MS Office 2010 Technical Preview program closing

[Dark Nova Gamer]

As Microsoft gets closer to a public beta of the next version of Office (Announced last week), the company has just announced that the Technical Preview program for Office 2010 is coming to an end. In the e-mail set to participants, Microsoft noted that the public beta will be available sometime next month. Participants will still be able to access the Office 2010 Connect site for the next few weeks until the public beta.

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[Martin]

Just received that email

 

[ochiru]

I got the same mail too. I used the Technical Preview in my work laptop everyday so I got to report couple of bugs to MS.

 

[abuttino]

Thank god, the recent release of Outlook has decimated my folders.

 

[boe]

Nothing beneficial for most businesses

Nothing beneficial for most businesses – no reason to upgrade/purchase –
Like Vista – all bling – no function.

If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have -

1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers.

2. Full OLE support for pictures in access – umm wasn’t that functional with Office XP – why take that out? Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database? Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code. Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution?

3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don’t want to learn the new menu bar. You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar. Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I’m one person and most of my clients don’t like it so prefer to stick with office 2003. MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.