Matt Brindley: Office 2007 Beta 2 Screen Shots

Microsoft have released Office 2007 beta 2, you can download it here.

The install was a bit rough, it just wouldn't get along with anything on my machine, in the end, I had to Start > Run > msconfig > startup > disable all (then check my virus/spyware scanners etc). Restart and try again, a few errors but we got there in the end.

First run of Word 2007 was just as rough - 2 crashes of explorer and one of IE.

For those of you considering installing it - the good news is that it kept Office 2003 installed for me.

But, after persevering, I managed to get some screen shots of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook - oh, and a real treat for all you web standards developers - I've built a site using publisher (I say built, it was just a template), you can find it in all it's table and inline styles glory here:

http://www.mattbrindley.com/publisher07/

Don't forget to check out the source :)

Anyway, back to Office 07 - it looks really nice! I like the ribbon control, it's very quick to use, and applies it's changes on hovering over as a kind of preview - but inline. It's very smart. I'm not going to review Office 07 here, but here's some screen shots for those of you who won't be/can't download it.

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