MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Office 2007 delayed

By now I'm sure you've seen the news that Microsoft will be delaying the release of Office 2007 until sometime in "early 2007". While I certainly support their decision to not release the software until it's ready, I do have one question that I haven't seen addressed in any of the media announcements today.

Will the expiration date for Beta 2 be moved back as well?

Here's the reason I ask, my copy of the beta is set to expire Feb 1, 2007. After that it will go into "reduced" feature mode. I'm looking at the distinct possibility of having data in formats that won't work in Office 2003, specifically OneNote pages, and not even having the ability to purchase Office 2007 yet in order to continue working with that data and documents. Hopefully we'll see some announcement about that soon.

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