Office 14 heads into external alpha testing
Microsoft has begun providing external companies with early access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server components.
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14.1.2009 Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year
Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web.
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20.8.2008 Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Leaked and Available for Download
A new development milestone of the next iteration of the Office System has been leaked and made available for download in the wild. Microsoft is currently making its way to the first Beta of office 2011, a release slated to be available to all users as a public testing build.
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31.8.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1007 Download with Project and Visio
Another new build of Microsoft Office 2010 from beta branch has been compiled by Microsoft mid October, and had since leaked to Internet. The Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 with build version 14.0.4514.1009.
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12.11.2009 Want to be an Office 12 Beta Tester?
Want to be an Office 12 Beta Tester? Visit the following source to sign up today!
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Windows 7 Office 14 - Happy together?
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to work better together.
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15.1.2009 Office 14 crawls toward beta
Just because Office 14 won't be fully released until next year doesn't mean consumers will have to wait that long to try out the products.
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4.3.2009 Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows.
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12.7.2007 Microsoft Not Discussing Windows 7, Office 14
Now that Vista and Office 2007 are officially out the door, Windows enthusiasts have been busy scrounging up what they can about the next versions of both products. Not much has turned up besides code-names and potential features, but a number of blog posts prompted Microsoft to say publicly that it's not saying anything.
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16.2.2007 A new hint about whats coming in Microsoft Office 14
Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of which is due in the first quarter of 2008.
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22.9.2007 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual Strategic Update briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 wont be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009 Office 14 slated for a 2009/2010 Release
The codename for the upcoming release of Office, currently slated for a 2009/2010 release timeframe, is Office 14.
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15.2.2007 Office 14 to add more online document sharing
Microsoft wont be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs.
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13.2.2008 Microsoft to Increasingly Open up on Office 14 and Windows 7
There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency.
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11.7.2008 Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000
Just about a week ago, WZOR leaked screenshots of Office 2010 build 14.0.4417.1000, which they managed to get their hands on.
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5.9.2009 Microsoft Lets Windows 7 Rest and Talks Office 14
Just as Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, so will Office 14 be the next version of the Office System, designed to replace Office 2007. And just as Windows 7 is a product version rather than a codename, the same is the case for Office 14.
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21.1.2008 Windows XP & Office 2003 mainstream support ends April 14
Just a quick reminder to Neowin users, both Windows XP and Office 2003 will leave mainstream support and enter extended support on April 14, 2009. This applies to the following Windows XP editions:
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5.4.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo Build 14.0.4417.1000 Screenshots Leaked
After Windows 7 RTM final leak its been big gap in leaking of under development product from Microsoft lab.
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30.8.2009 Monitor Tester 2.0.2
Monitor Tester can guide you in setting and adjusting the parameters and controls of your monitor.
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1.10.2007 Five things every Windows beta tester should know
Last week my colleague Mary Jo Foley reported on rumblings of discontent from the invitation-only Windows 7 technical beta test community.
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2.3.2009 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Firefox 3.0 Alpha released!
Today Firefox 3.0 Alpha was released to the public even before Firefox 2.0 has been released.
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9.4.2006 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 For Developers and Testers
Mozilla developer centre released its Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 today. Codenamed as Shiretoko Alpha 2, developers or testers who would like to give it a try can download it.
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9.9.2008 Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha screenshots
Here we are presenting screenshots from Windows Mobile 6.5 Alpha! Firstly here you can see the cell-form-based icons.
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26.1.2009 Office 2007 RTM download
The 2007 Microsoft Office System, also known as Microsoft Office 2007, is the most recent version of its productivity suite.
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12.11.2006 Office 2010 streaming-download
Microsoft has invited selected testers to try out a new way of delivering Office 2010 to customers using virtualization and streaming technologies.
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28.7.2009 Bon Echo Alpha 3 Milestone Released
Bon Echo Alpha 3 is the third developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 2. Ongoing planning for Firefox 2 can be followed at the Bon Echo Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #bonecho.
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29.5.2006 Microsoft launches Popfly, Alpha Invite Only
Microsoft has announced the alpha version launch of a new product called Popfly, a tool designed to help non-programmers in creating, sharing, and embedding mashups of content, feeds, web pages and gadgets.
