Office 2010 beta is now available for download
If you want to see what Microsoft has in store for best-selling software of all time, Microsoft Office 2010 then here’s your chance. Microsoft has made available a public Beta of Office 2010 available for all. You can download the beta here.
Using the technical preview for a while now and I can tell you there is a lot new about Office 2010. The beta is available in seven languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, and German. Office Mobile 2010 is available for download from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones.
There are two versions of Office 2010: The full version, and the Starter version, which offers limited-feature versions of the three main programs in the suite, and will come installed on many new PCs. With both options, you will recieve 25GB of storage space and access to SkyDrive. Office 2010 will be released sometime in the first half of 2010 and no price has been announced as of this writting.
Here are the Office 2010 system requirements:
* Computer and processor: 500MHz processor or higher
* Memory: 256MB of RAM or higher
* Hard disk: 3GB; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard disk.
* Display: 1024 × 768 or higher-resolution monitor; 1024 × 576 or higher for Excel 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, and Word 2010
* Operating system: Windows XP with SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) with MSXML 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.
* Additional: Requirements and product functionality can vary based on the system configuration and operating system. Use of graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64MB or higher video memory.
via arstechnica
