The first Beta Build is the next iteration of the Office System that is now opened to the general public, after being offered to MSND and TechNet subscribers, as well as Microsoft Connect testers. Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 public downloads went live on day two of the company’s Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, and is currently up for grabs for all users that want to test drive the successor of Office 2007.At the time of this article, both the 32-bit (x86) and the 64-bit (x64) flavors of Office 2010 Beta 14.0.4536.1000 are available for download. What Microsoft is offering essentially is the Professiona... [read more >>] The first fully-fledged Beta Build of Office 2010 is now available for download to subscribers of Microsoft’s developer and IT professional portals. The Redmond company managed to live up to its promise to offer Office 2010 Beta by the end of November 2009, with public availability of the bits expected any day now, possibly as soon as tomorrow, November 18th. At the time of this article the latest development milestone of the next iteration of the Office System was only up for grabs via MSDN and TechNet, with the website set up to offer public downloads continuing to note that the bits would be served “soon.”Microsoft has... [read more >>] Microsoft is opening up access to the Cloud-based components of the Office 2010 System. September 17th, marked the second Technical Preview development milestone associated with Office 2010. However, this time around Microsoft was not introducing a new testing build of the productivity suite, but unveiling to a limited pool of testers the Could components associated with Office 2010. In mid-September 2009, the software giant launched the Office Web Apps Technical Preview. The successor of Office 2007 is the first productivity suite from the Redmond company no longer anchored exclusively on the desktop. In fact, in order to provide an alter... [read more >>] Microsoft is gearing up toward the release of the first public testing Build of the next iteration of the Office System. The Redmond company confirmed officially, at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, that it would start offering public downloads of Office 2010 Beta as early as next month. Come November 2009, the general public will get the chance to download, install and test drive Office 2010 Beta for free, the software giant confirmed. Microsoft did not reveal the specific availability deadline for Office 2010 Beta, and as such, testers and early adopters will have to exercise patience a little longer. The past week, a new de... [read more >>] Microsoft has kicked up a notch the Office 2010 Stock Keeping Unit strategy by promising users a new edition of the next iteration of the Office System. Office 2010 Starter is the new edition added to the Office 2010 SKU line, and it will be offered completely free of charge to customers who will buy a new computer from OEMs starting with the first half of 2010, when the successor of Office 2007 is planned for general availability. According to Microsoft, Office 2010 Starter will only be made available preinstalled on new PCs, and will not be offered as a standalone product. In this regard, the Starter edition of Office 2010 is designed to ... [read more >>] The official availability deadline for the Office 2010 Community Technology Preview is July 1st, 2009. With the Technology Preview development milestone Microsoft marks the first step toward the RTM of the next iteration of the Office System, which is planned for the first half of 2010, along with GA (general availability). Between Technical Preview and RTM, the software giant will also release a public Beta of Office 2010, at an unspecified date later this year. But for the time being, even with the CTP of Office 2010 not offered to the Technical Preview limited testing pool, the bits are up for grabs in the wild, having been leaked to tor... [read more >>] Microsoft has warned testers that have or are looking to jump the gun and grab the bits for Office 2010 Technology Preview before they are released through the company's official channels that the leaked CTP builds come with an inherent threat of getting infected with malicious code. There are similarities between the development processes of Windows 7 and that of Office 2010, formerly codenamed Office 14, in more aspects than one. Both of Microsoft's cash cows have been leaked and offered for download through illegal third-party sources, including torrent trackers. And both Windows 7 and Office 2010 are used by malware authors as... [read more >>] It was bound that Microsoft's main cash cows would suffer the same fate when it comes down to development milestones slipping into the wild from third-party testers. Well over a month ahead of Office 2010 Technical Preview's availability deadline, the bits have leaked and are now available for download from various sources, including torrent trackers. In this manner Office 2010, formerly codenamed Office 14, joins Windows 7, which has had all major development milestones as well as numerous interim builds leaked ahead of the official releases. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it had settled on the final brand under wh... [read more >>] It's time for the next stage in the evolution of the Office 2007 System. Microsoft will release Office 2007 Service Pack 2 today, April 28, 2009. The Redmond company has already announced the availability of the service pack; however, at the time of this article the download links for the service pack were not yet live Office 2007 SP2 is available here. Still, it is bound that Office 2007 SP2 RTM (release to manufacturing) will not take all that long to propagate through Microsoft's servers, and that the gold version of the service pack will go live later today. Service pack 2 for Office 2007 is applauded by Microsoft as being a s... [read more >>] Users of the Office System will have to wait for at least a year before being able to get their hands on the successor of Office 2007. Codenamed Office 14, the next version of the productivity suite, officially branded Office 2010, is scheduled for RTM and GA in the first half of 2010. Microsoft failed to pinpoint the specific dates at which it plans to release Office 2010 to manufacturing, or the general availability deadline, leaving itself a tad of elbow room. Still, the Redmond company will serve the first taste of Office 2010 by the end of this year, according to Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information W... [read more >>] | 
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