Free Office 2010 Beta Downloaded over 1 Million Times

The first Beta testing program for the next iteration of the Office System is a smashing success. According to Microsoft, in excess of 1 million users around the world have crowded to Office 2010 Beta and downloaded the bits since the development milestone was made available at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC 2009) in Los Angeles in mid-November. Via the official Office 2010 beta website, the Redmond-based company is offering testers the following downloads: Office Web Apps, Office Mobile, Office Home and Business 2010, Office Professional 2010, and Office Professional Plus 2010.

“You may have already heard, but we have some exciting news from the Office team - earlier this week we reached the 1 millionth download of Office 2010! This means that more than 1 million people across the world are now experiencing and testing the next version of Office. You’ll recall we launched the public beta just two weeks ago at the Professional Developer’s Conference and in reaching the 1 millionth download milestone, Office 2010 has had more people download it in the first two weeks than any other version of Office including Office 2007! It’s super gratifying to see so many people interested in experiencing the next version of Office and help us deliver the best product possible,” revealed a member of the Office team.

Microsoft said from the get go that it wanted a very large Beta testing pool for Office 2010, and it looks like the company got its wish. In fact, the software giant didn’t even mention a time limit at which point users would no longer be able to grab the Office 2010 Beta bits. Essentially, both Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 and the associated activation product keys continue to be available from the maker, and those that want to get a taste of what Office 2007’s successor will be like can, of course, download and start test driving their own copy.

“The Office 2010 Beta is available in all of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese,” Microsoft stated. “The beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010. Users can choose to download the trial or buy the full version of Office 2010 at that time.”

The company is reportedly planning to launch Office 2010 in June 2010, but the date has yet to be officially confirmed.

Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 is available for download here.

Source : Softpedia.com

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Download Free Windows Server 2008 R2

Just yesterday, I was telling you that Microsoft was offering resources designed to help administrators manage Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2. Today is reserved for a tool also designed to streamline administrative work associated with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core installs: namely Core Configurator 2.0. An open source project hosted on Microsoft CodePlex, version 2.0 of the Core Configurator is tailored specifically to the latest iteration of the Windows Server operating system, and is designed to make up for the lack of features, including no Windows Shell/GUI, of Server Core deployments.

Core Configurator 2.0 “is completely open source so it can be amended and changed to fit your requirements, this version has been a year in the making and has been written in powershell with a reference to Winforms so that a GUI format is displayed,” explained Justin Zarb, a Project Dedicated Supportability engineer, part of Premier Field Engineering within Microsoft UK. “The primary focus of this project is to try and get feedback and contributions back from the community to make this a tool the best/ free tool everyone will want in there toolkit, so if you have some code or features that you might want included then please leave a comment and we will get in touch.”

Core Configurator 2.0 has been released under a Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), which, of course, is an open source license. In this regard, customers can grab both the ISO image of the solution, or the actual source code. Users must understand that version 2.0 is designed to integrate exclusively with the R2 build of Windows Server 2008, namely Windows 7 Server. Via the Core Configuration users can easily perform a wide series of tasks in Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2, including: Product Licensing; Networking Features; DCPromo Tool; ISCSI Settings; Server Roles and Features; User and Group Permissions; Share Creation and Deletion; Dynamic Firewall settings; Display | Screensaver Settings; Add & Remove Drivers; Proxy settings; Windows Updates (Including WSUS); Multipath I/O; Hyper-V including virtual machine thumbnails; JoinDomain and Computer rename; Add/remove programs; Services; WinRM; Complete logging of all commands executed.

“The entire tool is just a bunch of PowerShell Scripts. Truly amazing stuff. I just spent half an hour pouring over the code in these scripts to see how they are able to do half the things they manage to do,” stated Ben Armstrong, a program manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft. “If you have not enabled PowerShell on your core server – the launch script will offer to do so automatically. So it is very easy to get up and running. Along with all the usual server core configuration stuff - this release has basic support for Hyper-V which allows you to list virtual machines, start and stop virtual machines, and view the thumbnail of running virtual machines. If you are planning to use this to setup server core inside a virtual machine – you can also download the tool on a .ISO file – which lets you easily connect it to your virtual machine of choice.”

Core Configurator 2.0 is available for download here.

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