Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Anybody trying it out? http://www.microsoft.com/2010/en/

Downloading it now - will post thoughts.

 

Downloading now.

 

I've briefly played with Microsoft Word, and just took a cursory glance at Oulook. Doesn't seem too different for me; I'll have to delve deeper though another time.

 

I downloaded and have a beta key, just haven't had time to remove 07 and install 2010
....but I will asap

 

You can keep them installed side-by-side. Just install 2010 in a directory outside of \programs or \program files. I installed mine in C:\Office2010. Then you'll be able to use 2007 and 2010 simultaneously.

What happens when 2010 is out of beta? Are you forced to buy it, or do you just re-install 2007 (if you uninstalled it in the first place)?

 

good call, I would of just reinstalled 07 if and when 2010 stopped working for me

 

I'm curious how Office 2010 renders HTML. 2007 was a complete flop in that respect and it uses its own engine, which is generally outputs pretty bad formatting in Outlook.

I also have a plugin for Xcel that has full functionality in 2003, but is limited in 2007, again, because of it's HTML engine.

 

'07 Works fine for me ~_~ I barely use it anyways.

 

The beta isnt too bad, looks and works fine to me other than those stupid customer feedback smilies in the system tray.

 

Yeah, I despise the stupid feedback smilies.

 

Official release of 2010

The slated ship date for Office 2010 is said to be next Summer, in June: Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June | Software News - Betanews

 

I don't like them looking at me.

I installed side by side my other MSOffice (xp, 2003, 2007) and anyone else notice outlook took over previous installs? Even express with asking me too.

 

I believe I did read somewhere that unless you have a certain version (either 32 or 64 bit -- can't remember which), Outlook will overwrite the older version. I don't recall where I read that though.

 

That actually looks pretty nice, especially Word and PP.

 

I've been using the Office Beta for a bit now, and I love it more than '07.

 

I still haven't had time to play with it much, so if I may ask: What are some of the most significant changes you have observed throughout any of the products? What are your favorite and least favorite changes or new features/tools?

 

The Interface.

Yep, that's it. The interface in 2010 is miles beyond previous versions.

That, and there is this spiffy feature that will display every Heading in a sidebar. If you click on the heading, it will take you to that part of the document.

That's really all I've done with it, since all I had to do was draft an announcement in it.

 

Nope, I'am sticking with Open Office.

I see no reason to pay for something like ms office, when I can get open office for free.