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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

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1. Review system requirements.

2. Register for evaluation.

3. Download software.

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With Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, your people get a wide range of powerful new ways to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, smartphone or web browser. From insightful updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook, to new server integration capabilities that make it easier for everyone to track, report and share vital information, Office Professional Plus 2010 offers the complete package through familiar, intuitive tools.
What's Included

Word

OneNote

InfoPath
PowerPoint

Access

SharePoint Workspace
Outlook

Publisher

Communicator
Excel

See Microsoft Office 2010 for yourself

We are inviting you to work with Office Professional Plus 2010 on your secondary PCs in order to help ensure smooth adoption when the final product is available and gather feedback from real world settings.

Here’s what you need to know:

This is pre-release software, so please read the following to get an idea of the risks and key things you need to know before you try the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta.

Protect your PC and data. Be sure to back up your data and please don’t test Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta on your primary home or business PC.

Uninstall any previous versions of Microsoft Office. We highly recommend that previous versions of Microsoft Office be removed from your test machine before installing Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta.

Technical details/updates. Before installing the Beta please read the Release Notes.

Keep up with the news. You can keep up with general technical information and news by participating in the Microsoft Office 2010 Forum (on TechNet) and reading the Microsoft Office 2010 Team Blog.

Keep your PC updated. Be sure to turn on automatic updates in Windows Update in case we publish updates for the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta.

Microsoft Partners. Learn more about Office Professional Plus 2010 on the Microsoft Partner Portal.

Here’s what you need to have*:


Internet access. Internet access (to download Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta and get updates)

A PC with these minimum recommended specifications:

* 500 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
* 256 MB of system memory or more
* 3.5 GB of available disk space
* 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
* DVD-R/W Drive

Supported Operating Systems:

* Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit)
* Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
* Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) with MSXLM 6.0 installed
* Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
* Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
* Terminal Server and windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are supported.

*Please note these specifications could change.

Get the download

After registering, you will be able to select the version (we recommend 32-bit which runs great on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows) and your software language. Downloading the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta could take an hour or more. The exact time will depend on your provider, bandwidth, and traffic. The good news is that once you start the download, you won't have to answer any more questions – you can walk away while it finishes. If your download gets interrupted, it will restart where it left off. Once the download is complete, launch the downloaded file and follow the set up instructions.

Once the download is complete, launch the downloaded file and follow the set up instructions.

Important changes in product activation

We’ve made some important changes to how Microsoft Office products are activated. The new activation method is based on the Software Protection Platform first introduced in Windows Vista and currently used in Windows 7. Please take note of the information provided on the Product Key page that displays during the download process. Follow the instructions on that page for activating your beta software immediately after the setup procedure completes. For more information please see the Release Notes.

The Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta software is available in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

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