Office system 2007 B2TR public download URL, please enjoy them!! 

Office Server 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0b6bd175-e700-44b8-ab47-e4459250d16d&DisplayLang=en

Other Office 2007 Components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?DisplayLang=en&nr=20&freetext=beta+2+technical+refresh&sortCriteria=date

Microsoft is planning to release the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh tomorrow, Thursday September 14th. Jensen Harris outlines the improvements and stability this new build brings to beta testers.

Mary Jo also talks about the new Beta 2 TR for Office 2007 including some first-impressions from a few analysts. It seems the overall feeling about the Refresh is looking very positive.

The Beta TR for Office 2007 is said to be the last publicly released test build of Office 2007 before it RTM’s.

Available for download starting Sept. 14 from www.microsoft.com/office/preview, the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh—for both client and server systems—will be free to Beta 2 customers. Customers will need to install the update as a patch over Office 2007 Beta 2.

eWEEK Labs tested the refresh on a Lenovo ThinkPad T41 running Microsoft's Windows Vista Release Candidate 1, with a 1.5GHz Intel Pentium M 758 processor and 1.5GB of RAM. We also installed the office suite update on a Hewlett-Packard xw9300 workstation with dual 2.6GHz Advanced Micro Devices Opteron 252 CPUs and 4GB of RAM.

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista RC1. However, the HP workstation we used for testing was running Windows XP Professional 64-bit SP1, and the refresh installed just fine.

Reviewers were given a completely new installation copy of the suite update, so we uninstalled Office 2007 Beta 2 on our test machines and installed the Beta 2 Technical Refresh. 

The update focuses mainly on user interface and performance enhancements. For example, users who are tired of Office 2007's two color schemes—black and default blue—will applaud the suite's new silver theme, accessible regardless of the operating system used. And, while we've found some Office 2007 applications, including Outlook, to be sluggish, the performance improvements in the refresh were obvious.

We especially liked a couple of enhancements that have been made to Office's new ribbon interface.

It's now easier to minimize the Office ribbon to provide more document real estate: Users need only right-click anywhere on the ribbon and choose "minimize the ribbon" to work on their documents without all of the ribbon's tools; a second right-click brings the ribbon back. The ribbon has also been enhanced with the addition of menu tabs, which let us bring back a minimized ribbon by left-clicking on a tab. We could then reminimize the ribbon with a second left-click.

In Word, the refresh improves image support: While Beta 2 required an FTP account to add pictures to blog posts, users can now upload images to blogs from Word (assuming their blog provider supports images).

In Outlook, appointments and meetings now can have time zone controls, an especially handy feature for business travelers who want to create appointments that start in one time zone and end in another.

Searching for e-mail in Office 2007 Beta 2 could be tedious, so we were glad to see that Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh uses an updated version of Windows Desktop Search—a definite improvement. We also saw noticeable performance improvements in Excel, particularly when creating, opening and saving charts.

There was one feature that was conspicuous by its absence: PDF support. Many users of Office 2007 Beta 2—including eWEEK Labs analysts—had come to appreciate and depend on its PDF functionality. Unfortunately, that feature doesn't appear in the refresh because of a squabble between Adobe and Microsoft. Have no fear, though: A Microsoft Office add-in called Microsoft Save as PDF is available for download here.

Built-in PDF capabilities aren't the only file formats missing from Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh: Microsoft has yanked from this version support for XPS (XML Paper Specification), although an add-in for XPS also is available here.

While Microsoft has made a number of good usability improvements in Office 2007 since Beta 2, the suite's new user interface and Office Open XML document formats will be big hurdles for end users.

Along with the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh, Microsoft has also made materials available to help IT managers train end users to work with the new interface. An Enterprise Learning Network has also been established to help IT managers develop a training and communications plan for employees

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