SubscribeOffice 2007 Launch Number 2: “The WOW Starts Now!”
Today, Office 2007 is launched for the second time. The first time was at the end of November when it was launched for business customers. Today is the launch to consumers who will be able to purchase it starting tomorrow.
The joint launch of Office and Vista today in New York City has the slogan “The WOW Starts Now!”. If you are, like me, not on the official invitation list for the launch event, then you can watch a webcast of the event featuring Bill Gates starting at 4:45 pm EST. Tomorrow, you can join Steve Ballmer at the Best Buy at 529 5th Ave (44th & 5th Avenue) in New York City at 10 am in kicking off the consumer availability of both products.
Coinciding with the Office 2007 launch, I am launching RibbonCustomizer Professional V1.0 today. This release gives you individual command customization, meaning you can populate the Ribbon with any commands you want to. So, not only is the most innovative User Interface launched today for the second time, but you can also pick up the the tool at the same time that allows you to fully customize it!
The question of the day is: Are you WOWed?
February 1st, 2007 at 13:11
I uninstalled the BETA version last night and download the new “final” trial.
It does not, however, include OUTLOOK.
What do we do now?
February 1st, 2007 at 13:15
It does. Launch setup for Office 2003/XP (or whatever version you still have on your computer besides 2007). Then remove Outlook of that version. Reboot, then run the trial setup again and choose customize. Make sure to switch the red X (not available) for Outlook to install.
The trial setup doesn’t install Outlook when it detects a previous version of it on your computer. The reason is that there can be only one Outlook on a computer at the same time, and presumably you are only trying it out. So it would be bad if your Outlook was gone completely after you removed the trial. In your case, the problem is that Beta 2 setup had a bug and didn’t remove the previous version of Outlook, but installed 2007. Hence, you still have an Outlook on your computer, although it is non-functional.
Patrick
February 26th, 2007 at 1:08
Or stop using outlook dude. It’s a lot easier to cope with life that way. The only wow you will get is the errors, hang ups and the stupid behavior of Outlook.