8 responses to “Free ebook: “First Look at Microsoft Office 2010″”

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   Susan Wolf December 12th, 2009 at 23:01

   They put the Keystone Cops in charge of downloading, on account of most people simply cannot get this book, no matter which method or browser they use.

   The Microsoft team says they are “working” on the problem. I wonder if this is the same team that developed Office 2010? Good luck if that’s the case. 12 year old kids can set up a site to download a simple file.

   No reflection on you, Khun Woody. I always appreciate what you do for us.

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   Susan Wolf December 13th, 2009 at 06:52

   Props to the unnamed user who was able to download the book and then posted it on RapidShare. He, or she, was actually able to do something that the entire Microsoft Corporation couldn’t.

   http://rapidshare.com/files/319874152/693876ebook.pdf

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   Vicki December 13th, 2009 at 14:54

   Link doesn’t work for me at all in NZ

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   woody December 13th, 2009 at 15:45

   Weird. I had no problem downloading it when I posted the message. And I just downloaded another copy. I wonder what’s going wrong for some people???

   Maybe it’s because I’m using Firefox?? No problems at all. Opens right up in Foxit, and I can save it from there.

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   Susan Wolf December 13th, 2009 at 16:00

   I tried it with Firefox 3.5.5 in Vista and Windows 7, and with Internet Explorer 8 in both Vista and Firefox. The results were always exactly the same. With Firefox I would get something like javascript;void(0) if I clicked on the link, and a zero size immediately downloaded PDF file if I right clicked and saved link as. With IE I would get an error message saying the download page didn’t exist.

   I tried each method a half dozen times at different intervals.

   I just tried it again now, in Firefox/Windows 7 and it worked fine for the first time.

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   Mark C December 13th, 2009 at 22:13

   Woody

   The comments from the site are below:

   They EXCEEDED the bandwidth and now it has been solved.

   Had NO problem downloading (FF).

   Quote:
   Everybody, we just heard back from the SkyDrive team: we exceeded a bandwidth restriction. The team tells us that they will remove the restriction by Monday morning, if not earlier. I’ll keep checking in this weekend. If this happens before Monday, I’ll let you know.

   # re: Free e-book: “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010”
   Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:52 PM by devonm

   I received an email tonight saying that our bandwidth has been adjusted. We should be OK now. Please try again if you’ve had trouble.
   (End quote)

   MS heads are in the clouds and probably NEVER expected the HUGE response after a Woody post!!!

   Thanks for the foxitreader tip.

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   Vicki December 14th, 2009 at 03:19

   Thanks for that link Susan. Worked for me, too. Woody, I was using Firefox, too, and can now read the book in Foxit. Looks like lots of others were experiencing the problem I was, but it seems MS have fixed it now. As always, thanks for your great postings, Woody, especially on the MS Updates, which I always follow confidently

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   woody December 14th, 2009 at 17:48

   HA! I confess! Mea maxima culpa!