Is it safe to use office 2010 for everyday use?


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the technical preview I mean, is it safe to use for documents?

what if it crashes or a bug erases everything in the document =S

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Personally I'd hold off, we all know what happened with the early versions of Windows 7 where they deleted the beginning of some MP3s!

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To add to what Tom said - the code in the leaked build is not the official code for the technical preview. The technical preview will be a newer build than the one which has been leaked - an official Microsoft spokesperson confirmed (it's stated in this article)

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Personally I'd hold off, we all know what happened with the early versions of Windows 7 where they deleted the beginning of some MP3s!

+1 there's official beta testers for a reason. And I am not a beta tester so I wait for RTMs :p

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When in doubt, keep System Protection on.

Comes in very handy. For example, the Firefox 3.5 betas had a tendency to trash my profile - a simple file restore was enough.

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Personally i'd hold out until the official release if you're working on anything vitally important. Having said that I installed it to play around with and I haven't noticed any problems so far.

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No, it's a beta, you shouldn't be using it to edit or create documents for your work or schoolassignments. You never know, there might be a bug in the saving of documents that could cause you to loose a lot of work. Never ever use beta software (and certainly not a tp) as main software.

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No, it's a beta, you shouldn't be using it to edit or create documents for your work or schoolassignments. You never know, there might be a bug in the saving of documents that could cause you to loose a lot of work. Never ever use beta software (and certainly not a tp) as main software.

Unless its windows 7 :p :D

But on the serious side - I wouldnt recommend using office 2010 as main suite considering its still in early stages.

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I'd be careful using it. I think the early leaked versions of office 2007 saved documents in a format that couldn't be read properly in the final version.

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I've actually not experienced any problems with the technical preview. It's fast, stable, and even the upgrade from 2007 worked well.

But then again, it's a technical preview. It's not complete, there are bugs and it will probably expire soon. Why not just wait for the RTM, or at the very least, the beta?

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Personally I'd hold off, we all know what happened with the early versions of Windows 7 where they deleted the beginning of some MP3s!

Or if you go far back to the Office 2007 BETA days you'll have even more painful memories. I was a beta tester for that version and I remember the countless new builds where the new file format used in the earlier build wasn't supported in the latest build. Meaning you'd have files that didn't work in later builds, even RTM. Microsoft never released an "upgrade" tool either so that's a risk factor too with 2010.

With that in mind, I'm on 2010 still :p

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the technical preview I mean, is it safe to use for documents?

what if it crashes or a bug erases everything in the document =S

I am using a RC release OS and I am using Office 2010 as my single and only Office App. I am not having any issues with it. Outlook is really fast. I am using the 64Bit version of Office 2010 and Win 7 RC 7100.

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Been using it quite abit lately for school work ect so id say its pritty stable for everyday use. Also if you like to make PDF's adobes PDF addon for Office works in 2010.

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Been using it quite abit lately for school work ect so id say its pritty stable for everyday use. Also if you like to make PDF's adobes PDF addon for Office works in 2010.

I'm interested to use 2010. I hear it's "pritty" good ect as wellllll

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Valid point brought up here, since many people are already using 2010 as their default office now, it would be okay to try it out. But I too fear losing my documents mid way due to some random crash.

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It's certainly not the smartest thing to do but ... I'm using it on my work PC and work laptop and it works great :) I can open the files in office 2007 and I have to save alot in 2003 mode. It works for me... Finally I can use my groove workspace on my X64 win 7

That said I still have a office 2007 running in a virtual machine if I get stuck.

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For everyday use, you should not be using Windows 7 and you should not be using an office suit which is not even been publicly released as a Beta.

That used to be true, but it's an RC now, and more stable then any RC has ever previously been.

I wouldn't be suprised if hundreds of thousands/millions of people are using it as their primary OS. I know alot of people using so could imagine it's true.

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Been using it quite abit lately for school work ect so id say its pritty stable for everyday use. Also if you like to make PDF's adobes PDF addon for Office works in 2010.

I guess the spell check still needs some work.

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I confirm file format problems may arise: I've been @ tech beta for 2003 and 2007 and I remember files created with *some* (probably - earlier) beta builds couldn't be opened with the final version at all.

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I'm using W7 RC and Office 2010 Tech prev. I'd say go for it, especially if you're a x64 user.

The whole office suite feels a lot faster, especially Outlook (with my IMAP accounts, IMAP performance is really bad in Office 2007).

I don't think Office 2010 will blow up your documents, with Office 2007 they introduced a whole new way of storing your documents (the zipped XML architecture). That's not the case with Office 2010. So I think you're pretty safe.

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