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Paying for office 2007 beta? Since when?

My god.. just formatted so re-downloading office 2007 and its trying to charge me £1.50 for the use of their servers to download from.. !!!!!!?

The worst thing is its not accepting my billing address saying it doesnt match the card? Used 3 different damn cards before sending them an aggressive frustrated email as I need to do my girlfriends cv by tonight !!!!!!!!! (or she'll kill me haha)

Open office is all well and good but then when opened in word looks completely diff!
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- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
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  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,840 Forumite
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    You didn't get in fast enough, because the change from free to the isn't-this-a-waste-of-effort £1.50 has been well trailed.

    You wait until you come to pay for the Real Thing!

    John

    PS When? Since early August. See here.
  • Bah

    Anyone pm me a private download link please? Bit hopeful but hey
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
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  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,840 Forumite
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    Sorry, don't have it. Just how many megabytes do you think the PM would be?!

    John

    PS I'll answer the question for you! Beta file sizes range from 75 MB to 1 GB, depending on the products you choose. (See "View File Size/Download Times Chart" below the "Download the Beta Now" in http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx)
  • Gib_Gib
    Gib_Gib Posts: 168 Forumite
    downloaded it fine, its $1.50 or £1.20.

    It just does not like your credit card.
  • John_Gray wrote:
    Sorry, don't have it. Just how many megabytes do you think the PM would be?!

    John

    PS I'll answer the question for you! Beta file sizes range from 75 MB to 1 GB, depending on the products you choose. (See "View File Size/Download Times Chart" below the "Download the Beta Now" in http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx)

    Thus PM me a link not PM me the file.... ;)
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
    [/FONT]
  • Gib_Gib wrote:
    downloaded it fine, its $1.50 or £1.20.

    It just does not like your credit card.

    Tried using 3 cards. Keeps giving me an error on my address (street name or postcode but doesnt say which)

    so annoying
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
    [/FONT]
  • why not do it in oo then pdf it.
    NURSE: "Shouldn't it be sterilized, doctor?"
    DR. BENWAY: "Very likely but there's no time."
  • Will do

    But still want the new office and willing to pay that download fee - except the damn thing not working for me lol!

    If someone can do it for me then give me their link i'll paypal £1.50 over :)
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
    - Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
    [/FONT]
  • downloaded it fine, its $1.50 or £1.20.

    Don't you just love the way we get ripped off on downloadable software? 50% mark-up relative to the true exchange rate just for being in rip-off Britain.
  • woo
    woo Posts: 1,226 Forumite
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    should be able to get it for you, can get it from my MSDN account so bypass the 1.50...
    Ever stop to think and forget to start again?
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