Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Available For Public Download

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 by Ron Schenone at 2:44pm
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Microsoft is making available a public download of their Office 2010 beta, which incorporates many new features. Also available for download is SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 which are available for download at the link below.

So what’s new in this latest Office version?

The betas released today include everything we’ve talked about so far on this Blog and much more. In addition, today we announced several new facets of Office 2010 that you can check out when you download the beta:
The New Outlook Social Connector brings your communications history, business and social networking feeds right into Outlook, helping you quickly keep track of conversations and stay up-to-date with co-workers, friends and family without switching programs or changing your routine. Today’s beta supports SharePoint social networking and will support Windows Live when Office launches. The business networking site LinkedIn will be the first to provide a connector for the Outlook Social Connector early next year.
For developers and partners, SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 will combine with Visio 2010 using the tools you know and love, and have new rich APIs and support for industry standards to quickly build content and collaboration applications on the SharePoint and Office platform. We’re also releasing Outlook Social Connector SDK, available for download on MSDN, so developers can build connectors to third-party social networks. Start testing and building solutions for your customers today!
A new look. The Microsoft Office brand will sport a new look next year, reflecting technology innovations in Office 2010. The re-design includes an updated Office logo, a new orange color palette for the Microsoft Office brand, and updated icons for Office 2010 applications that make it easier to quickly identify the Office products you work in.

I downloaded the beta when it became available to Technet subscribers, but haven’t used it as of yet. If you decide to take Microsoft Office 2010 for a spin, let us know what you think of it.

Comments welcome.

Download link here

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6 Comments

Andy

November 18th, 2009
at 5:11pm

Interested in trying out Beta? Head to http://bit.ly/2X9NAa
for your free trial.

And don’t forget to log on to http://www.facebook.com/office to tell us what you think!

Andy
MSFT Office Outreach Team

Ron Schenone

November 18th, 2009
at 7:26pm

Thanks Andy

davidbanther

November 19th, 2009
at 7:42am

I never liked the 2007 facelift, but almost three years later is time we all get with it I guess. I might jump on to boot camp and try this out. I assume it works fine with Windows 7?

Ron Schenone

November 19th, 2009
at 1:11pm

It works fine with 7. I’m still looking for the new connector to get Outlook to work though. But if that is not important, everything else is ready to go.