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Linky: http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...etthebeta.mspx
I'm getting the full Pro suite as we speak. :)
Enjoy.....and don't moan if things don't work, key word here people is beta ;)
And as the servers are sluggish from time to time you can have the CD mailed to you, which is nice.
Liam
well that was amazingly easy. and for me the servers where very good, only had to wait a minute for it all at 8000kb/s :D
only problem is I’m working with some rather important data on Excel so i will leave it a week until i take the risk to upgrade.
Also how long is the beta valid until?
I think it's Feb 1, 2007.
Well, my Word and Outlook won't activate, so it looks like it'll be valid for 50 days. :(
Little taster:
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5...20071qr.th.jpg
Liam
neither will mine. won't connect to server but i thought it was cause it had problems with my proxy server. but maybe it's a bigger problem then?Quote:
Originally Posted by liam858
Hopefully it's a problem their end then, at least they have 50 days to fix it, i might report it as a bug....good start.:rolleyes:
Liam
also my installation wasn't so straight forward. it came up telling me to 'close this program before installation could complete', but then it listed no programs! so i just choose ignore and went on.
I'm having trouble getting the activation to work as well.
this is a long shot but i will try it anyway. anyone know how to do regression in Excel with it? i can't seem to find the formula i need unlike in the older versions :( .
I downloaded it right after I saw this post last night. I haven't tried to install it yet as I want to put it on my computer at work instead of my home computer. Having said all that, I visited one of my other forums and those guys said they're not having any problems with activation. Maybe the servers were busy when you guys tried.....?
you may well be right there. i tried it again and it worked fine straight away
Me too, yay. :)
Only problem now, and i'm not moaning :rolleyes: it's just the search thingie that has to be installed seperately, and firing up task manager, it runs in the background, so i stopped it, ran outlook, and it started again, so i watched it and it ran upto about 60-70mb usage, so i hope they fix that.
Liam
Question. Are any of you running this on a separate partition?
no, why?
oh ok. I just wondered if any of you were because I would rather have this on my 200gb drive which has loads of space, where as my 40gb has little space.
All my apps get installed on D: instead of C:. Just make sure you click the Customize button in the installer.
Ok, thanks Tuttle. I talked to someone else and they said they thought they had installed it on another partition only to find it went to their C drive. I don't want that, so thanks again for the help. I'll probably install this tomorrow.
That searchindexer.exe is a royal pain on memory usage, and it can be disabled in Services (Cotrol Panel OR Start|Run|Services.msc) and Windows Search Service needs to be stopped, and Right-Click|Properties, and from the dropdown select Stop.
Liam
Thanks for the tip Liam. I still haven't installed mine yet. Long story on why that I will be posting about here in our forum shortly..well, in a couple of days.
I tried to install it in Vista beta 2, but it won't accept the product key :( I'll have to see if I can get another key (I downloaded it from MSDN subscriptions). You certainly do have to jump through some hurdles to do beta testing sometimes :rolleyes:
If you downloaded the media from MSDN, you need the key from there too. The MSDN Beta 2 version doesn't require activation like the public download does.
I feel such a fool :o I transposed two of the characters when I wrote the key down. It's happily installing as I type this :)
I think we've all mistyped a key at one time or another Nick. So, don't feel bad about it. As is the saying around here....it's happened to the best of us. ;)