Office 2007 Beta

[The BaudLess one]

This question may be more generic than just Office 2007 Beta.

I installed office 2007 beta on my kid's machine, a 2.9 gH Celeron w. two
hard drives, one 150gB, one 10gB that's running XP Professional. However
this machine DOES NOT have internet access. My question is how do I get
office updates for this machine? Also I'd like to check out some of the
sites recommended by the Beta's help facility on my machine at work but many
of these pages give me a message that reads "Microsoft Office Online Beta
Authorization Error Page" This message makes sense but it's a problem for me.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

There aren't any "updates" for the beta. To use the sites that are
recommended by the beta, you have to have the beta on that system.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

There are no updates to this beta issued via Microsoft/Windows Update.
Microsoft simply doesn't offer any patches for beta versions.
Can you access http://officebeta.iponet.net ?

Patrick Schmid

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

At present, there haven't been any updates released to Office 2007's Beta 2. To access the MS Office Online preview site on a
machine that does not have MS Office 2007 Beta 2 installed you'll need to install the activeX control from link #4 below.

Office 2007 requires activation prior to 50 uses of any combination of its applications and the activation is only supported via an
online connection.

==========This question may be more generic than just Office 2007 Beta.

I installed office 2007 beta on my kid's machine, a 2.9 gH Celeron w. two
hard drives, one 150gB, one 10gB that's running XP Professional. However
this machine DOES NOT have internet access. My question is how do I get
office updates for this machine? Also I'd like to check out some of the
sites recommended by the Beta's help facility on my machine at work but many
of these pages give me a message that reads "Microsoft Office Online Beta
Authorization Error Page" This message makes sense but it's a problem for me.

Does anyone have any suggestions? >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress

2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033

b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net