# Thursday, May 25, 2006
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Both Office 2007 and Windows Vista Beta 2 have been released. If you are an MSDN subscriber then you can pick up copies from subscriber downloads. If you are not then you can get Office from http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/preview and Vista from the Vista Customer Preview Program (coming soon but register here).

In addition, if you want to do development for Vista you will need the following (in order of install):

  1. Install the BETA 2 WinFX Runtime Components from here.
  2. [ONLY REQUIRED FOR VS2005] Install the Windows SDK BETA 2 from here.
  3. [ONLY REQUIRED FOR VS2005] Install the VS2005 WinFX extensions (Visual Studio ‘Orcas’ May CTP) from here.
  4. Install Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer May CTP (Sparkle) from here.
  5. Install Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer May CTP (Acrylic) from here.
  6. Install Microsoft Expression Web Designer (Quartz) CTP1 from here.
  7. Install Erain’s ZAM3D from here.
  8. Check out videos on the Expression Suite here.

For Office development you'll need:

  1. Install the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) June CTP from here.
  2. Install the Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK from here.
  3. Install the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK from here.
  4. Browse the SharePoint SDK documentation here.
  5. Don't forget the new SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN.
  6. Check out videos on SharePoint here (more to come later).

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  1. The Groove SDK can be found here.

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posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:43:38 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback
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