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Office 2010 Technical Preview: a first look review
Reviews Codenamed 'Office 14' (Microsoft skipped neatly over the unlucky number 13), Office 2010 has been some time in the making prior to this public Technical Preview. One thing missing from the Technical Preview are the online Office applications...
[July 13, 2009, 14:32]
Office Web Apps Technical Preview: a First Look review
Reviews The first technical preview of the newly christened Office Web Apps has been out for a week, and we've spent some time looking at Microsoft's highest-profile cloud computing application. The Technical Preview is only the first public outing for...
[September 24, 2009, 14:56]
Microsoft releases Office 2010 technical preview
News The next version of Office moved a step closer to reality on Monday as Microsoft released an invitation-only technical preview of Office 2010. Those so-called Office Web Applications are being demonstrated on Monday, but the technical preview of...
[July 13, 2009, 13:15]
Office Web Apps Technical Preview: screenshots review
Reviews Microsoft is still tweaking the Technical Preview as it adds more and more users, so be prepared for the occasional outage. Excel Web App can handle large spreadsheets, with plenty of data. It's an easy way to share data with colleagues, and to...
[September 24, 2009, 14:47]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: screenshots review
Reviews We installed Office 2010 in a virtualised VMware instance on top of Windows XP Service Pack 3. We could have installed the suite on top of the Release Candidate of Windows 7, but we wanted to see how Office 2010 would work without the latest...
[May 19, 2009, 14:08]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: screenshots II review
Reviews Office 2010's paste preview shows you just how your document will look — and lets you try out all the paste options without all those Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Y moments. There are also print preview tools, including tools for working with commercial printers.
[July 13, 2009, 14:33]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: a first look
Talkback They make it incompatible with previous versions on purpose to FORCE you to upgrade, and as noted, what's really new? OO is by far the best choice because it can read all versions of MS with no problem.
[July 14, 2009, 14:08]
Office Web Apps preview made available
News Microsoft has unveiled a technical preview of its newly christened Microsoft Office Web Apps services. The technical preview was released on Thursday to a limited group of users, with a public beta due later in the year.
[September 17, 2009, 18:00]
Office 2010 preview program ready in July
News Technical Preview Program of the new Office in July and that those at this week's Microsoft TechEd conference in Los Angeles will be among the first to get to kick the tires on the new version of Microsoft's flagship software.
[May 12, 2009, 12:44]
Sun set to preview Creator
News The Java inventor is set to announce on Wednesday that it is releasing a second technical preview of Creator to the 86 companies that have requested an early look at the tools. The updated technical preview of Creator will introduce features to...
[February 18, 2004, 8:25]
Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 review
Reviews Opera has released to the public Opera 9 Technology Preview 2, a first look at the features and tools slated for the next release of this popular Internet browser. Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 offers two big additions, plus several that put it on a...
[February 10, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft debates future of IE 6
News And beta testers of Microsoft's next version of Windows, code-named Whistler, also are dabbling with technical preview IE builds that have been integrated into Whistler. A technical preview of IE 6.0 went to a subset of testers who agreed to...
[January 12, 2001, 9:36]
Itanium delay: Blessing in disguise?
News Microsoft demonstrated the technical preview to attendees of its Professional Developers Conference last week in Orlando. Officials claimed the closed "technical preview" of Windows 2000, 64-bit Edition supplied to select software and hardware...
[July 21, 2000, 9:55]
SAP plans modular upgrades
News SAP released a preview version of the package on Tuesday, Agassi said. A preview download is now available and the software will be available next year. Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, outlined the software maker's...
[September 13, 2006, 16:40]
Google invites developers to its Bigtable
News In his staff blog, Google App Engine technical lead Kevin Gibbs said: "Google App Engine is free to use during the preview release, but the amount of computing resources any application can use is limited.
[April 8, 2008, 13:19]
Gates talks up new speech and mobile products
News In addition to the Windows Mobile announcement and the speech server software, Gates introduced a "Community Technical Preview" version of the company's forthcoming Visual Studio 2005 developer software.
[March 25, 2004, 9:35]
Windows Vista Beta 2 Review: Part 3 - New Features
White Papers Given the fact that the past few Community Technical Preview (CTP) builds were considered feature complete, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Beta 2 offers little in the way of major new features. Windows Vista Beta 2 - and to a larger degree...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
A free fully functional database application is yours with SQL Server 2005 Express
White Papers SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and the Community Technical Preview release of SQL Server Management Studio Express combine to create a fully functional database system you can download, install, and try for free.
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Integrating the Oracle Designer Legacy Table API With Oracle JDeveloper 11g ADF Business Components
White Papers This paper specifically investigates integrating the Oracle Designer Table API with Oracle JDeveloper 11g (in Technical Preview 2 at the time of this writing). Oracle Designer is now firmly in maintenance mode, but it is still common to encounter...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 (technical refresh) review
Reviews You'll be able to test-drive this free technical refresh of Office 2007 beta 2 from September 14 by visiting www.microsoft.com/office/preview. Microsoft's latest preview of its 2007 update to the Office suite unveils a much more customisable...
[September 14, 2006, 10:15]
