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Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for free download in Beta form.
The exact version available for download is Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta, including versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft OneNote, and Microsoft Outlook.
The updated Office will be available in two separate formats: a traditional PC-based edition and a completely web-based version. Both products are expected to be released in the first half of 2010.
So far, Microsoft has offered a preview of its next desktop suite only to a relatively small group of testers. It has also opened the online edition , Office Web Apps, to a similar preview.
Office Web Apps includes lightweight versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint and will be made available to millions free of charge in the first half of next year, the only timetable Microsoft has set for Office 2010's ship date.
Anyone will be eligible to test drive the Office 2010 beta, said Microsoft today - see technical specifications below.
Sporting mostly incremental improvements, Office 2010 serves to bridge the gap between the Windows Vista and Windows 7 eras by streamlining the product's controversial Ribbon-based user interface and extending it to encompass the full range of Office applications.
Last summer, Microsoft said that it expected to distribute millions of copies of the Office 2010 public beta.
You must have a Windows Live ID to download the software.
Technical specifications for running the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta:
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