May 23, 2006

Download Microsoft Office 2007 beta customer adventures, add-ins and toolbars — by TDavid @ 2:39 pm PST (9 votes, average: 4 out of 5)  Loading ...

Office 2007 beta is now available for download, sort of. Servers are most definitely getting pounded and all I’m seeing so far are browser error messages. Will keep at it.

The full suite is over 2GB, ouch, don’t want to pay their download bill this week. And speaking of bandwidth, I learned that they burned more than 60 TB on Xbox Live during E3. Yowsa!

Please let me know if/when you get in and what you think.

Update 1:01pm PST: Was able to get through the first screen and fill out a brief online questionaire and then ended up at errors.

Then got further to a spot to actually check boxes to choose the software to download. And then errors. Will keep at it while doing other work.

Update 7:31pm PST: Downloaded and installed. Going through it all now.

11 Comments »

1. Will be available on BT tomorrow.

   Comment by Mike — May 23, 2006 @ 3:24 pm PST

2. I just tried and it worked for me.

   Comment by Tejas Patel — May 23, 2006 @ 6:57 pm PST

3. Thanks Tejas, I see they are adding more server capacity. I was able to download a couple of the programs, still working on the others.mnicro

   Comment by TDavid — May 23, 2006 @ 7:16 pm PST

4. hi i want microsoft office 2007

   Comment by kike — May 26, 2006 @ 1:17 pm PST

5. Yeh, I’ve been getting error messages too, must be worth it though

   Comment by Sam — May 28, 2006 @ 10:46 am PST

6. I got the Professional Plus 2007, but the installer stops, saying that I don’t have Microsoft Office Premium or something and thus can’t continue. Then it rips everything away. Does anyone know how to fix this, or what to download in its stead?

   Comment by TheGreatBob — May 29, 2006 @ 6:36 pm PST

7. hi i want microsoft beta thankssssssss

   Comment by mic — May 30, 2006 @ 11:31 am PST

8. […] I have heard and talked to people who swear this is true but I’ve never experienced this firsthand because all of our servers are UNIX-based and 99% of the customers/clients I work with also use servers running some form of Linux. Clearly, I’m inexperienced with Windows servers, so I’m just throwing out user experience as a guide, not developer experience. Also, I’m reminded of recent events like Microsoft releasing their betas for download and experiencing — see screenshot above — of errors from programs because of server load. Scaling? Sorry, although their MySpace example is definitely compelling, not sure I buy this one. […]

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9. Clicked on the link, got the “test drive” today box. doesnt help me download the beta….

   Comment by Tim — November 19, 2006 @ 11:11 pm PST

10. Hi,

    I wonder if anyone could assist me or post a message for someone else?

    I have been an Office Beta tester from the get go and also upgraded the new tech release 2 and then i had a computer crash and lost the initial beta install which I need to be able to reinstall the tech release. I still have all my product keys in my email folder, so that is still ok. I see microsoft only have the only demo currently hence I am trying to find someone who has a copy I can download?

    Please advise?

    Thanks and happy holidays!

    Clive

    Comment by Clive — November 22, 2006 @ 7:48 pm PST

11. yes sir, i now load ms office 2007. on my pc.

    Comment by avay — March 27, 2007 @ 1:09 am PST

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