When trying to install Office 2010 Beta on a machine with Office 2007, I received an error message saying it was unable to install because Office 2007 is already installed(which of course is not available in a 64 bit edition).
Are there ways around this?
For now, I installed Office 2010 Beta 32 bit version in a virtual machine.
You can ...kinda
I have installed the (32bit) office 2010 beta along side my office 2007 install. I don't know if it can be done with the 64bit version
you need to select 'customize' and choose a different folder to install it in (e.g 'microsoft office 2010' instead of the default 'microsoft office'.
there are a few buts: apparently both versions of outlook cannot co-exist and also each time you run the older/newer version office takes a couple of minutes to re-configure itself.
apart from that it seems to work for me fine
No
The Shared Components also need to be upgraded to 64Bit. 32Bit Office 2010 does allow it for everything except Outlook.
actually you can but it requires some hacking. if you are running windows 7 with xp mode installed, you can install one version in that virtual machine. i saw a microsoft rep with this setup a few months ago and it worked just fine.
