You’ve seen all the new features of Office 2010 and now its time to try them on your own computer.
The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on microsoft.com/office. And other then Office, you can also download Visio 2010 beta and Project 2010 beta for your Windows computer.
This is the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 edition so you get to experience Publisher and Infopath 2010 as well in addition to the regular Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook applications.
The Office installer weighs around 700 MB in size but you need around 3 GB of free space on your hard drive for the installation.
You can either upgrade your current version of Microsoft Office to Office 2010 Beta or select the Customize option during installation and set your current version of Microsoft Office to coexist with Office 2010 Beta.
All products require online activation after installation. In case of Office 2010, you can enter the serial number inside Word 2010 and it will automatically activate all other Office applications. Project and Visio will require separate activation since they use a different set of keys.
The beta version of Office 2010 will expire in October 2010. And other than English, Office 2010 is available for download in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.
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Reader Comments
Thanks, its 3 in Morning, and was just going through the RSS before a Sleep and found it … Now Downloading and would be posting it on site soon.. Thanks…. Man you are great……
Written by binterest.com on 11.18.09
I am currently running Windows XP SP2 on a Gateway 5012 PC with 4 GB of RAM, an Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHZ processor and a 500GB of hard drive drive. I plan on buying a new PC in 2010 upgrading to Windows 7 (64-bit version) along with getting a faster computer processor, more hard drive space and going up to 16 GB of RAM.
Given my current and planned PC situation if I download the beta version of Office 2010 is it better for me to download the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Office 2010? I don’t think I can properly run the 64-bit version of Office 2010 on my current PC. If I download the 32-bit beta version of Office 2010 onto my current PC then when I buy a new PC in 2010 that runs the 64-bit version of Windows 7 will the 32-bit beta version of Office 2010 work properly on the new PC?
Written by Mark on 11.18.09
Hey Amit,
Good news to know, well i got registered but when i click on download now button its not getting downloaded i tried both in mozilla and IE, can you please let me know the cause for this problem
Thanking You
Sai Pothuri
Written by saipothuri on 11.19.09
You did not specify the trial period??
Written by Vyas Sanzgiri on 11.19.09