Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview Leaked

[lee31]

I haven't been prompted to activate this. In 2007 you get a window asking you to activate the first time you open one of the programs. I've not seen this with 2010.

Where are you suppose to activate it if you have to that is? I don't recall having to activate the 2007 beta's.

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

I haven't been prompted to activate this. In 2007 you get a window asking you to activate the first time you open one of the programs. I've not seen this with 2010.

Where are you suppose to activate it if you have to that is? I don't recall having to activate the 2007 beta's.

I don't think you have to activate this :/ I don't know whether this thing will expire and, if it does, when this will happen. I was just checking to see :p

If we find a key, you click on the office button and then click the program name just above 'options', then click change product key.

[dcghost]

I would assume that you do not have to activate it, however I did run across a couple posts saying that it had a 30day activation with it. Does not really make sense, but I have not had any luck finding any otther information about it.

[TDQuiksilver]

I keep seeing "November 10, 2010" mentioned. Anybody been able to confirm yet?

[Denis W. Veteran]

For people who have Office 2010 and Windows 7 RC installed, can you please open a folder full of pictures, open the Preview pane, select a picture, and check if the picture's preview size expands to fill the width of the pane? I'm trying to figure out which application is responsible for causing this bug, and so far I'm singling out Office 2010 as this bug has been surfacing since I installed it on my desktop. Conversely my laptop with Office 2007 and Windows 7 build 7068 doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

[dmb219]

The pic filled the preview pane for me, I'm using 7127 with Office 2010.

I guess that doesn't help you since I'm not using the same build as you.

Edited May 24, 2009 by dmb219

[Lord Ba'al]

I keep seeing "November 10, 2010" mentioned. Anybody been able to confirm yet?

Where did you read that?

[Ci7]

I keep seeing "November 10, 2010" mentioned. Anybody been able to confirm yet?

last i heard office 14 is due to be released in mars '10

[+Tyranade Subscriber²]

I think you need to activate this =/.

[Macalicious]

Unfortunately, the design of Office 2010 doesn't match that of Paint and Wordpad in Windows 7. The glass isn't faded into the tabs in Paint and Wordpad. I'm hoping that will change by the RTM of Windows 7, but I doubt it.

This is a technical preview; it isn't even a beta yet. They were probably waiting till Windows 7 stabilised its interface style before implementing it in Office 2010.

[Calum Veteran]

This is a technical preview; it isn't even a beta yet. They were probably waiting till Windows 7 stabilised its interface style before implementing it in Office 2010.

But that wasn't what I was complaining about :) I was complaining that the interface in Office 2010 is more advanced than the interfaces in the applications which use the ribbon user interface element in Windows 7. So the opposite to how you read it.

It's unlikely they will go backwards and make the Office 2010 interface worse to try and make it looks like Paint and Wordpad's.

I want Paint and Wordpad to look like Office 2010, not the other way around.

Edited May 25, 2009 by Calum

[TDQuiksilver]

last i heard office 14 is due to be released in mars '10

I also heard you were going to be the first human to test Mars' air without a suit & mask. ;)

[Macalicious]

But that wasn't what I was complaining about :) I was complaining that the interface in Office 2010 is more advanced than the interfaces in the applications which use the ribbon user interface element in Windows 7. So the opposite to how you read it.

It's unlikely they will go backwards and make the Office 2010 interface worse to try and make it looks like Paint and Wordpad's.

I want Paint and Wordpad to look like Office 2010, not the other way around.

Its more advance for a reason - because Office is hugely more complex than paint or wordpad.

I don't know why you expect them to more 'advanced interface' to something that doesn't require it - given that the overall idea of the ribbon hasn't changed, I can't work out what you're getting at.

[Subject Delta]

I haven't been prompted to activate this. In 2007 you get a window asking you to activate the first time you open one of the programs. I've not seen this with 2010.

Where are you suppose to activate it if you have to that is? I don't recall having to activate the 2007 beta's.

If you install the Enterprise edition, I don't think it requires activation. Otherwise, the chances are they may have just changed the activation rules for the Beta to make it less naggy. I don't actually recall being nagged to activate the Office 2007 beta either.

[Calum Veteran]

Its more advance for a reason - because Office is hugely more complex than paint or wordpad.

I don't know why you expect them to more 'advanced interface' to something that doesn't require it - given that the overall idea of the ribbon hasn't changed, I can't work out what you're getting at.

When I say "advanced", I mean advanced in appearence only, not features. The glass is faded into the tab bar of the new Office, so it makes sense for the glass to be faded into the tab bar of Paint and WordPad. Also, the whole appearence seems to fit the Windows 7 style more in Office 2010, with the white-ish colour, therefore Paint and WordPad should get rid of the blue-ish colour and follow suit.

Surely no one can deny that?

[Ci7]

I also heard you were going to be the first human to test Mars' air without a suit & mask. ;)

but Skynet <=====> machine(Cyborg) :p

[dcghost]

but Skynet <=====> machine(Cyborg) :p

Wow...how did the sequal to Terminator Salvation get in here...:) Terminator Salvation...2? LOL

[Stew Gilray]

ah hell...

I've just a popup this morning when opening Outlook that I have 4 days left to Activate Ah ****

[jasondefaoite]

For people who have Office 2010 and Windows 7 RC installed, can you please open a folder full of pictures, open the Preview pane, select a picture, and check if the picture's preview size expands to fill the width of the pane? I'm trying to figure out which application is responsible for causing this bug, and so far I'm singling out Office 2010 as this bug has been surfacing since I installed it on my desktop. Conversely my laptop with Office 2007 and Windows 7 build 7068 doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

I'm running Office 2010 and Win 7RC x64, don't see this issue. Image expands in the preview plane to fill it.

Edit:

And yes, I'm now also being prompted to activate it, which fails when I try (can't contact the server)......

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

yeh same :( When MS stuffed up their preview program thing, did anyone manage to get a key for it?

[DrCheese]

I'm being asked to activate it on my home system (64bit version) but nothing on my work system (32bit), although I did reinstall it the other day when I installed Windows 7 build 7201

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

wtb key :(

[Livin in a box]

Have MS emailed people for the official Tech Preview yet?

[SQ1]

It counts 30 days from the day you install.

It appears to leave something on the registry, because uninstalling and reinstall don't reset the counting...

If u reinstall your SO it resets, but i don't wanna do that :s

[PGHammer]

I am guessing no current home user would benefit from the x64 version of Office 2010 over the x86 version?

If you run 64-bit Windows, you'll benefit. And I don't care how *little* RAM your system has.

I download upwards of fifty e-mails at a time (POP3, not Exchange) and Outlook 2010 64-bit is faster than O2010 32-bit or O2K7 at downloading and sorting them (especially the sort), and I run Windows 7 RC (also 64-bit) with but a single gigabyte of system RAM (so, not exactly a powerhouse, or even a powerMOUSE).

However, you'll hate having to uninstall your 32-bit version of Office first.