Microsoft Office 2007 beta (Beware you must uninstall after it expires)

wrote:

I was only able to launch the program after I set my computer clock
back to the year 2006. All I am trying to say is that MS should
correct there language, otherwise they are going to get in trouble.

I think you're going to have to wait until 2007 to see what happens.

The program is functioning now, and it may continue to function in 2007.
If you say "Judge, I set my computer clock ahead, and it stopped
working," the judge is going to say, "Why on earth did you do that, you
blithering idiot?"

Paul, your analogy is ridiculous.

What he made was not an analogy, and he is correct that it is for people
like you that such warnings were designed and implemented.

When 2007 comes around and everyone is forced to unistall it what do
you think is going to happen when MS on thier website stated that the
BETA would still work with limited functionality. Unistalling the
program is not limted. Why can't you guys get this simple argument.
I am not even saying that MS should not have released the beta. They
should just change their terms of use.

Why don't you just wait six months and see what happens.

And for god's sake, stop top-posting.

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Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite for
FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February 1st...limited pretty
much does mean "not at all" but I am still grateful.

" wrote:

Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
That does not mean none!


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed the third
grade reading test yet, after all these years?

Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!


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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and when
| I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install. What
| happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will happen when
| Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall it is NOT
| limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.

To put it in simple terms you should be able to understand

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I was only able to launch the program after I set my computer clock
back to the year 2006. All I am trying to say is that MS should
correct there language, otherwise they are going to get in trouble.

Paul, your analogy is ridiculous.

When 2007 comes around and everyone is forced to unistall it what do
you think is going to happen when MS on thier website stated that the
BETA would still work with limited functionality. Unistalling the
program is not limted. Why can't you guys get this simple argument. I
am not even saying that MS should not have released the beta. They
should just change their terms of use.







Paul Ballou wrote:
I take it you were able to still launch the program then that means the
program still had functionality therefore only reduced to you not being
able
to use program features....

The point you are trying to make is the reason they put "Not for Oral Use"
on Preparation H and " Caution Contents Hot" on a cup of Hot Coffee...

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Reduced does not mean NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Limited functiuonality does
not mean NONE!!!!! If MS doesn't want to say what they mean then they
can explain it to the judge.


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
There is nothing saying that "Reduced Functionality" CANNOT mean none.
It
is reduced after all, to NONE.

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Why are you guys so angry? All I am trying to say is that MS states,
|
| "All 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 software has an expiration
| date of February 1, 2007. After expiration, 2007 Microsoft Office
| system Beta 2 will continue to work in a reduced functionality mode
| that limits your options and operations"
|
| However, if you forward your computer clock to 2007 you will find out
| that it has NO functionality and you must uninstall it. They should
| just say that and not use "limted functionality". If they don't then
| they might get sued because of misrepresentation.
|
| Get a grip.
|
|
|
|
|
| Chris Schatte wrote:
|| Did you bother to do some research?
|| http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...etthebeta.mspx
|| http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/faq.mspx
||
|| Chris Schatte
|| --
|| use the Office Online web based newsreader he
|| http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx
|| In Office System 2003 applications:
|| Help/Assistance Pane/Communities
|| SBA Spotlight
||
||
|| "lonewolf" wrote:
||
||| Are you another of those Open Source trouble makers? or just a
||| trouble maker? MS is TRYING to change their ways and what do you
||| give? -crp to MS But then again, you use AOL. Probably use Google
||| and Yahoo alot also who have questionable practices in China and
||| other places and are of questionable values like AOL. Lawsuit-Get
||| real dope
|||
||| " wrote:
|||
|||| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
|||| when I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must
|||| install. What happened to limited functionality as microsoft
|||| clims will happen when Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making
|||| you uninstall it is NOT limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit
|||| in 2007.

michali wrote:
Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite for
FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February 1st...limited pretty
much does mean "not at all" but I am still grateful.

" wrote:

Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
That does not mean none!


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed thethird
grade reading test yet, after all these years?

Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!


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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and when
| I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install. What
| happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will happen when
| Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall it is NOT
| limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.



Guys and Gals, I am on your side. I just made an observation. If they
correct it by 2007 that is great. If they don't they might find
themselves in hot water. I love that they gave it to us to try for
awhile. Why all the hostility? Life is too short, relax.

It means you can open the programs and read what you had produced with it
during the beta period. It means that you cannot use it to produce any new
documents or products.

There, happy now?

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
| That does not mean none!
|
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed
|| the third grade reading test yet, after all these years?
||
|| Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!
||
||
|| --�
|| 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, asked:
||
||| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
||| when I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install.
||| What happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will
||| happen when Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall
||| it is NOT limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.

Correct what? The beta will expire in February 2007. It will no longer be
usable to produce anything new. You can read what you produced during the
beta period. What is there to correct?

