Confirm or Deny

re: Confirm or Deny

someone — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:58:27 GMT

1. What is the criteria for ones who sign up for the technical beta? Who get invited?

2. Will Microsoft include Visio in Ultimate? 3. Will testers who submit a certain number of bugs get a free copy of 2010 when it RTMs?

Eliminating Enterprise SKU?

Mr. Dee — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:28:04 GMT

My understanding is, Professional Plus is available under Volume License only, only difference is, it does not include Groove and OneNote today. Does that mean that with the Office 2010 release Microsoft is eliminating the Enterprise sku since both Pro Plus and Ent. would contain the same amount of applications and features?

The Office Team needs to create a Technical edition of Office with Visio Standard, Project Standard, OneNote, include Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint for persons who need those apps.

re: Confirm or Deny

someone — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:39:09 GMT

This makes ProPlus SKU same as Enterprise SKU?

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re: Confirm or Deny

dgainer — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:09:40 GMT

Hey Reed

Thanks for the info on hardware specs and OS support. What about Exchange Server versions and Outlook? We need to know that too.

Thanks

re: Confirm or Deny

CAdams1984 — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:13:53 GMT

I am looking forward to seeing what is changing with Groove (Sharepoint Workspace) and OneNote. They are both great products.

re: Confirm or Deny

CanadianJames — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:49:15 GMT

More People Getting Access to OneNote

Every time I flip open a copy of OneNote and jot something down, or paste in a screenie or to take some notes (or any one of the endless things I do in OneNote) someone asks me what software that is and I am floored that they aren’t already using it.

I’m actually (unreasonably) waiting for a commission cheque from Microsoft as an independent OneNote evangelist(...)

Responding to questions/comments

reedshaff — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:57:12 GMT

@ someone

We will determine participation in the beta based on our needs to get the right engineering feedback. E.g. we need to make sure we are getting the right amount of users by product, by vertical (finance uses Excel differently than engineering for example in some instances and we want to get feedback across the board)and more. As for the second question and third question, nothing decided yet that I can share but I like the idea of rewarding the people who provide the best feedback. We would probably want to weight it on quality of bug though and not just sheer number. I will look into this.

@mr dee and someone

You are correct in that ProPlus is only available under VL. We are simplifying the SKU lineup this time and are eliminating enterprise. Right now we are only releasing our lineup in the VL space.

@dgainer

Hm, this name looks familiar :-) I will put this information up in detail later this week in a seperate post.

@CanadianJames

Couldn't agree more (and thank you), to promote this again check out Iheartonenote.com, that's an independently run site. That said, agree we have to do more to evangelize it and will

Il futuro di Microsoft Groove

Igor Macori — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:37:18 GMT

Oggi mi è stato chiesto quale sarà il futuro di Microsoft Groove... ho fatto qualche ricerca sul Web

re: Confirm or Deny

Eugene Barreau — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:02 GMT

I want to be a beta tester again for ffice 2010 as I have been for previous versions. I am MicroSoft partner.