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Windows Vista Business Test Drive

Windows Vista Business Test Drive
If you didn't get to play around with Windows Vista during the betas, or just didn't want it on your system, now you can test drive some of it online, courtesy of Microsoft. This isn't a full virtual Vista system to play with (though it looks like it is) but it walks you through some of Vista's new features and lets you try them out, one by one. It is a good way to get a feel for Vista's new features if you haven't already played with it. Some of the new and improved features are Backup scheduling, Restore, Windows Defender, Diagnostics, Live Icons, Sidebar, Gadgets, Data synchronization, and Advanced web page printing. Since I had played with Vista a while back, I already had a chance to try this stuff out, but if you didn't it is something you might want to try.

via ActiveWin

Filed under: Windows, Office, Microsoft, Commercial

Test drive Office 2007 without the download

Office 2007 Test Drive

Want to give Office 2007 Beta a try but don't want to bother downloading it? You're in luck, because Microsoft is doing a Test Drive program which lets you try the product in your web browser. Well, their web browser-unsurprisingly it's IE-only and requires you install a plugin and sign in with Passport. If the server is busy (and it is right now) you'll be put in a queue, but my estimated wait of 35 minutes turned out to be 5. The real wait was for the thing to load, but after about 10 minutes and few hiccups, it did. Once it's loaded you can play around with live, working copies of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, OneNote, Project, Publisher, Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint. Microsoft provides a tutorial for each, which is nice for getting acquainted, but if you just want to poke around you can kill the tutorial easily. There's a lot to see, and if you've been on the fence about Office 2007, this test drive will probably tip you one way or the other.

[Via Netscape]

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