Office 12 Beta 1 Released

[el22]

Too bad it looks like balls.

Once again Microsoft prove they have no idea at designing User Interfaces.

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Huh?

Seriously?

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

damn there must be a way to hide this huge toolbar

wel will soon need 30 inch screen with all these huge icons

[trad]

BetaPlace is down, down for maintenance?

Office 12 is nice, but i still prefer some classic theme, is it time to change?

mitodna

[agrobbin]

OK, I've got the prerelease version of Office 12 and my Outlook is going crazy. I can't even opem my mail. I can't reply to messages, nothing. The reading pane won't show the message. I don't know if its a bug but now i can't open my message to get into Beta.Microsoft.Com. Any ideas?

[Allan]

uh, try going to IE, typing 'beta.microsoft.com' and pressing enter. I *think* that'll get you to Beta's site. And if your gonna email them and still can't get Outlook 12 to work, then use your webmail ... but for me, I've seen no problems. However, I did see a "send error report" that sent about 6 iteams at one time.

Other then that ... make sure you've backed up your PST file, have copied all your important documents to a CD or other media before using the software. They say that in the install process.

Your PST file (which holds all your emails, and contacts, is located at C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook shut down Outlook, go to the above named folder, copy Outlook.pst to a secure location. 2nd HDD, MP3 player or other USB drive, or burn it with your files to optical media

[ThunderRiver]

Yeah, I use IE for Microsoft Beta exclusively. Guess what? it is time-out.. can't even access beta.microsoft.com and the download has reached its max connection retries. Oh well.

[serafins]

MIRROR PLEEEEEAAAAASE

[+Peewee210 Subscriber¹]

I really wish I got an invite for this one. Oh Well.

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Yeah Same Here, well Beggers Can't be Chooses ;)

[Nathanael]

Yeah, I use IE for Microsoft Beta exclusively. Guess what? it is time-out.. can't even access beta.microsoft.com and the download has reached its max connection retries. Oh well.

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Yeah, I can't open beta.microsoft.com either.

[DevilsRejection]

MIRROR PLEEEEEAAAAASE

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couldn't have said it better myself.

[kupang]

i've been trying to access the site since about 15 hrs ago...

and until now it seems like the connection to the betaplace is quite unstable..

bad traffic i guess

and most of the time the page failed to show up on my browser ( IE and firefox)

manage to maintain the dload rate of "pro.exe" at around 40-60kbps ..

and soon after about 20% done.. my office pc suddenly stop dloading it..

terrible.. gonna resume dload it when i return to my office tomorrow... >9 hrs to go...

[+shawncruiksh Subscriber¹]

Have you actually recieved the second welcome message talking about how to access the beta?  I only recieved my message at 7 pm, and then I recieved the key at 8 pm :)

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I recieved the welcome message last week - but haven't recieved anything since. Maybe it'll arrive today :unsure:

[ev0|]

This is a solid release for a Beta 1. I've seen past Office Beta 1s (most notably Office 2002) be close to unusable. But this is pretty solid.

I certainly like the direction they're going with it, but it does take some getting used to.

[nekrosoft13]

~400mb and i got my cdkeys too :D

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more then that if you count all of it

400 main office, 200-300 frontpage don't remmber exactly about the rest

[dacbo]

This is a solid release for a Beta 1. I've seen past Office Beta 1s (most notably Office 2002) be close to unusable. But this is pretty solid.

I certainly like the direction they're going with it, but it does take some getting used to.

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i dunno, i think office 11 beta 1 was pretty stable

[teh h4x0r5]

This will be why their site is so slow then, trying to download it myself.

[.Neo]

Something that absolutely amazes me is the fact how even Office 12 on Windows Vista is unable to display a nice antialiased pie chart. Microsoft Office 2004:mac does this without a problem. Isn't it the time to fix stuff like this?

Top: Microsoft Excel 12 on Windows Vista

Bottom: Microsoft Excel 2004 on Mac OS X 10.4.3

Edited November 17, 2005 by Neowave

[ev0|]

Go complain about it, it's still beta 1 and there is time to get it changed.

Of course, having a hard time getting to beta place .

[.Neo]

Go complain about it, it's still beta 1 and there is time to get it changed.

Of course, having a hard time getting to beta place .

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I'm not a tester just saw those screenshots. I asked the same question with the Office 2003 betas, they never changed it there either.

[ndc23798]

Regarding BetaPlace Issues,

There are currently servere server issues with betaplace however i have been informed this is not being caused by the huge office 12 download traffic but with all of betaplace,

A Fix is being worked on.

[srwal]

Server bombed out again....i only got 11% so far

[koolin]

can anyone provide details on what exactly has been released as part of beta 1?

Is Windows SharePoint Services available?

Is Project Server 12 available?

Thanks.

[Blackcomb Systems]

Is this release any differant than the leak a month or so ago? Anyone have the build number off the beta? :D

[Lee G. Veteran]

Thanks (Y)

/me downloads :D

[trad]

Something that absolutely amazes me is the fact how even Office 12 on Windows Vista is unable to display a nice antialiased pie chart. Microsoft Office 2004:mac does this without a problem. Isn't it the time to fix stuff like this?

Top: Microsoft Excel 12 on Windows Vista

Bottom: Microsoft Excel 2004 on Mac OS X 10.4.3

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Vista is not a supported platform yet, but it is the same bug since office 2003?

mitodna