Microsoft is Looking for Office 2010 Home and Student Beta Testers
Microsoft is Looking for Office 2010 Home and Student Beta Testers
Posted 06/28/2009 at 3:52pm
| by Justin Kerr
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For those of you who found yourselves breathless with anticipation after watching the Office 2010 Movie Trailers, you might just be the perfect candidate for the technical preview. Currently Microsoft is looking beta testers who fall into the home, or student category, and are willing to fill out a short survey via the connect website. The survey will ask for basic information about your PC, your OS, and what you currently use for an office suite, nothing overly personal. You will need a free Windows Live account (or Hotmail), and it sounds like they are looking for plenty of volunteers.
People with Office 2007 probably won’t notice much of a difference, but I highly encourage curious users with older versions of Office, as well as Open Office, to give the new ribbon UI a try. It takes some getting used to, but does a pretty good job of exposing functionality that was previously hidden to novice or casual users.
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alanmc76
June 29, 2009 at 5:31am
Finally, a 64bit Office suite. Got my application filled out, now just have to wait and see...
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dracx619
June 29, 2009 at 2:41am
nice, they used videocopilot.net effect presets for this, as well as some tracks from their music library. why do i bring it up? meh, no reason, i just recognized it is all.
Icewolf132
June 28, 2009 at 9:07pm
Sadly, a good handfull of intro classes in College (mainly the intro to computers and business 101 classes) require the latest version of Microsoft Office. There are ways around it, but it is a pain.
Havok
June 28, 2009 at 4:46pm
Well, almost always. Still, I'm expecting even more hate toward a new version of Office. As long as the Outlook team stays out of the devolopment, it might be alright.
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