st 2007 you won't be able to save any documents. The software will be unusable. It's a demo basically... and won't be usable after the expiration unless you purchase it.

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By mtnmedia

edited Jun 30, 2006 - 3:11 PM

unfortunately the program expires on you without warning, without a way to save/export any of your data before it's too late and without any support. it totally sucks. stick with office 2003.

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By PC_Tool

posted May 25, 2006 - 6:31 PM

...or otherwise patch it. ;)

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By Drich

posted May 25, 2006 - 5:06 PM

After installing it and running it for about 2 days, my system was having some problems. I used faithful acronis true image and restored my system back to the point before I installed office 2007. Im going to wait a bit longer before trying it again.

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By drummerboy627

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:48 PM

ummmmmmmm the reason there's so many downloads is because it's FREE. you can get ms office for free and it's legal. so why wouldn't you want to download it?

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By spiffyjeff

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:54 PM

hmm, must be shareware?

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By zridling

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:24 PM

Word and Excel and almost stupid-proof now, and for my friends who call me for tech support every week, that's good.

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By Don Juan

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:00 PM

It's supposedly gonna end up being two or three or four hundred dollars, so I don't even care anymore. I'm perfectly happy with the free offerings.

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By elftyrrell

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:20 PM

I'm not sure you will be able to keep using the beta software after Office 12 is formally released. Unless I am wrong, doesn't Microsoft prevent the software from functioning after a certain date?

I agree with Don as the last couple of betas have been stable enough to use indefinitely.

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By nate

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:45 PM

The beta runs until February 1, 2007.

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By elftyrrell

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:48 PM

What happens to the beta software installed on my computer February 2nd 2007?

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By drumcat

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:52 PM

Likely it expires, and is no longer usable. Not 100% sure on that.

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By tenebrusmke79

posted May 25, 2006 - 4:58 PM

When you download and install it, it does say that some of the functionality will be lost on the day after the license expires, which to me, means that you can still use it, it's just not going to be as good as it is when you use it now.. I am not too worried about that anyway.

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By Paradise-FH-

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:44 PM

i believe he meant openoffice, etc.

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By mjm01010101

edited May 25, 2006 - 2:29 PM

How can a beta be useable "indefinitely" when there is a security release on their modern Office every month?

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By elftyrrell

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:38 PM

It can still be usable. If you are behind a firewall and don't open strange files from unknown sources you could use the software indefinitely. A fresh install of Office XP or Office 2003 without any service packs still funtions just fine.

This might not work for a company but a single end user could shouldn't expect much trouble. It's not like there are many bug fixes in the service packs. It's mature sotware. Even this version is mostly the same as previous versions except the menu structure has changed. Yet the same dialog boxes are still present - you just access them differently.

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By Mark Gillespie

posted May 25, 2006 - 6:58 PM

"It can still be usable. If you are behind a firewall and don't open strange files from unknown sources you could use the software indefinitely."

That's not true, there is a timebomb, and date monitoring code in there to ensure it timebombs Feb 2007, regardless of any Internet connection.

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By mjm01010101

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:49 PM

uh, OK. The end user can waste their time dealing with the bugs (yes there will be many in beta software.) and take up their time wondering why the random corruption/etc is happening. I'll stick with SP1 or higher software, kthx.

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By elftyrrell

posted May 25, 2006 - 2:54 PM

I don't blame you. I wouldn't use the beta for anything other than a spare computer. It's still fun to mess around with and it is free.

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By xhippyman

posted May 25, 2006 - 1:31 PM

got the email but no download

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By teohhanhui

edited May 26, 2006 - 5:36 AM

The download link is in the page with the codes, just click on the names...

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By NEOBassDUDE

posted May 25, 2006 - 1:30 PM

I just wish internet calendars worked better with google calendar.

And that some RSS feeds would constantly refill themselves (many copies of articles in a feed so I need to delete the feed because outlook keeps loading duplicates).

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By riel

posted May 25, 2006 - 1:04 PM

Got it, love it. I just wish they would add newsgroup functionality to Outlook. The RSS feature is great!

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