Last week we mentioned that the Beta2TR build would expire in March and May 2007, for client and server products, respectively. While we reported the correct months for each, we accidentally listed the wrong dates for both. The correct dates for Beta2TR expiration are as follows. We apologize for any confusion that our previous message may have caused. March 31, 2007 - all client products May 15, 2007 - all server products

Send a Smile - Update and Uninstall Instructions NEW Thank you for using the Send a Smile tool to tell us about your 2007 Microsoft Office system experiences! Starting with early builds of the 2007 Office system and continuing through the Beta2TR build, you have sent us more than 40,000 smiles and frowns, and we are thankful for every one of them. Reading your comments has been fun and insightful, but most importantly, it has continually helped us improve Office. Your Send a Smile feedback had a tangible impact on the product and your comments influenced many of our decisions over the last year. The Send a Smile tool has been designed exclusively for managing beta feedback. Due to the manual nature of processing feedback submitted using the tool, we regret we will no longer be able to respond to Send a Smile feedback after October 14, 2006. We will continue to investigate ways to make it easy for you to provide us with feedback of this nature in the future with an eye toward improving our processing system for this feedback.

Reminder About Upcoming Beta Closure Events REMINDER We are thrilled with the incredible excitement around the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system as is evident by over 3 million people installing the Beta 2 and later Beta2TR builds. With your help, we have far exceeded our technical participation goals. At this time, we are pleased to announce that the 2007 Office system will be released to manufacturing (RTM) in the next few weeks. We thank you for your participation in the planning, development, and testing of this new release. As we approach the end of the beta testing phase of Office 2007, we would like to make you aware of several upcoming events that will affect you.