Office and Vista Beta 2 Notifcations!

[Neal]

Wow they are getting so slammed I can not even get to the download.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Seriously - if you're gonna run it in a virtual machine, *please* go for
Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've had nothing but good experiences with it )

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[Zack Whittaker]

Use a previous build number - 5342 and above should work fine )

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[Steve Foster [SBS MVP]]

Seriously - if you're gonna run it in a virtual machine, please go for
Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've had nothing but good experiences with it )

VS2005 R2 is what I'm using here, though if VMWare Server has decent
64-bit guest support by the time it comes out of beta, I may be forced
into switching.

 

[Steve Foster [SBS MVP]]

good to know that it will work on ext HD. Now if I can only get onto the
server

Not quite what I said, since I wasn't quite answering your question (at
least not directly).

I don't see any reason that the Office installation would block
installation to an external HD - they're just hard drives as far as
Windows is concerned, and I'm not sure that the Office installer would be
able to tell it's removable.

On the other hand, I don't see any major benefit - the installation
wouldn't be portable (moving the HD to another machine would not "move"
Office, and it wouldn't protect any existing Office installation from
being "mangled" (various common/shared bits would likely still be written
to %Program Files% as usual).

To my mind, there's only one safe way to deploy beta software, and that's
on a separate machine - whether that be an actual test machine, or more
likely these days, a virtual one.

 

[NLWard]

Well, that stinks. I nominated one guy for the friends and family beta, and
he never got in, so was waiting for the public beta. And now it's even
later.

 

[jvi]

I've succesfully downloaded and istalled Office 2007 but it fails the
activation. It says the network is unavailable, but my connection is up
and working....

Oh well....

Regards,
Jurij

 

[Deborggraeve Randy]

BETA2 is 5384?

I have been told in other post in this group that beta2 would be 54xx
Is the 5384 on ms connect the beta2 u guys are talking about?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Windows Vista Beta 2 is Build 5384.
What you may have been told was a rumour and like many rumours is false.

 

[Bill]

Not quite what I said, since I wasn't quite answering your question (at
least not directly).

I don't see any reason that the Office installation would block
installation to an external HD - they're just hard drives as far as
Windows is concerned, and I'm not sure that the Office installer would be
able to tell it's removable.

On the other hand, I don't see any major benefit - the installation
wouldn't be portable (moving the HD to another machine would not "move"
Office, and it wouldn't protect any existing Office installation from
being "mangled" (various common/shared bits would likely still be written
to %Program Files% as usual).

To my mind, there's only one safe way to deploy beta software, and that's
on a separate machine - whether that be an actual test machine, or more
likely these days, a virtual one.

Wasnt interested in it being portable. Just wanted to see what it looked
like. Your suggestion to deploy on a test machine is taken.

Will therefore pass on it since I have only one machine for both work and
play and reformatting if any problem would not be nice.

Thanks
Bill

 

[Zack Whittaker]

I was told Beta 2 was going to be 54xx as well :-o
Grrrrr.....

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[Steve Foster [SBS MVP]]

Will therefore pass on it since I have only one machine for both work and
play and reformatting if any problem would not be nice.

This is where virtualisation software comes to your rescue. VMWare Server,
Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC 2004 all provide the capability to
run virtual machines that are isolated from the physical machine. VMWS and
VS are free from VMWare and Microsoft respectively.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

54XX is in the RC1 branch.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

What about RC0?
Are they actually gonna do an RC0 this time or just gonna jump straight into
RC1?

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

BETA 2 5384 is RC0

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Sorry, already know - someone told me just after I posted.

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[orthocross]

Seriously - if you're gonna run it in a virtual machine, *please* go for
Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've had nothing but good experiences with it )

Is there an uninstaller for Office 2003 which will enable me to
cleanly install Office 2007 Beta when I get it in the mail?

And will Office 2007 Beta install on an XP partition on an Apple Intel
machine?

How about Vista?

Has there been any luck on dual-booting Vista with OS X yet?

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[Guest]

So when should this be released to those without fancy subscriptions? I sure
hope Gates likes me enough let me try Vista. I've really been looking forward
to its release.

I downloaded MS Office Professional Plus 2007 (440MB) yesterday and it took
4 hours. Today I got OneNote 2007(220MB) in 2 hours. Both seem like good
products. I especially like MS Word's great support for multiple languages
and its bibliography, cover page, and other simplified features. It seems
like a busy design, but gives you all the controls you need. I hope it
doesn't take me 16+ hours to download Vista.

 

[Chris H]

Connect is 5384.4

Windows Vista Beta 2 is Build 5384.
What you may have been told was a rumour and like many rumours is false.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Next 3 weeks, persons who signed up to download it, will get a notification.
I am sure a Trial version of the RTM will be also available when the time
comes.