I don’t know how many people have been slamming Microsoft’s servers today (and those of its online partner, LTG), but I’m guessing a huge number of people want that Office 2007 beta. I was able to download my copies just fine this morning, as soon as they were available. But for the past few hours, I’ve received a variety of errors when trying to reach the servers. Just when I thought I had finally made it, the server surrendered completely:
It must be incredibly hard to engineer a website to handle surges of traffic like this.
Anyway, you might want to wait a day or two.
Ed Bott 
Got mine around 11:00 PST this morning with no problems. I tried downloading a second component around 12, and there was no hope. The difference in an hour!
I was surprised, though, to see download speeds reach a peak of just over 1mb/s.
But the Beta seems to be working fine. A tad sluggish when rendering some flashy gui menu or tooltip, but working nonetheless. Very impressed with Powerpoint.
It made the front page of digg…there was no hope after that. Glad I was done downloading before I submitted it
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If one managed obtaining the serial number, and one needs only to download the installation kit, this is the link: http://download.esd.licensetech.com/Microsoft/DMMSO12B/PRO/AKAMAIFILES/OPPLUS-EN.EXE (via: digg.com).
Ed,
Office 2007 ROCKS!! But there is one major flaw that I can’t seem to fix and I can’t find any info on it. HELP!! When using a ThinkPad the scroll function does not work in Word. It works fine in outlook and excel, even in the help window within word just not within a document. Do you know anything about this – a fix or a hack, its killing me?
After several attempts…and endless form filling in, I still can’t get it…oh well…