Leaked: newer Office 2010 Technical Preview build

Dark Nova Gamer · 01 Aug 2009

Barman58 said:

It appears on mine of course as I am participating - if I sign out it appears with a note to sign in to check availability

- thanks MS

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All I can suggest is to keep checking back and hopefully they will re-open the connection to new testers

Its.. not... fair!

I'm already signed up for Windows 7 Beta/RC, MSE, Windows Azure. Oh well looks like I'm stuck waiting.

Lordbob75 · 01 Aug 2009

You can sign up, but it does not guarantee acceptance.

Information

Please do not PM me for links anymore. The link to the leak I had no longer works, and I cannot (and will not) leak the Tech Preview MS gave me.
Sorry.

~Lordbob

Lee · 01 Aug 2009

Thank you lordbob75, have been having the same problem with friends, they keep asking me for a copy. My oldest son (41) almost got on his knees, but being a dad it is easy to say no to a son/daughter, you started when they first learned to ask you for money.

Lordbob75 · 01 Aug 2009

Lee said:

Thank you lordbob75, have been having the same problem with friends, they keep asking me for a copy. My oldest son (41) almost got on his knees, but being a dad it is easy to say no to a son/daughter, you started when they first learned to ask you for money.

~Lordbob

Zidane24 · 01 Aug 2009

I am surprised I was invited myself

Zidane24 · 02 Aug 2009

Barman58 said:

Warning

If Google and Bing are both down

and you must ask for information on sources of this type of leak please use the personal message system,

link requests in the forums will be removed and further action may be taken against the poster

You have been warned!

Yay!!!Use the PMS system for those links!

jimbo45 · 02 Aug 2009

I'm sure "In due course" it should appear on Technet for more testers to get it 100% legally.

Can anybody tell me if it's been improved from the "leaked" version from around April / May.

I found the (at that time) white bland background horrible - not possible to customise it further - and didn't see any particular reason to upgrade from Office 2007. The only advantage at that time was the fact that a 64 bit version would eventually be available but for these types of applications it doesn't really matter if it's 32 / 64 bit since even a large spreadsheet is unlikely to test the resources of even a quite modest modern laptop.

However this was a very early probable even pre-alpha version so I hope its a lot better now.

Any testers out there -- significant differences from 2007 -- from the point of a Workstation user --not really interested in the "Windows Live" or "Corporate collaboration" pieces.

Cheers
jimbo

tw33k · 02 Aug 2009

I'm waiting to see if I'm accepted. I won't touch a leaked version at this stage but I am looking forward to some of the improvements I have read about.I rely on Office heavily, particularly Outlook and One Note.

Barman58 · 02 Aug 2009

Look and feel has not really changed much from 2007 although the office button is now replaced with a more subtle tab :), also it now allows you tom customize the ribbon - something that's been needed as everyone works differently.

Will try to put together some screen-shots and notes over the next week as I play with it more, and post back :)

Lordbob75 · 02 Aug 2009

Here is a screenshot of Outlook.

~Lordbob

EDIT: I added one of Word as well. I believe those are the two most commonly used.