Public Office 2007 Beta
Posted in Tech by Dan at 3:02 pm
This post was published 3 years 9 months 30 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.This one for those who need to once again be on the bleeding edge.
The Office 2007 beta is available as a download to the general public, but will expire on 31 January 2007. Office 2007 Beta Office 2007’s most visible new feature is a user interface that will change according to the task that a user is performing.
Does it run on Mac OS X?
Nope – XP only
That’s right. Microsoft is one of the only big app makers that treats Mac customer completely differently than other users. They use Mac software revenues to offset X-Box losses. Did you know that?
Of course I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t acknowledge that Apple does the same thing, but that COMPLETELY different because, because, well it’s simple really, they think different you know?
The funny thing is that Apple distributes some technology across platforms in order to be a standards leader, like with Quicktime. Other software like iTunes is there to act as a trojan horse. I think it would be great if Apple made a Windows version of Safari. I wonder how much market share it would have. Probably very little huh? Well I think it’s just dandy on the Mac.
Why won’t MS support WMP on Mac or Linux? Why won’t apple support Quicktime on Linux? Too many distributions? Have to make the player source code available to compile?
The download is absolutely swamped anyway. You will never get good speeds with it tonight.
Ya, it wont even let me Start a download, none the less have a slow one :(
but doesnt matter, was just gunna use boot camp to see how it runs .
For those of you having trouble downloading the beta off the site, you might want to try bittorrent. I am sure someone has uploaded & is seeding it right now…
4hrs left :D
too bad that wont reseed the Fin….ummm i mean, never mind -_-
The sods have made it so you have to pay to download it now. Seeing as they claim this is to support their download servers, I’dve thought it fine to mirror it. So, anyone know of a free mirror? :-D
Cheers,