Microsoft is specifying a real date on which business users will be able to get their hands on Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: May 12.
Consumers will have to wait until June to buy the product online and at retail, Microsoft officials said on March 5, via a post to the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog.
The Office team has just posted some great news on their blog. Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are all on track to RTM next month!
Today’s post is just a quick status update to keep everyone in the loop on the progress Office 2010 is making, as well as to provide finalized details for our Office 2010 Technology Guarantee.
Starting today, consumers who purchase and activate Office 2007 will be able to download Office 2010 at no additional cost when it becomes available in June 2010.
Link – http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/03/04/get-office-today-or-tomorrow.aspx
In most cases, yes! CPU and RAM requirements for Office 2010 are the same as for Office 2007, so if your computer meets the Office 2007 system requirements, you can run Office 2010. A graphics chipset will help boost the performance of certain features and disk footprint has increased (more on these points later), but as general rules:
Link – http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/01/22/office-2010-system-requirements.aspx
Office 2010 will be offered in four versions: Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. See more on the announcement at the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog or click here to download a more detailed guide to each edition.
Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/archive/2010/01/05/office-2010-pricing-announced.aspx
I’ve been using Office 2010 for a few months now, and over time I’ve realised that there is a lot of clever stuff hidden inside this new version.
When I say “hiddenâ€, I mean that in a positive way. One of the big things with Office 2010 is that there are a huge number of things which don’t change – things like the Ribbon menu and all of the new file formats which arrived with Office 2007. The benefit of this is that it is easier for users to migrate, but as a user, it has meant it’s taken me a little while to find the things which are very new.
One of the underlying things is that all of the applications work much more effectively in an Internet connected world – and use that to improve users’ ability to save and share information.
Office Home & Business 2010
Office Home & Student 2010
Office Professional Academic 2010
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Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications in June 2010. The Office suite will be updated for Windows, including ribbon support for all products, and will also be launching Office 2010 for Mac OS X sometime in 2010.
Link – http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/30/office-2010-schedule-for-june-release
Now that we’ve had some time to play with the Office 2010 Professional Beta, we thought we’d share what’s new and useful inside Microsoft’s big suite. Take a gander at the pictorial evidence below.
Overall, Office 2010 is not the kind of leap forward that Windows 7 was from Vista (or, for most PC upgraders, from XP). It adds a lot of stuff that’s previously been available only through plug-ins, makes performing the basic tasks of opening, printing, and sharing documents a good deal more convenient, and throws in a few new features that will expand the repertoire of those who really know their Office.
Link – http://lifehacker.com/5411837/hands+on-look-at-whats-new-in-office-2010
"Thank you for evaluating and providing feedback on the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. We now invite you to download the Office 2010 Beta at http://office.com/beta The Beta release of Office 2010 marks the closing of the Technical Preview program. Going forward, please visit http://office.com/beta for product downloads, articles, product information and links to forums related to Office 2010. There, you can download and install the latest pre-release version of Office 2010 client software and experience the exciting new features we have added to server products such as SharePoint Server 2010 and Project Server 2010. "
Search Server 2010 Express Beta (x64) – (English)
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Office Web Applications Beta (x64) – (English)
Visio Premium 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Visio Premium 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
FAST Search Server 2010 Beta for SharePoint (x64) – (English)
Project Server 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Project Professional 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Project Professional 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (x86 and x64) – (English)
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (x86 and x64) – (English)
SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
Link – http://msdn.microsoft.com.
As the public Microsoft Office 2010 beta approaches (build 14.0.4514.1007 if you’re playing along), the Office online companion website set to take center stage on Microsoft’s recently acquired Office.com has also undergone a radical redesign.
Link – http://www.istartedsomething.com/20091114/the-new-2010-office-com-online-portal-enters-beta/
Today, Microsoft sent out an email to Click-To-Run Technical Preview participants that outlined the public beta which was announced by Microsoft last month; next week an email will be sent out to give further details.
This news follows the announcement of other closing Connect groups, such as the fully-fledged Office 2010 Technical Preview group earlier last week.
Link – http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/09/offcie-2010-public-beta-to-begin-next-week
Microsoft has decided that its Office Accounting product just doesn’t add up.
The software maker said on Friday that it plans next month to stop distributing the accounting product line, ending the latest in a series of efforts to take on market leader Intuit.
The accounting product line was launched in 2005 amid some fanfare, but failed to grab much market share and was later pulled from retail shelves in favor of online-only sales.
We’re thrilled about the growing number of people who are using Microsoft Office every day to get things done at work, at home, at school and on the go. For instance:
On the heels of such positive momentum, we’re excited to talk about big improvements in the way we’ll deliver the next version of Office to consumers.
Microsoft officials shared on October 8 more details about three new ways the company is planning to try distributing Office 2010 when the product ships next summer.
Via a post on the Office 2010 Engineering blog, Microsoft officials explained three new distribution mechanisms the company will use to get more users to try the next version of Office.
