Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for Free

noiembrie 25 09:00 2009

Microsoft have now released the latest version of Office 2010 for free for download to the public. This beta 2 release of the product has updated versions of all the office products which now all have the office ribbon fully implemented. Microsoft has also applied the very successful development process they used for Windows 7 to Office 2010 which has resulted in a very high quality product even for this beta release. I have been used the product for about 2 months now and with exception of just a few icons the product is pretty much looks finished and is very usable for day to day use.

Microsoft are also offering Office 2010 as free web based version that you will be able to run in almost any browser (including Firefox and Safari) from you Windows Live SkyDrive. This will allow you to make changes to your documents even when you don’t have office installed on the computer you are using. Meaning you can now edit and view office documents on virtually any OS including Google’s Chrome OS and Linux.

Another cool new feature of Microsoft Office 2010 is the Outlook Social Connector that shows you to view social networking feeds. While this might not seems like a very work related feature it does allow you to automatically synchronise update contact information when they make updates to their social network profiles.

Word 2010 also offers multiuser co-authoring which enabled more than one persons to edit a word document at the same time. This is very handy feature if you have multiple people co-authoring the same document as you no longer have to manage multiple copies of the documents at the same time.

Another big change is that there will also be a new 64bit version of the product for people with system with more than 4gb of ram. While it might be a bit pointless to have a 64bit version of Word, having a 64bit version of Excel (and Access) means that users can actually take advantage of the extra ram to really crunch those enormous databases.

For more information about Office 2010 and to download it right now go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010

By Alan Burchill

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