Official Office 2010 Tech Preview (Invitation)

[rpared01]

i got my invite yesterday and going to play around with the x64 verion today :)

[Livin in a box]

I've got one today! Huzzah!

Just need to install it!

[torrentthief]

wish they would invite me already, grr!

[qdave]

Finally! I've got invited as well. No more streaming pos :p

[Livin in a box]

Are all the keys unique, or are they like Win7, they just go in rotation?

[Omen1393]

oh wow, just checked my connect account and I just got an invite, awesome surprise for me.

Any idea on when these expire?

[Gibletz]

Just got an invite as well..

[way2quik]

Ugh.

Outlook 2010 crashed on me three times all because I added an email account. :laugh:

[Petvas]

I am also a tester of Office 2010 and so far I am not particularly happy with Outlook's stability. It crashes all the time, makes ost files corrupt and generally it cannot be used productively. Of course a beta should be used only for testing, but at this stage even that is extremely difficult with Outlook 2010. The other programs work ok though, since they didn't receive many changes, especially comparing with Outlook.

I look forward to Office 2010 when it becomes more stable, maybe with the next beta release, due this year.

[tranceandy]

When starting Outlook, it occasionally crashes. Starting it again solves that though. To be expected at this stage :p

[Lee G. Veteran]

I got invited yesterday too :)

[RickyXP]

Yup got it as well just installed on Windows 7 RTM - was sluggish until virtualization management was done downloading all the files.

[Mazhar]

Finally, I got my invite today!

[Techno_Funky]

Got invited yesterday, downloaded overnight. Installed it while dressing up for office. Will tinker around after I reach home from office. :D

[Mazhar]

Got invited yesterday, downloaded overnight. Installed it while dressing up for office. Will tinker around after I reach home from office. :D

Haha, funny though that you will do office after office! :laugh:

[DWillens]

I got my invite yesterday too. Question: do I need to uninstall the earlier build that I had installed from ummm, well, from somewhere else? I had been using that build since it first came out a few months ago. Or can I just install this build over the top of the earlier build?

Damon

[cwpenner]

I wouldn't install preview builds over preview builds. I'd wipe it and start clean.

[Loso]

is there any way to uninstally the Mondo build? just wondering if theres been a fix of some sorts or an un-install method i could use

[Livin in a box]

I posted this on Connect too, but I'll also post it here, just in case:

"Well, in any of my Office apps, when I go to the Office menu in, say,

Word, go to Options and look to the right, at the top it says I have

a license for this product. Right. But then underneath it says that I

am using a trial version, which will become unlicensed in 29 days.

Next to that is a 'Licensing Operations' tab, and if I click that and

go to 'Activate Product', it looks as though it will, then it tells

me my product key is not valid. I used my key from my Connect user in

installation, which was valid and everything.

So what does all this mean? Its confused me."

[the_scotsman]

I posted this on Connect too, but I'll also post it here, just in case:

"Well, in any of my Office apps, when I go to the Office menu in, say,

Word, go to Options and look to the right, at the top it says I have

a license for this product. Right. But then underneath it says that I

am using a trial version, which will become unlicensed in 29 days.

Next to that is a 'Licensing Operations' tab, and if I click that and

go to 'Activate Product', it looks as though it will, then it tells

me my product key is not valid. I used my key from my Connect user in

installation, which was valid and everything.

So what does all this mean? Its confused me."

As per the reply to your question in the beta newsgroup: https://connect.microsoft.com/office/Downlo...p;wa=wsignin1.0

;)

[Livin in a box]

As per the reply to your question in the beta newsgroup: https://connect.microsoft.com/office/Downlo...p;wa=wsignin1.0

;)

Ah, thanks for that.

[Techno_Funky]

The beta wont validate and leaves me around 24 days more usage, anybody else having this problem.

[Comic Book Guy]

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't read the full thing on the Connect site. It's stupid not to offer the TP in x64 version, I wonder who's smart idea that was!

[Zmijutin]

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't read the full thing on the Connect site. It's stupid not to offer the TP in x64 version, I wonder who's smart idea that was!

How come? Here is screenshot from my account and 64bit Office Installation Package.

[revanmj]

How come? Here is screenshot from my account and 64bit Office Installation Package.

Maybe he meant C2R version. It's 32-bit only.