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| michali wrote:
|| Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
|| opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite
|| for FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February
|| 1st...limited pretty much does mean "not at all" but I am still
|| grateful.
||
|| " wrote:
||
||| Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
||| That does not mean none!
|||
|||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed
|||| the third grade reading test yet, after all these years?
||||
|||| Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!
||||
||||
|||| --�
|||| 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, asked:
||||
||||| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
||||| when I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must
||||| install. What happened to limited functionality as microsoft
||||| clims will happen when Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making
||||| you uninstall it is NOT limited finctionality. I smell a
||||| lawsuit in 2007.
|||
|||
|
| Guys and Gals, I am on your side. I just made an observation. If
| they
| correct it by 2007 that is great. If they don't they might find
| themselves in hot water. I love that they gave it to us to try for
| awhile. Why all the hostility? Life is too short, relax.

Milly Staples - MVP Outlook wrote:
Correct what? The beta will expire in February 2007. It will no longer be
usable to produce anything new. You can read what you produced during the
beta period. What is there to correct?

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| michali wrote:
|| Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
|| opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite
|| for FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February
|| 1st...limited pretty much does mean "not at all" but I am still
|| grateful.
||
|| " wrote:
||
||| Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
||| That does not mean none!
|||
|||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed
|||| the third grade reading test yet, after all these years?
||||
|||| Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!
||||
||||
|||| --�
|||| 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, asked:
||||
||||| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
||||| when I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must
||||| install. What happened to limited functionality as microsoft
||||| clims will happen when Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making
||||| you uninstall it is NOT limited finctionality. I smell a
||||| lawsuit in 2007.
|||
|||
|
| Guys and Gals, I am on your side. I just made an observation. If
| they
| correct it by 2007 that is great. If they don't they might find
| themselves in hot water. I love that they gave it to us to try for
| awhile. Why all the hostility? Life is too short, relax.


If that is true, then there should be no problems. I just don't see
how you can "read what you produced during the beta period" if MS
forces you to unistall the Beta program. Maybe they will correct this
by 2007.

Your personal profile on AOL explains your talking of
lawsuit................
. Name Christopher Colon
Location Staten Island, New York
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Occupation Attorney
Personal Quote Greed is the root of all evil.
Links Law Office of Christopher Colon, Staten Island Attorney Serving
the Greater New York Metropolitan Area



You must be in need some business in Staten Island http://www.colonlaw.net/



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michali wrote:
Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite for
FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February 1st...limited
pretty
much does mean "not at all" but I am still grateful.

" wrote:

Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
That does not mean none!


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed the
third
grade reading test yet, after all these years?

Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!


--�
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
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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
when
| I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install. What
| happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will happen
when
| Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall it is NOT
| limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.



Guys and Gals, I am on your side. I just made an observation. If they
correct it by 2007 that is great. If they don't they might find
themselves in hot water. I love that they gave it to us to try for
awhile. Why all the hostility? Life is too short, relax.

Paul Ballou wrote:
Your personal profile on AOL explains your talking of
lawsuit................
. Name Christopher Colon
Location Staten Island, New York
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Occupation Attorney
Personal Quote Greed is the root of all evil.
Links Law Office of Christopher Colon, Staten Island Attorney Serving
the Greater New York Metropolitan Area



You must be in need some business in Staten Island http://www.colonlaw.net/



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michali wrote:
Has it even occurred to you that we are so lucky to have a 6-9 month
opportunity to try out a complete package of the latest Office suite for
FREE? Yes, we will not be able to use it after February 1st...limited
pretty
much does mean "not at all" but I am still grateful.

" wrote:

Ok, moronic Milly, what does "Beta 2 will continue to work" mean?!
That does not mean none!


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Um, what about BETA don't you understand? Or have you not passed the
third
grade reading test yet, after all these years?

Lawsuit, yeah, that'll fly!!


--�
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, asked:

| Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and
when
| I opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install. What
| happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will happen
when
| Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall it is NOT
| limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.



Guys and Gals, I am on your side. I just made an observation. If they
correct it by 2007 that is great. If they don't they might find
themselves in hot water. I love that they gave it to us to try for
awhile. Why all the hostility? Life is too short, relax.

I don't need the work. If MS doesn't fix the problem they are just
exposing themself.

8 months with a working version of Office 2007 for free is pretty amazing in
my opinion. A very LONG beta / trial period. Any reasonable person would
just buy the software when that period expires if they like it and want to
continue using it.

I'd pay for it now if I could.


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
After you encountered the message did you try opening a document anyway??
Why don't you try it again and let us know what happens exactly. :-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Well, for the hell of it I set my computer clock passed 2007 and when I
opened Word 2007 it stated that it expired and must install. What
happened to limited functionality as microsoft clims will happen when
Microsoft Office expires in 2007? Making you uninstall it is NOT
limited finctionality. I smell a lawsuit in 2007.