Quick question

[ricochet]

Not strictly OneNote related, but I need to install BTR2 without the
first version installed. Anyone know where I can get the first beta?
I'd deleted the original beta exe, uninstalled and then realized I
needed it to upgrade. Help! thanks.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Not strictly OneNote related, but I need to install BTR2 without the
first version installed. Anyone know where I can get the first
beta?

You can still download all of the Office 2007 Beta from the MS Beta
website.
You have to pay the download fee of $ 1.50.

Rainald

 

[ricochet]

Thanks, but I can't find the link to save my life... Help?

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview


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[ricochet]

That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
eventually.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Thanks, but I can't find the link to save my life... Help?

 

[Chris H.]

The means to beta builds is on a link in the left pane which Patrick
supplied: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/overview.mspx
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
eventually.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
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Thanks, but I can't find the link to save my life... Help?

Rainald Taesler wrote:
ricochet wrote:
Not strictly OneNote related, but I need to install BTR2 without
the
first version installed. Anyone know where I can get the first
beta?

You can still download all of the Office 2007 Beta from the MS Beta
website.
You have to pay the download fee of $ 1.50.

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

On that page, you could have just found the link to the download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/download/en/default.mspx

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
eventually.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Thanks, but I can't find the link to save my life... Help?

Rainald Taesler wrote:
ricochet wrote:
Not strictly OneNote related, but I need to install BTR2 without the
first version installed. Anyone know where I can get the first
beta?

You can still download all of the Office 2007 Beta from the MS Beta
website.
You have to pay the download fee of $ 1.50.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
eventually.

It seems that you are spectacularly unthankful!

Don't blame others fro not being unable to read what's in a menu.
The second item in the naviagtion menu of the site for which Patrick
sent the URL reads:
"Get the Beta or Take the Test Drive".
Clicking there leads to the place for the download.

Rainald

 

[ricochet]

Yes, it sure does. But the links from there give you, *drum roll
please* BETA 2! And that doesn't help you if you don't have BETA 1
installed!

It wasn't an inability to find the Beta place, which is the first place
that google returns when you search for Microsoft Office 2007 -- it is
trying to find the FIRST beta so that the Techinical Refresh can be
installed. I did eventually get it -- via bit torrent.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Not sure what you are talking about. You need to install Beta 2 and then
you can install Beta 2 Technical Refresh. Beta 1 was never made
available public and also has expired by now, so I don't see how
installing that could be any use for you.
The link was correct, you simply didn't know what to install.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
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[Rainald Taesler]

Yes, it sure does. But the links from there give you, *drum roll
please* BETA 2! And that doesn't help you if you don't have BETA 1
installed!

WRONG!
Seriously wrong.
I have no idea on who might have told you such nonsense.

One does *not* need Beta 1 at all (except for doing research in the
field of software archaelogy <gbg>).

Just installing Beta 2 and then patching that with the B2TR patch is
fully sufficient.

It wasn't an inability to find the Beta place, which is the first
place
that google returns when you search for Microsoft Office 2007 -- it
is
trying to find the FIRST beta so that the Techinical Refresh can be
installed.

The First Beta is unnecessary as as flue in mid-summer.

I did eventually get it -- via bit torrent.

And there was no use at all that you found that.
In the future: Do not google around, beware of WAREZ-like sites, just
go to the *normal* places offered by MS for their products and do what
you are told there.

No one to be blamed but *YOU* yourself.
As said before: You seem to have problems to just read <g,d&rvvvf>.

Rainald