Windows 10: Office 2016 Public Preview now available

UPDATE: Office 2016 on Windows Preview update

 

wow-I just installed it, activated with the key, and I feel gypped. LOL



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Why do you feel gypped, Simrick? You have Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview and you have the same build as those who have been testing it since around August 2014 and getting it to this stage for you.

For 149 days, you get to use the latest and greatest. You get automatic updates as they're ready without having to pay. Once the "trial period" expires, you have a choice of subscribing to Office 365 or going back to the Microsoft Office version you were already using.

I would seriously like to know why you feel cheated. Until this public preview with a trial subscription recently became available, everyone who tested Office 365 had to have a paid for subscription in order to test. I have a paid subscription to Office 365.

 

uh....it was a joke....everyone else has 180 days....

 

Simrick, you have the latest build of Office 365.

 

Oh! Sorry. Have you tried it before? And then uninstalled or anything?

 

Nope. This is my first and only install of it.

 

That is strange, then! I tried to see what the trial time is, but didn't find it. I didn't look too hard because I already have a subscription and didn't want to mess things up. *Sad

 

That's okay. I was only kidding. I'm happy to have Office on the lappy for a while, as I will not install my Office2013Pro on here, and waste "another" activation. I started on the W10TPs with an empty HDD, so I was starting from scratch, not updating.

 

Simrick, I've been testing and using Office since the XP days and have never run into "too many installs" for it. Every time I've installed it, it's activated. Other than Office 2013 (which can only be installed on one computer), Office can go onto any computer and be activated as long as you have your license key. Usually when you change computers, you don't even have to call Microsoft.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've seen others with 149 day trials, which is five months instead of six. This is something I want to know about.

 

Unless, of course, you're in Japan, or at least bought your software in Japan. Then you're allowed to install it on a desktop and a laptop. How do they rate, I wonder? *Huh

 

Really!? That's not very fair, but it probably has something to do with Japanese law.

 

Yep. I saved my EULA/MSLT to file and actually read the entire thing while I was waiting for it to install. LOL

 

Hi there

Office activations seem just fine to me

I'm not sure How many times I've re-activated Office 2010 -- never a problem. !!!!

Hopefully when Office 2016 comes out for REAL it will be the same -- although once W10 is also released I can't see myself getting much more new hardware -- current hardware is fine and for what I do is certainly not too slow and definitely fit for purpose.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Same here, Jimbo. It looks like my hardware is sufficient for what I want to do . . . I will be getting new headphones, though. Other than that, not much.