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Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta and Office Web Apps Beta

Deeps — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:16 GMT

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications. Office Professional Plus 2010 provides smart, simple, time-saving tools to help everyone do more with less.

See Microsoft Office 2010 for yourself

We are inviting IT professionals around the world to work with the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta in your lab environments, with your secondary PCs, and with your Microsoft Office enthusiasts, in order to help ensure smooth adoption when the final product is available and to gather feedback from real-world settings.

Download the Beta here
Participate in the TechNet Office 2010 Forum
Keep up to date by reading the Office Team Blog and follow them on Twitter

Office Web Apps
Microsoft Office Web Apps are new web-based tools that extend the Microsoft Office 2010 experience to your browser. Office Web Apps enable you to view, do light editing, and share your Office documents from virtually anywhere. With these online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote you’ll always have the tools you need, wherever you are. Get on the beta for Office Web Apps.

Live Meetings – Office 2007 Deployment Series

Deeps — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:46:00 GMT

We have the following Office 2007 Deployment Live Meetings sessions happening in June.

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 1: Get Started with your Office Deployment
Event Overview
With Service Pack 2 recently made available, it is a good time to update your desktop software to take advantage of the productivity improvements, server integration and collaboration capabilities. In this session, learn about the best approaches to Office 2007 deployment. Understand how to get started on the deployment journey and the tools and resources available to you.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites. Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional. Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 2: Office and Virtualisation
Event Overview
Application Virtualization solves many problems encountered in a traditional deployment. Mitigate application migration challenges by allowing users to run any version of Office without a maintenance overhead, reduce the amount of regression testing and stream Office to your users quickly through virtualization.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 3: Office Training and Readiness
Event Overview
Office 2007 introduced a new user interface. In this session you will travel back to the early planning stages of Office 2007 and get a look at how and why this happened. But more importantly, learn the tools, techniques and approaches to accelerate adoption and reduce resistance to change and make your Office deployment successful.

Language(s): English.
Product(s): 2007 Microsoft Office suites.
Audience(s): IT Manager,IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East)
Click here to Register

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is ready for download

Deeps — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:30:04 GMT

2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) gives customers the latest updates for the 2007 Office suite. This service pack includes two main categories of fixes:

Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack.
- In addition to general product fixes, these fixes include improvements in stability, in performance, and in security.
All the public updates, security updates, cumulative updates, and hotfixes that were released through February 2009.

It is available on Windows Update or you can download it through the Microsoft Download Center

Have a read through a description of the new 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

For those of you who will be deploying SP2 across your organisation please read the maintaining an Office Installation information on TechNet

Is Microsoft Clippy making a comeback?

Deeps — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:29:00 GMT

I found the following in the office today, couldnt help but to take a picture of him!

Its my old mate Microsoft Clippy! I dont think hes making a comeback since he didnt have that many friends back in the day, but good to see hes still smiling and enjoying his retirement. Im sure he was thinking of saying "It looks like your taking a picture....Would you like help?"

I did a search on Microsoft Clippy and found a Microsoft Clippy game which is still up and running on the Microsoft Taiwan site! Give it a go.

I wonder where Peddy the parrot is hanging out?

And no Clippy assures us hes not making a comeback.