Microsoft Office 07 USB edition

[st3v3]

i know this aint phone/PDA related but im at a loss to explain how this works.

i picked this up over the weekend via torrents thinking it would be full of viruses but turned out not only to be virus free but to work flawlessly.

did anyone else manage to get it? ive been able to run it on PCs running XP SP1 and XP SP2 both with a standard install of office 03.

the USB 07 seems to only load what it needs to into memory the really wierd part is it comes with 7 files with only one being 500 meg

MSTORE.EXE 21kb
EXCEL.EXE 35kb
WINWORD.EXE 53kb
OIS.EXE 36kb
POWERPNT.EXE 50kb
OFFDIAG.EXE 209kb
MSACCESS.EXE 531,148 kb

and yes ive done 2 virus scans with 2 different scanners LOL

any ideas?

[sparkyboy22]

Be interesting to see, i've found the torrent and am going to have a go this evening.

Perhaps its only the exe files that differ to a 2003 installation or is that far too simplistic a view?

Surely there have to be some features that don't work properly?

[Impossible]

prehaps its a version that will work off a USB drive without being installed?


Imp

[sparkyboy22]

Office 2007 Basic lists its requirements as 1.5Gb HD Space, it would take a lot of work to thin this to 1/3 of the size and maintain functionality.

However....

I have tried this myself now, works on Vista Ultimate with office 2003 installed. Also ran it on XP sp2 with no office installed and also tried them both with no connection to the internet present and all apps ran fine.


Did you notice that it said powered by thinstall on startup.

Have a look at

http://www.thinstall.com/sales/present_frame.php?mytitle=Thinstalled+Microsoft+Of fice&myloc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinstall.com%2Fdemos%2Foff ice_vs%2Findex.html&myheight=600&mywidth=735&mybodytext=See%20how%20Thinstalled%20can%20be%20us ed%20to%20package%20and%20run%20MS%20Office%20on%2 0locked-down%20PCs%2C%3Cbr%3E%3Ca%20href%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fth install.com%2Fdemos%2Foffice_vs.zip%3EDownload%20z ip%20file%3C%2Fa%3E%0D%0A&refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fthinstall.com%2Fproducts%2Fres ources_get.php?aid=14

Appears that it is an up to date version of this.

[hanmin]

I've just read and did a search around, there are definately some running wild in the net. Ok, even if they run nicely now, do you think there will be an expiry date on it making it invalid say .. tomorrow? :) anyway, i did a check on this 'thinstall' as well, it seems that they have OpenOffice in 100MB .. that's nice enough for me. I'm supporter of OpenOffice.

[st3v3]

yeah i been using it for 3 days now with not many issues on serivce pack 2 XP. had a few funky errors but nothing that didnt occur more than once.

it has everything available even the million rows in excel and the few new formulas in excel and access.

its very nice if you cant use 07, microsoft should look at selling it on USB keys LOL!!

@ sparky yeah i did some googles and saw that one. was interesting that you tried it on a computer with no office on it, was talking with a friend who wanted to try that too.

still baffled by its size and power given the size of the proper version.

yeah open office is ok but its no office 07 with black interface LOL