> Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview
>>
>>
ricochet wrote:
> That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
> eventually.

It seems that you are spectacularly unthankful!

Don't blame others fro not being unable to read what's in a menu.
The second item in the naviagtion menu of the site for which Patrick
sent the URL reads:
"Get the Beta or Take the Test Drive".
Clicking there leads to the place for the download.

Rainald

Yes, it sure does. But the links from there give you, *drum roll
please* BETA 2! And that doesn't help you if you don't have BETA 1
installed!

It wasn't an inability to find the Beta place, which is the first place
that google returns when you search for Microsoft Office 2007 -- it is
trying to find the FIRST beta so that the Techinical Refresh can be
installed. I did eventually get it -- via bit torrent.

Rainald Taesler wrote:
> > Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview
> >>
> >>
> ricochet wrote:
> > That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
> > eventually.
>
> It seems that you are spectacularly unthankful!
>
> Don't blame others fro not being unable to read what's in a menu.
> The second item in the naviagtion menu of the site for which Patrick
> sent the URL reads:
> "Get the Beta or Take the Test Drive".
> Clicking there leads to the place for the download.
>
> Rainald

Not sure what you are talking about. You need to install Beta 2 and then
you can install Beta 2 Technical Refresh. Beta 1 was never made
available public and also has expired by now, so I don't see how
installing that could be any use for you.
The link was correct, you simply didn't know what to install.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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"ricochet" <ethansanderson******.com> wrote in message
news:1160419141.523649.33030@k70g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com:

> Yes, it sure does. But the links from there give you, *drum roll
> please* BETA 2! And that doesn't help you if you don't have BETA 1
> installed!
>
> It wasn't an inability to find the Beta place, which is the first place
> that google returns when you search for Microsoft Office 2007 -- it is
> trying to find the FIRST beta so that the Techinical Refresh can be
> installed. I did eventually get it -- via bit torrent.
>
> Rainald Taesler wrote:
> > > Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
> > >> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview
> > >>
> > >>
> > ricochet wrote:
> > > That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
> > > eventually.
> >
> > It seems that you are spectacularly unthankful!
> >
> > Don't blame others fro not being unable to read what's in a menu.
> > The second item in the naviagtion menu of the site for which Patrick
> > sent the URL reads:
> > "Get the Beta or Take the Test Drive".
> > Clicking there leads to the place for the download.
> >
> > Rainald

"ricochet" <ethansanderson******.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1160419141.523649.33030@k70g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> > That was spectacularly unhelpful. But thanks. I'll find it
>> > eventually.
>>
>> It seems that you are spectacularly unthankful!
>>
>> Don't blame others fro not being unable to read what's in a menu.
>> The second item in the naviagtion menu of the site for which
>> Patrick
>> sent the URL reads:
>> "Get the Beta or Take the Test Drive".
>> Clicking there leads to the place for the download.
>
> Yes, it sure does. But the links from there give you, *drum roll
> please* BETA 2! And that doesn't help you if you don't have BETA 1
> installed!

WRONG!
Seriously wrong.
I have no idea on who might have told you such nonsense.

One does *not* need Beta 1 at all (except for doing research in the
field of software archaelogy <gbg>).

Just installing Beta 2 and then patching that with the B2TR patch is
fully sufficient.

> It wasn't an inability to find the Beta place, which is the first
> place
> that google returns when you search for Microsoft Office 2007 -- it
> is
> trying to find the FIRST beta so that the Techinical Refresh can be
> installed.

The First Beta is unnecessary as as flue in mid-summer.

> I did eventually get it -- via bit torrent.

And there was no use at all that you found that.
In the future: Do not google around, beware of WAREZ-like sites, just
go to the *normal* places offered by MS for their products and do what
you are told there.

No one to be blamed but *YOU* yourself.
As said before: You seem to have problems to just read <g,d&rvvvf>.

Rainald