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[chemical ali]

Just a few days ago the 3 betas were anounced for the products Vista, Longhorn and Office 12. You can now download office 12 for free!

http://www.microsoft...a/overview.mspx


I'm an official tester and I'm using the beta as my main OS and everything works! All the games, TS, RA2, YR, Renegade, so thats good news and it uses less RAM that XP! The public beta will be out very soon for people to get, I know many will try it.


http://www.microsoft...ec/default.mspx


Stay tuned for more info, I recomend you get this new office, its great you can make some good presenations that look really pro with the new graphs and picture features.

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[Carnivean]

Had office 2007 installed for around a month now - it's prettier but basically identical to older versions functionally.

I'll install vista when I can be sure it won't stop... some things working.

[Jeeves]

Office needs how much RAM!?!
Actually, how does that compare to the specs for Office 2003?

[chemical ali]

Is 256 mb to much ram LOL?

512 is recomeneded most people have that surely.

[Torn]

That screenshot just looks like a worse skin for XP. Boring, why aren't you using that Aero thingy?

[chemical ali]

That screenshot just looks like a worse skin for XP. Boring, why aren't you using that Aero thingy?

Because the graphics card on my laptop is on 64 mb I might try the registry hack.

[Torn]

Haha. Why did you buy a laptop with onboard graphics anyway?

[chemical ali]

Haha. Why did you buy a laptop with onboard graphics anyway?

It was a mistake I'm going to trade it in to get one with an ATI graphics card in. I will wait for vista to come out with the next gen laptops that like have displays on the outside.

[Athena]

Is 256 mb to much ram LOL?

It is to Jeeves .

[Jeeves]

<points below avatar>

[Shine On]

256 mb IS alot, especially for any product. I think that is rediculose especially since the reason its so high is all about its fancy looks and nothing else. The same goes for Norton Anti-Virus, its soo memory hungy its stupid.

[Az3r^]

yeah im only using norton because i got it in the google pack when it first came out, and it gave me 6months registered free. so when that runs out il prob uninstall it and get something that doesnt take so much resources and memory

[chemical ali]

128 of ram?

And xeno, when everyone has 1 gig of ram its not a lot for a recomended requirment nowadays.

[Carnivean]

128 of ram?

And xeno, when everyone has 1 gig of ram its not a lot for a recomended requirment nowadays.

Recommended specifications are not minimum specifications.

Also Word 2007 seems to use 40mb of memory without me doing anything at all in it.

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Edited by Snowshadow, 27 May 2006 - 05:15 PM.

[chemical ali]

Though firefox in vista currently uses around 55 mb. 40 meg isnt that much imo. And also beta software always uses more RAM because it has debugging tools running and the code isnt finalised.

[Carnivean]

For an application for word processing I'd say 40meg is a bit much for instant memory usage, sure if you were opening a richly formatted 5 meg .doc file it'd be normal but 40 meg is a bit much for an application doing pretty much nothing but making itself look pretty.

And in regards to the vista look I pretty much don't see much point to it and will end up turning off most of the usless shite. I like my desktop minimalistic, the sticky notes could be useful though as I generally have a completely clear desktop with just a start bar.

Edited by Snowshadow, 27 May 2006 - 07:52 PM.

[MSpencer]

I'm wondering... does this evaluation copy last forever? I wouldn't think so... in any event I've got the old beta still on my comp and it's fine. I'd like to know if this is lacking some features though, judging on the fact that it's a free release...

[Blodo]

Recommended specifications are not minimum specifications.

Also Word 2007 seems to use 40mb of memory without me doing anything at all in it.

How the hell do you operate that thing anyways? This new policy of fancy looks would require most people to re-learn Word.

Oh and 40mb of ram whilst doing nothing? How much does it take when you do open some sort of big document in it then?

[Torn]

40mb of ram being used? Oh no, that just means I've got 2008mb still free. What a shame.

[chemical ali]

I opened up a 10 meg power point file and it used about 40, idle for me was about 30 mb.