Today, Microsoft sent out an email to Click-To-Run Technical Preview participants that outlined the public beta which was announced by Microsoft last month; next week an email will be sent out to give further details. This news follows the announcement of other closing Connect groups, such as the fully-fledged Office 2010 Technical Preview group earlier last week.
According to the email, we might be seeing the public beta as early as next week - hopefully with some further new features and fixed bugs that were present in the early technical preview. Neowin will cover these developments as they happen.
Dear Technical Preview Participants,
Thank you so much for all your feedback on the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview. Your feedback has been of great help to the product team.
We are starting to prepare the Microsoft Connect site for the next Office 2010 release that we will also be asking for you to provide feedback on to us. You will receive an email next week with more information about the new release.
Starting November 10, 2009, the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview release will no longer have available for downloading. You can continue to use the product on any computer it is installed.
It is important that you plan for the next product release. This release will NOT be upgradeable. You will be required to completely uninstall the current version of your product on the machine. We strongly advise that you backup all of your data files, before you uninstall the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview release.
Again, thank you for your participation and feedback in the Office 2010 Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview Program.
Office 2010 Click-to-Run Product Team
Update: The Office team have confirmed they have some exciting news to share at PDC next week (via Twitter).
I'd Like to know why this product isn't upgradeable is it based on new or diff architecture?
Hope that made sense.
Are you talking the click-to-run technical preview...or the regular office preview? Because I am running the regular preview...and I have no Q drive.
It's Click-to-run.
And the visibility of the Q drive is a glitch.
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Whats your problem with outlook? Its the best outlook yet!
Last edited by rm20010 on 10 Nov 2009 - 07:10
Besides, for Exchange...
By being happy with reverting to Windows Live Mail you've shown that you have no need for the advanced features of Outlook. Outlook is much, much, more than an e-mail client. It's really an Exchange client, and was designed to be used as such.
It sounds like for you, using WLM was the right choice, but please realize that just because Outlook wasn't designed for you, it doesn't mean it's useless. There's really nothing that approaches what Outlook can do when used to its fullest in a business environment with Active Directory, Exchange, and Office Communicator...
Last edited by rm20010 on 10 Nov 2009 - 07:10
It sounds like for you, using WLM was the right choice, but please realize that just because Outlook wasn't designed for you, it doesn't mean it's useless. There's really nothing that approaches what Outlook can do when used to its fullest in a business environment with Active Directory, Exchange, and Office Communicator...
The problem with Outlook (as a Hotmail client) is mostly in Outlook Connector, which is solely due to Hotmail preferring MAPI. Outlook is far more than just an Exchange client (especially in 2010's case), it's actually the first IMAP client I find bearable (and that is entirely because of Outlook 2010 64-bit). Normally, I'm no fan of IMAP clients, because you often have to jump through extra hoops compared to POP3/SMTP; however, Outlook's IMAP support is no harder to configure than the POP3 support (especially for services like GMail/GoogleMail, which not only supports both, but uses the same settings for both in Outlook). In fact, I haven't used Outlook as an Exchange client since Outlook 2000 (which was, in fact, the only version of Outlook I used as an Exchange client), and that was only because I actually used Office in an office setting. I've used Outlook almost entirely as a POP3/SMTP client (with the exception of Outlook 97/98, which I also used as a faxmodem front end; I didn't go broadband until 2000). Outlook has always been, by far, my POP/SMTP mail client of choice; however, with the improved IMAP support (and the ability to handle large volumes of mail without requiring Exchange as a mail server), I see little reason to run any other mail software in Windows if Outlook is available.
it was leaked just recently
I think it's Beta 1..
Yep, and it runs perfectly.
did i miss beta 1?
Simple things like that can make one's experience so bad that I'm much more productive firing the shortcuts Google Gears made for me and access my Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Docs even Offline...
At first I was excited about the new Office and would jump through all the hoops to get it just to end up barely ever using it....
so can anyone tell me what's so useful about it?
Outlook has *always* been more than an Exchange client (it has always supported POP/SMTP from the beginning, and Outlook 97 even supported faxing out of the box, which was a no-cost add-on for Outlook 95); however, until recently, ISPs also provided Usenet services (which Outlook never supported directly unless you mated it to Exchange with the NNTP/Discussion Groups add-in). While you could (and, in fact, I always did) use Outlook for mail and Internet Mail and News (and later, Outlook Express) for Usenet, that flew in the face of *conventional wisdom*, which preferred *all-in-one* client software for ISP-based mail and Usenet (such as IMN, OE, Netscape Communicator, and Thunderbird. However, with the slow death of Usenet services from ISPs, and the increased use of multiple mailboxes, Outlook has come back into its own (and that doesn't even count sync services for smartphones).
Also, while Outlook wasn't included with Office Home and Student, it *is* included with Office Home and BUsiness (which largely replaces Office Home and Student), largely because of multiple mailboxes and the increased use of smartphones (such as various BlackBerries) in non-office settings.
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This legit?
Looks suspect to me...
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This legit?
Looks suspect to me...
It's real. CRGEvents is the company managing beta distribution.
Anyway, I wonder when news of the next Office:mac release surfaces. I really hope they actually keep feature parity with the Office for Windows this time.
That was it.... You will see that your "Mac" has actually always been a PC. Now you can go ahaed install Windows without the need of OS X or Bootcamp or what so ever.
Beta has been going on now for a short while, Nov 3rd to be exact.
This is the notification I received early last month.
We wanted to notify you the Office 2010 Beta will be available for you to download next month (November 2009).
The Beta release of Office 2010 marks the end of the Technical Preview program you currently belong to. We will release the Beta on public download sites, where you can download and install a newer build of Office 2010 client software. At that time, you will also get your first look at the exciting new features we have added to server products such as SharePoint.
What this means to you as a Technical Preview Program participant is that the Office 2010 Connect site that you have been using will essentially be shut down and you will be directed to the Beta site (location to be announced) for Beta downloads, product information, links to forums, and more. We will provide you with links to the new Beta site on the current Office 2010 Connect site, but product downloads, articles, product information, and newsgroups currently found there will no longer be available on Connect.
In the weeks between now and the release of Beta, you can still access all of the Technical Preview materials on the Office 2010 Connect site.
A reminder, you can access connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/office.
You can also access product news and updates at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/.
Thank you for your participation!
The Microsoft Office 2010 Team
Just my two cent =)
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