Microsoft has released the final build (4763.1000) of Office 2010 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers today.
Microsoft said on Friday that its new Office suite, due in May for businesses and June for consumers, had reached the released to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The build leaked shortly after the official RTM announcement last Friday. Volume License customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the RTM bits on April 27.
Microsoft is currently running an Office 2010 Technology Guarantee. Customers who purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010 will be offered a free upgrade to Office 2010. Copies will be available online, via download, at no additional cost.
Microsoft is holding business launch event for Office 2010 in New York on May 12. Consumers will not be able to purchase the product until June. Although Microsoft officials will not confirm the exact date, In January Microsoft announced office 2010 pricing. The professional edition will retail for $499 boxed. Office 2010 will be released in at least five different flavours, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will include Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional and Professional Academic.
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Microsoft confirmed today that downloads of the Office 2010 beta have hit 1 million in just two weeks.
Microsoft introduced the Office 2010 beta during its now annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles late last month. Company officials demonstrated various new features during a keynote on November 18 including social networking integration into Outlook 2010, and Office Web Applications that allow you to read, edit and save documents in the browser.
Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division stated he was “very proud” of the download achievement in a message posted to his official twitter account. Earlier this week a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the software giant will be making Office 2010 available in June 2010. Office 2010 will be released in six different flavours, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will come in Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, standard, Professional and Professional Plus. No official pricing for the full version or upgrade edition of Office 2010 has been announced yet. Although the retail store date is scheduled for June 2010, users should be able to get their hands on a download-able version through TechNet and MSDN earlier than the street date.
If you’re interested in trying out the Office 2010 beta then it’s available for download for free. If you want to know what’s new then check out BlogoFlux’s Office 2010 top new features guide.
Microsoft has made the Office 2010 beta available publicly today.
Earlier this week Microsoft released the beta to MSDN and TechNet customers. We has taken a look at the top features of Office 2010. Improvements include social networking intergration into Outlook 2010, smart pasting options and of course Office Web Applications to allow you to read, edit and save documents in the browser.
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Microsoft has made the latest beta of Office 2010 available to MSDN and TechNet customers.
The release follows news that Office 2010 beta builds have begun leaking from the software giant.
It’s widely expected that a public beta build of Office 2010 will be available this week. Microsoft has kept quiet on the reports but has hinted on the official Office twitter account “MS Office team has some exiting news to tell at PDC. This is a must attend event. Stay tuned!” and a follow up post hints at possible social networking features in Outlook, “would you like your inbox to talk to your social networks? Useful integration or distraction?”.
Update: The build 14.0.4514.1004 is available to MSDN/TechNet customers. 14.0.4536.1000 is also available to technical beta testers.