Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

[Singh400]

First wave of invites were sent out this morning.

I got mine and I'm looking forward to getting home tonight

Anyone else get in?

[TheAnimus]

Not yet it would seem, will have to perswade them we are worth beta'ing it!

want to use it on a 64bit build too, see what the performance difference is.

[atmadden]

Yup got mine too will have look probably tonight took ages to download their servers were really slow.

[Splash]

Got mine late last night, have the installers but not had chance to install as yet.

[Singh400]

Just leeched mine, probably gonna save it for the weekend to give it a proper once over.

[Splash]

The verdict so far - it takes a freakin' age to install. Currently at 28 minutes and counting.


I know it'll be full of debug code, but... seriously guys!

[alexp999]

I got an invite too

Downloaded and installed last night, (well this morning, lol)

Install took about the same time as 2007, nothing unusual.

So far I like. Its like a glassy version of 2007 on speed. It opens sooo much faster.

Still not 100% sure on the new "File" menu, think I prefer the old version, but it may grow on me, havent had a chance to use it that much yet.

[Splash]

...39 minutes later the install completes...


EDIT - a quick look at Word pleases me - the interface is very clean and easy on the eye. I guess now I have no excuse NOT to get my Exchange 2010 box up and running and test with Outlook 2010, see how the 2 work together.

[Splash]

Ok, got out of bed, rubbed my eyes, loved the bug report mechanism (you get 2 system tray icons - a smiley and a frowning face. To send positive feedback you "send a smile", to send negative feedback you "send a frown")

Much nicer than having to login to Connect to do it, and I'd imagine it'll get a whole lot more data returned.

[Paul Adams]

Ok, got out of bed, rubbed my eyes, loved the bug report mechanism (you get 2 system tray icons - a smiley and a frowning face. To send positive feedback you "send a smile", to send negative feedback you "send a frown")

Much nicer than having to login to Connect to do it, and I'd imagine it'll get a whole lot more data returned.

I decided to go nuts and move to the 64-bit Technical Preview version of Office on my production machine at work, I loved the little smiley feedback interface too - very easy to use and automatically takes a screenshot to help illustrate your happiness or frustration

(My +ve feedback was the message threading in Outlook, it can find messages in other folders from the same conversation, including your Sent Items, and present it in a collapsable tree format.)

[Singh400]

Finally got round to playing with this. Mainly with Access, so far I'm loving it. Moved over to x64 Office. Some fantastic videos on Connect explaining the new features/changes in Access, definitely worth looking at.

Didn't take that long for me to install, Splash - did you figure out why it took so long to install?

If you happen to dislike the new backstage view, you can disable it by following this little guide. I personally think it's quite snazzy

[nightkhaos]

I wanna Beta it. *sniffs*

[Singh400]

I wanna Beta it. *sniffs*

Sign up here, you might get lucky and still receive an invitation.

[nightkhaos]

Sign up here, you might get lucky and still receive an invitation.

Luck? I don't need LUCK!

[TheAnimus]

Luck? I don't need LUCK!

Been on the phone to the partner manager? Any luck?

[2Cold Scorpio]

I'm hoping I get an invite (I signed up a bit late); would love to test Office 2010 on my Windows 7 RC setup.