No idea how good the data is yet, hopefully will get some time tomorrow to really dive deep. Didn’t have time to play with it much as the hotel connection was running at about 14.4 baud modem speed but the opening landing page is total eye candy and will be great for first impressions. It is running on a Hyper-V server in my office and I finally tried to access it this morning via my hotel internet connection (I am on the road right now). UPDATE 1: The image finally downloaded and we got it all unzipped. Microsoft TechNet team has made available a 60-day trial version of fully functional Office 2010 Professional Plus to public. If you also want to test Office 2010, here is a great news for you. As soon as I can get it running I will post my thoughts. As you all know Microsoft Office 2010 final version has been released and available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. With the 9.2 image I have to re-download multiple sections due to errors. I hope to have it downloaded sometime this morning and then we will see how smoothly the unzipping process goes. We gave Orbit Downloader a try to help out and it improved the process somewhat but it is still a pain. That means clicking and downloading 40+ separate files, any one of which can die mid-stream. Not to mention the fact that it is a 40+ part download and the site does not use a download manager. And it will take time because the site that hosts the download for the demo is unbelievably painfully slow. I am hoping that this new image will be a big step forward from the poorly done 9.2 image. I am downloading it now and have been so for the past couple days. It is entitled Microsoft All-Up BI Demo Image X. So over at the Microsoft Online Demo Solutions site there is a new download available.
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