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19.5.2007 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007Office 14 Alpha screenshots leak
Russian site Wzor has leaked some screenshots of the Office 14 alpha build that was handed out to select testers this week. The build is pictured
below installed onto Windows 7 and it doesn't appear like the UI has been overhauled yet and remains very similar to Office 2007. We revealed a
possible Office 14 concept screenshot earlier this week before alpha testers received the official build. According to Alpha testers Microsoft is
targeting a 2009 release and Office 14 could possibly be named Office System 2009. Below you can see Word 14 in the first screenshot (click to
expand): Excel 14 (click to expand): About Office 14 (click to expand):
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15.01.2009Office 14 heads into external alpha testing
Microsoft has begun providing external companies with early access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server components. According to Mary Jo Foley
some external testers say they've now got access to documentation outlining what's coming in the imminent alpha build. Testers are expected to
receive alpha code of SharePoint Server 14 and Office for Sales 14. Microsoft also told the alpha testers to expect a "first beta"of Office 14 later
this year. Mary Jo also questioned Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President of Office Live and Exchange on the release schedule of Office 14, Jha said
to expect Microsoft to update customers "later this quarter" about its rollout and release plans for Office 14.
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14.01.2009Select testers get Office 14 alpha release
Microsoft has begun providing selected testers with access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server wares.
Heres Microsofts
statement, delivered via a spokesperson on January 13...
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14.01.2009Alpha Testers Required for Microsoft Partner Programme Online Partner Network
Jeremy Paulmer: Be the first to test drive our new Partner Programme Online Partner Network. It's like the Microsoft Partner version of Facebook
giving you the ability to network with other Microsoft Partners and employees, kick of a discussion or join a debate.
The
platform is currently in Alpha, but the exciting thing is that it's all built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. If you'd like to be
considered as an Alpha tester, please
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29.02.2008Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year
Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was
later pulled from the Web. According to the blog posting, by Hayley Rixon, who works on the Microsoft business intelligence team, Microsoft is calling
for people to be part of a technology adoption program (TAP) that will give them an early opportunity to test the monitoring and analytics components
of Office PerformancePoint Server.
The TAP for this product will be a part of the TAP for Office 14, the alpha test of which will begin in
the "November/December timeframe this year," according to the blog posting. Office PerformancePoint Server is business performance analysis software
that will be a part of the Office 14 release. While the blog posting was live on Microsoft's Technet site on Monday afternoon Eastern time, by
afternoon on the West coast the Web site was no longer working. The post also no longer appears on Rixon's blog.
Microsoft could not be
reached for comment Tuesday about the site no longer being active. However, on Monday through its public relations firm Microsoft said that while the
Office team is working on the next version, "it is too early to discuss specific features, capabilities or timing" for the product. The deadline for
submissions to be a part of the Office PerformancePoint Server TAP is Aug. 28, according to the post.
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20.08.2008Office 14: New details surface
TechARP has come up with the preliminary dates planned for the program milestones of Office 14, the latest version of Microsoft's Office
productivity suite. Accoring to this latest schedule: Office 14 SKU lineup will be announced in Q2, 2009Office 14 OEM royalty rates will be announced
in Q3, 2009Office 14 marketing strategy and opportunities for OEM partners is scheduled for Q4, 2009 Neowin earlier cited that Office 14 beta 1 would
be released in early July and Office 14 beta 2 in early November. The RTM release could happen as early as March 2010 and could arrive in 32 bit and
64 bit flavors.
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26.03.2009Next-generation Mozilla Thunderbird in Alpha 1, called 'Shredder'
A developer preview release of Mozilla's next version of the Thunderbird e-mail client has been made available to the developer and tester community...
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16.05.2008Office 14 to be named Microsoft Office System 2009?
Microsoft is currently developing the successor to Office 2007, Office codenamed "14". There has been little to no information on the upcoming
Office version and many have speculated we might not see the product until 2010. Microsoft failed to provide any solid information at last years PDC,
choosing to focus on its Office Live offerings. Eagled eyed Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman has spotted what appears to be an
internal software roadmap from Microsoft. The roadmap reveals a milestone of year end 2009 but the dates aren't very clear: In the roadmap you
can see that Office 14 is clearly identified as Microsoft Office System 2009.
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07.01.2009Microsoft confirms Office 14 support for Windows XP
Even though the recent word that the next version of Microsoft Office, dubbed Office 14, was delayed until next year, we have good news for those of
you who are still using Windows XP. Microsoft's Chris Capossela has informed the Silicon Valley Insider that Office 14 will run on Windows XP,
Windows Vista, and Windows 7. In a statement Capossela noted: "Our install base of Office 2003 and 2007 is actually quite quite high in enterprises
even if XP is what most enterprises are still using on their PCs. We're looking at XP
with some service pack.
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neowin.net - 03.03.2009
Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
Despite Windows 7's release looming over the horizon, ZDNet has stated that Steve Ballmer himself said, "Office 14 will not be this year," in an
interview with analysts at the Wall Street Journal. Keen readers will notice that Ballmer called it Office 14, and not Office System 2009 which it
could possibly be named on release. Many people thought that Microsoft would time the new Office revision along with Windows 7's release, as many
businesses prefer to upgrade to a new OS and a new Office suite at the same time, but Ballmer has dashed all thoughts of this happening.
