Office 2007 Beta activation

[Stu H]

Hi,
Got lucky and was able to download Office 2007 b4 everything got
swamped- But now;when I try to activate;I get an error message saying I
don't have an internet connection. Definitely do have one;or else couldn't
send this post. Any help?

Jeff

 

[Rob]

I too have also e-mailed the team with details and a screen shot to see what
can be done.

 

[Shawn Keene]

WOW... Over 85 posts... Think anyone at Microsoft has noticed that this
ENTIRE NEWGROUP is full of nothing but activation problems? C'mon, restart
your server already!


Shawn

 

[Bob I]

Uploaded Office 2007?!??!?!?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Do you honestly think they are sitting on their butts doing nothing?

 

[Bosco]

I'm sure they are working on it too. However, would it hurt someone
from the MS team to issue a brief notice that at least acknowledges the
issue on their end? If they plan on posting some form of notice, they
must be typing it out with their toes.

What is the email address we can complain to? It's a crazy idea, but
perhaps it can be suggested that if they want the product evaluated and
tested, it might just help if we could access it.

Bosco

 

[stu]

Add me to the no activation "post" count.

 

[Onesolo]

Hi,
Got lucky and was able to download Office 2007 b4 everything got
swamped- But now;when I try to activate;I get an error message saying I
don't have an internet connection. Definitely do have one;or else couldn't
send this post. Any help?

Jeff

I still can't activate, tried all day and no luck. We need to make this
problem more visible. I don't see this exposed on the majors news internet
sites, like theregister, inquire, neowin, etc...
Please make noise....

 

[marmel]

Anyone able to activate on 05-24? The only successful activations seem to
have taken place yesterday. Running out of my 50 here. Getting scared as I
uninstalled 2003.

 

[stu]

Nice idea; but I think "Beta 2" is more about creating a market hook then
about testing... or, maybe not.

 

[Bob I]

:



I still can't activate, tried all day and no luck. We need to make this
problem more visible. I don't see this exposed on the majors news internet
sites, like theregister, inquire, neowin, etc...
Please make noise....

What part of Beta don't you understand?

 

[Bob I]

Please read this again.

About Beta Software
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx

 

[George]

Add one more unhappy camper to the list. Cannot validate for same reason as
everyone else here.

 

[Alec]

Its 6pm EDT on Wed and it finally is activated...They must have fixed the
problem!

 

[Rob]

I have just tried and all hopefully is now ok, mine worked Hurray!

Hope it is the same for all you other people who have tried, fingers crossed
for you.

Rob

 

[morpheusG]

go us rob! mine's working too! rock on MS!

 

[Rob]

Is right )) Let the rest follow in the same footsteps. Let us know people
if it works for you

 

[stu]

I think this one might actually be "Bait a", and a little more difficult to
understand.

 

[Ozzy]

I downloaded for both my laptop and desktop. I had the activation problem
with the laptop for just a few - it activated on the 7th try.

My desktop activation just now went through - after about 6 hours of almost
constantly clicking "OK" on the error message and clicking on Activate again.
I was doing this through Outlook.

The only thing that changed was that I needed an Excel file. When I opened
the file the activation screen came up. I didn't expect much, but went ahead
and tried. It activated in about 6 seconds. I don't know if it was due to
switching programs or if I just got lucky and found my place in line finally.

Good luck to all!

 

[Rob]

Activation should hopefully be working for most now

Rob