Download MS Office Professional Plus 2010 Free 60-Day Trial Version

Microsoft Office 2010 final version has been released and available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers.

If you also want to test Office 2010, here is a great news for you. Microsoft TechNet team has made available a 60-day trial version of fully functional Office 2010 Professional Plus to public.

Please note that it'll de-activate in 60 days and it requires the removal of previous versions of Office prior to installation.

Both 32 and 64-bit versions are available to download.

You can register for the free trial version using following link:

Download Free Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Trial

Microsoft Office 2010 RTM Available for TechNet and MSDN subscribers

Microsoft just released Office 2010 RTM today for their TechNet and MSDN subscribers.

 

If you happen to have a MSDN or TechNet subscription, head on over to download what will be the last version of Office 2010 before it's officially released. If you don't have a subscription, you can still download the beta release, which has been available since November.  For the rest of us, the official release will be available in June. The Microsoft Office 2010 RTM is available for both 32- or 64-bit Windows systems, and is a free download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers only on Windows.(RTM stands for "Release to Manufacturing, meaning it's the version of the software they'll be stamping the installation CDs/DVDs with.)

Download Microsoft Office 2010 RTM

Office 2010 RTM Coming in April, For Businesses on May 12

Microsoft has officially announced some important dates about release of its upcoming product Office 2010.

Microsoft says:

Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month i.e. April.

For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12. To find out more about the Worldwide Business Launch, visit this link.

For consumers, Office 2010 will be available online and on retail shelves this June. Until then, you can get the Office 2010 beta at this link.

Also 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.

All you need to be eligible for this program – Office 2010 Technology Guarantee – is the following:

• Purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010.
• Have, or create a Windows Live ID.
• Redeem your Tech Guarantee before October 31, 2010 by visiting www.office.com/techg.

The Office 2010 Technology Guarantee will be fulfilled online, via download, at no additional cost.

Microsoft confirms Office 2010 Release Candidate

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed : "Microsoft made a release candidate available to members in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP). This is one of Microsoft's planned milestones in the engineering process; however they do not have plans to make this new code set available broadly."

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.

Microsoft is expected to hit the RTM milestone in the coming months with a general availability date of June.

Microsoft Office 2010 Released in June 2010

 

It has now been confirmed that the next version of Microsoft Office will indeed be launching in June next year.

It was expected that the shipping date announcement would have come during PDC 2009, however here it comes a couple of weeks later. The beta was made available for free for early testers -- much like what Microsoft did with Windows 7.

In an interview with Betanews, Janice Kapner a company communications senior director spilled some beans about what's to come with one of Microsoft's next most eagerly awaited products, Office Web Apps.

The Office Web Apps were never expected to carry the same functionality as the desktop applications, and from their conversation it seems that you might not get much more functionality than you get today with Google Docs and Zoho, being given just enough features so that you can write a "quick letter" and share it someone, rather than write a 50-page term paper.

Besides the free online edition of Microsoft Office, there is another free feature-limited version of Office for those on a budget. The new Starter edition of Office 2010 is to be a ad-supported version of Office which will be only come bundled with new computers.