This has been what I’ve been waiting for: the Office 12 Beta is now publicly available. PC World has more here. CNet has its early opinions here on the Office 12 Beta.
Do I recommend that everyone go download and install the Office 12 Beta? No. But if you have some extra time and a virtual PC or a spare drive, go for it. Note: You will have to sign in with a Passport account and fill out a short online form to get the beta. (So far I haven’t been able to initiate the download. Maybe the file isn’t completely public yet.)
You can preview and download the Office 12 Beta by clicking here.
I am getting this error over and over…
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Keeping my fingers crossed that it works soon.
It looks like we’re not the only ones that are keenly interested in the Office 12 Beta download 🙂
Managed to get the downloads late yesterday afternoon after problems during the middle of the day but there seems to be a problem getting Activation to work with the new public beta of OneNote. Since there’s a 50 use limit before features get disabled, while I’d like to use it exclusively, since the file formats are apparently not interchangeable with the 2003 version, any word on when activation will start working? I know it’s not a universal problem but there are definitely some who haven’t gotten it to work including myself on two different computers both at home and at work so it’s not a network issue.