Office 2007 Beta install w/Office 2003

J

jimlat

Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta overwrite
my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use for production work.
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

Please repost your inquiry in the appropriate
Office beta newsgroup only authorized Office
beta testers can access. If you are not an authorized
Office beta tester, you should not be attempting
to install or use Office beta products.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta overwrite
| my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use for production work.
 
B

Bob I

A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple versions
for user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you realize if
something goes south, you are on your own? Now, how important is your
production work on this particular PC?
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not ready to
screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to get some RAM for
it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to try out the new
Publisher.)
 
T

Tom [Pepper] Willett

The public beta was just released today, Carey.

| Please repost your inquiry in the appropriate
| Office beta newsgroup only authorized Office
| beta testers can access. If you are not an authorized
| Office beta tester, you should not be attempting
| to install or use Office beta products.
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows - Shell/User
| Microsoft Community Newsgroups
| news://msnews.microsoft.com/
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| "jimlat" wrote:
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|| Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta
overwrite
|| my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use for production
work.
|
 
C

CMM

It's sad that Microsoft can't get the whole notion of "Side by Side" to work
with their own programs.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

JoAnn Paules said:
That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not ready to
screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to get some RAM for
it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to try out the new
Publisher.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Bob I said:
A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple versions for
user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you realize if something
goes south, you are on your own? Now, how important is your production
work on this particular PC?
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M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Side by side with Production software and Betas? I think Microsoft has it
exactly right.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, CMM asked:

| It's sad that Microsoft can't get the whole notion of "Side by Side"
| to work with their own programs.
|
|
| || That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not
|| ready to screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to
|| get some RAM for it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to
|| try out the new Publisher.)
||
|| --
||
|| JoAnn Paules
|| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
||
||
||
|| ||| A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple
||| versions for user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you
||| realize if something goes south, you are on your own? Now, how
||| important is your production work on this particular PC?
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||| jimlat wrote:
|||
|||| Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta
|||| overwrite my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to
|||| use for production work.
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

Office 2007 beta is not supposed to be run on a production system. I am
running more than one version of Office on my computer with no problems, as
are many others. It's the *beta* part that's tricky.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



CMM said:
It's sad that Microsoft can't get the whole notion of "Side by Side" to
work with their own programs.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

JoAnn Paules said:
That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not ready to
screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to get some RAM for
it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to try out the new
Publisher.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Bob I said:
A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple versions for
user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you realize if
something goes south, you are on your own? Now, how important is your
production work on this particular PC?

jimlat wrote:

Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta
overwrite my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use for
production work.
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C

CMM

Point taken.

Still, it seems to me that beta applications (at least stable ones this late
in the dev cycle) would benefit from people trying them out on a
side-by-side scenerio. A nice-to-have is all, I guess.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

JoAnn Paules said:
Office 2007 beta is not supposed to be run on a production system. I am
running more than one version of Office on my computer with no problems,
as are many others. It's the *beta* part that's tricky.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



CMM said:
It's sad that Microsoft can't get the whole notion of "Side by Side" to
work with their own programs.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

JoAnn Paules said:
That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not ready to
screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to get some RAM
for it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to try out the new
Publisher.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple versions
for user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you realize if
something goes south, you are on your own? Now, how important is your
production work on this particular PC?

jimlat wrote:

Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta
overwrite my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use
for production work.
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J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

Not at this point. Remember, they are still almost a year away from release.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



CMM said:
Point taken.

Still, it seems to me that beta applications (at least stable ones this
late in the dev cycle) would benefit from people trying them out on a
side-by-side scenerio. A nice-to-have is all, I guess.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

JoAnn Paules said:
Office 2007 beta is not supposed to be run on a production system. I am
running more than one version of Office on my computer with no problems,
as are many others. It's the *beta* part that's tricky.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



CMM said:
It's sad that Microsoft can't get the whole notion of "Side by Side" to
work with their own programs.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

That's exactly why I haven't participated in the beta. I am not ready
to screw up my system. (I have another system but I need to get some
RAM for it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I really want to try out the
new Publisher.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



A separate partition is recommended when installing multiple versions
for user support reasons and avoid Outlook. Of course you realize if
something goes south, you are on your own? Now, how important is your
production work on this particular PC?

jimlat wrote:

Can I install 2007B2 in poarallel w/Office 2003, or will the beta
overwrite my 03 install? I want to test 07 but still have 03 to use
for production work.
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