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neowin.net - 25.02.2009
Office 2010 screenshots emerge
Office 2010, the next version of Microsoft's successful office programs suite, has been in closed testing for a while now. With a public beta
expected later in the year, development is stepping up before the program, previously dubbed Office 14, is finally let out into the wild. Earlier
this year we posted some screenshots of alpha builds of Word and Excel, and just over a week ago Zack Whittaker posted some new screenshots on his
iGeneration blog. Here are some images of the new about screen of Office and screenshots of the new version of Outlook, including the ribbon toolbar.
Click the images to enlarge where they are scaled down.
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neowin.net - 28.04.2009
Office 14 Alpha TAP Submission Deadline 28th August 2008
Hayley Rixon: The Monitoring & Analytics component of PerformancePoint Server will be included in the O14 Alpha TAP...
The
product team in Redmond are looking for customer and partner submissions now :- )
The Alpha process will begin in the
November/December timeframe this year. When you submit, please identify as a PPS M&A candidate. The deadline for submissions is August
28th.
Please email me directly with your requests...hrixon@microsoft.com
winbeta.org - 15.08.2008
Is a tester ever done with testing?
My name is Suma Sushilendra and I have been a tester in C# IDE team since August 02. I have owned testing C# IDE features for Visual Studio 2003,
Visual Studio 2005 and now for Visual Studio 2008, also known as Orcas. Over these products and the last 5 years, I have owned testing almost all
the IDE features except refactoring and debugging features.
There is so much that can be spoken of testing and here I am setting
stage for a burning question that has continued to amuse me for the past 5 years of life as a tester, at every cycle during a product development.
What I present here is entirely how I feel and deal with it.
When I began my career as a tester, there were a few basic rules of
the road that I became familiar with and got to learn a set of processes and methodologies to follow along with some tools in order to make progress
in the testing tasks I was made the owner of. As time grew, the tasks became responsibilities and owning testing of a feature became really being
accountable for its quality.
Just for the sake of simplicity, lets define (re-define) a few terms for making the point that this
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winbeta.org - 15.10.2007
First Office 14 screenshot unveiled?
Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman sends word that he has discovered an early concept Office 14 screenshot from a PowerPoint
presentation hosted on Microsoft.com. The screenshot itself appears to be from a slide deck detailing Grava's intergration into Office 14. Grava
is a set of tools developed for the needs of those creating educational content. Stephen says he "noticed that instead of the Office logo in the orb,
there's a 'G' to obviously signify Grava, so does this mean we're looking at a standalone Grava application or a conceptual idea for
how the interface of Office might change to signify the user is currently using Grava?
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neowin.net - 11.01.2009
Microsoft honing its 'better together' story for Windows 7 and Office 14
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to
trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to "work better together."
Microsoft isn’t planning to
integrate Win 7 and O14 to anywhere near the degree that it is integrating Windows Live and Win 7, sources say. But officials are looking for ways
that users who buy both of these new products will be able to take advantage of how O14 “lights up” on Win 7.
winbeta.org - 15.01.2009
Microsoft: Office 14 Web apps should run on Macs
In a surprise correction of information BetaNews received at PDC 2008 last month, a Microsoft spokesperson now says its forthcoming Office Web apps
with Office 14 will run on platforms other than Windows...
betanews.com - 18.11.2008
Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Review
Mozilla has released Firefox
3.6 Alpha 1, the first development step in the way for Firefox 3.6 (code named Namoroka), targeted for later this year.
One
of the main themes in this release is making Firefox feel snappier to the user: whether you are launching it, opening a new tab, a sidebar, there is a
difference on whether the action is done fast and perceived fast...
winbeta.org - 09.08.2009
Microsoft Office 14 to arrive late 2009/early 2010
The beta program for Microsoft Office 14 (likely to be named Microsoft Office 2009) may not have begun, but according to a blog post on the
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online blog, the release of Office 14 and related products is expected to occur as early as the end of next year...
winbeta.org - 31.07.2008
Betanews Alpha is now on RSS
betanews.com - 19.01.2009
'Office 14' to be more Web-friendly, Gates says
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked publicly for the first time on Monday about the next big Office release, code-named Office 14, which he said will
give users new ways to access their applications online.
Microsoft won't provide the full functionality of Office online, but it
will offer limited capabilities to view and edit the data in Office applications. It already does this for its Outlook e-mail client with a product
called Outlook Web Access, and it will offer similar capabilities for other applications in Office 14, Gates said in a speech at the Microsoft Office
System Developer Conference in San Jose, California.
"Outlook Web Access is not the full version of Office, but if you want to
go into a kiosk or an Internet cafe and browse and connect, it gives you plenty of functionality," he said. "As we look at all the modules , we have in mind the equivalent of Outlook Web Access," Gates said.
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