Preparing to Install 2007 Microsoft Office System Products, Beta1TR build We are busy making final preparations for the 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 1 Technical Refresh (Beta1TR) release. We plan to release this to you on BetaPlace (http://beta.microsoft.com) next week and appreciate your patience as we polish things off. We have two goals for this release:

We want you to be able to validate that the fixes to issues you've previously reported about 2007 Microsoft Office do meet your needs. We also want to provide a build of 2007 Microsoft Office that functions on Windows Vista Feb CTP. With this build, we will begin accepting bug and newsgroup submissions regarding the 2007 Microsoft Office Beta1TR build on Windows Vista Feb. CTP.

Beta1TR System Requirements We have not yet set final 2007 Microsoft Office system requirements. We will provide full system guidelines on the Product Downloads page of the 2007 Microsoft Office web site (http://beta.microsoft.com) to help you see optimal 2007 Microsoft Office Beta1TR performance. There will be no upgrade from 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 1 to the Beta1TR build. It will be necessary to uninstall previous versions of 2007 Microsoft Office before installing 2007 Microsoft Office Beta-1 refresh. And it will be necessary later to remove the 2007 Microsoft Office Beta-1 refresh before installing 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2 (this is a deviation from our previously announced plans to allow upgrade from 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 1 to 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2). The server products will have no upgrade capability from the refreshed Beta-1 versions to the Beta-2 versions.