Official Office 2010 Tech Preview (Invitation)

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Petvas

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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.

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DWillens

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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?

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Livin in a box

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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."

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the_scotsman

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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

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Zmijutin

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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.

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