Microsoft Readies New Office 2007 Beta Updates

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Microsoft is readying the next—and seemingly final public—beta builds of its Office 2007 client and SharePoint Server 2007 server products, according to bloggers inside and outside the company. Last week, Microsoft notified Office testers officially of its plans for the next build, known as Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (TR). According to a note posted to the Office 2007 beta site:

"The B2TR (Beta 2 Technical Refresh) build will be releasing in the not too distant future and we're starting to outline plans for that release. Over the next weeks we'll be providing more information about what TAP (Technology Adoption Program) members can expect in the way of deployment planning, Vista interoperability and support from our product development teams for B2TR deployments."

When asked for more specifics on Beta 2 TR timing, a Microsoft spokeswoman said the build would go live sometime soon "in the months to come."

Microsoft is expected by beta testers to release a new test build of Windows Vista – dubbed "Release Candidate 1" – by the end of August. It's not clear if the Office team is working to release the Beta 2 TR around the same time.

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News source: eWeek

(1 reply) #1 Chugworth on 26 Jul 2006 - 13:40

I would have been more excited if the Office 2007 Beta 2 TR would be released in the days to come, rather than "in the months to come."

And Vista RC1 before the end of August? Wow, that's hard to believe considering that RC builds should be theoretically release-quality.

#1.1 Fr@nKy on 26 Jul 2006 - 19:58

Yeah! Vista RC1?? I think they're desperate to show they are almost ready. Normally there's only one RC before a Windows release but this time RC1 IMHO will be more comparable to a Beta 3 and probably there will be a RC2 that would be the normal RC1 in nomal situations. Neverthless that I hope my PC runs Vista smoothly since it's only 1 year old!

#2 Landshark77 on 26 Jul 2006 - 14:26

They probably is just going to add an icon... S H I T... thats no update.

#3 PsykX on 26 Jul 2006 - 20:31

Nah, the office team is slightly better than that

It's going to include a lot of bugfixes I hope, and maybe a color chooser because it really needs one since the beginning of this new Ribbon interface.

#4 rev23dev on 26 Jul 2006 - 20:37

office 2003 beta 2 TR was VERY close to what was final and MILES above beta 2. i expect the same this year.

#5 fpd on 26 Jul 2006 - 23:35

Hopefully this won't be beta 2 with PDF removed!

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