14 DAY TRIAL // Early testers of the next iteration of the Office System will find that they are unable to activate the Technical Preview build of the Professional SKU, Microsoft informed. The Redmond company revealed that it was aware of the issue and working to produce a fix. According to the software giant, due to the volume of testers accepted in the Technical Preview program, the maximum limit of key activations of Office 2010 Professional has already been reached. On August 9, 2009, Microsoft provided an update on the problem via Connect. Below is the information offered by the company for all participants in the Office Professional 2010 Technical Preview program that are currently finding it impossible to activate their edition of the productivity suite.
“Due to an incredible rate of download and installations of Microsoft Office professional 2010, it has come to our attention that we have already reached the maximum number of key activations originally created for the Technical Preview build. We are working hard to provide you with more product keys for this build and will do so on the Product Keys page as soon as possible. Please be patient with us as we make more product keys available for you. Please do not contact the Microsoft Connect team for assistance with this, as the Office 2010 team is already very much aware of the situation and is working hard to fix it. Thank you for your eager participation in the office 2010 pre-release program you belong to! Thank you! The Microsoft Office 2010 team,” Microsoft noted.
The Office 2010 Technical Preview program went live in July 2009. Ever since it initially announced that it would deliver the first taste of Office 2010 in mid-2009, Microsoft made it clear that the testing program would have a limited number of testers. A Beta development milestone of Office 2010 is planned for later this year and, according to the software giant, the bits will be offered to all users. Office 2010 will be released to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.
“So if you have received this error, please stay tuned to the Microsoft Connect site and they will be updating it with the new product keys as soon as they are available. Also, as noted above, please do not contact the Microsoft Connect Team about this issue as the Microsoft Office Team is already aware of it and working hard to resolve it. It is very exciting to see all of the phenomenal interest in this Technical Preview offering of Microsoft Office 2010 and to see us exceed our maximum number of key requests already,” explained Eric Ligman, Global Partner Experience Lead, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group.