Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Available Now

Andrew Cunningham | Nov 18, 2009 | Comments

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Maybe some of you have gotten it from the torrents already, but the less adventurous of you will be interested to know that Microsoft has made the Office 2010 beta available for public download.

You can get it here, from Microsoft’s Office 2010 Web site. It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, and comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, a first for the world’s most popular productivity suite.

Says Microsoft’s well-oiled PR machine:

We’re excited to announce the public beta of the 2010 versions of Office, SharePoint Server, Visio, Project and Office Web Apps for business customers. Office Mobile 2010 has also reached the beta milestone. Starting today people can download the beta products by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/2010.We are hoping to have millions of people download and test the products, as we depend on that feedback to shape the final product. To get the broadest range of feedback we are making this beta available in seven languages — English, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French and German — more than any other Office beta program in the past.

Microsoft Office 2010 features, among other things, an enhanced Ribbon interface and tighter integration with Windows 7.

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  • rush2112
    Works great and seems to be activated forever. There is an upgrade option on it if you had office 2007 like me.
  • Stephen
    The Office 2010 beta will expire in October 2010. To be specific, it will turn non-functional on 10/31/10.

    Stephen
  • Razor7Tech
    Hello--

    I took a (reckless) leap and tried to install the beta of MS Office 2010. Word and Excel installed and ran smoothly, but Outlook would never start. When I tried to open it, I got to the part where I select the Outlook profile i want to use, then it would crash.

    I removed the profile and created a new one. Still would crash. I decided to return Outlook to my previous version of 2007 and test around with Word and Excel, but I was not allowed to run Outlook 2007. It would crash at the same place. I tried to register the msi executable, reinstall the Windows installer, run the installer clean up agent, nothing.

    I then decided to roll completely back to Office 2007. Same issues. No installer found, errors, infinitely crash and restart Outlook. I ended up having to roll my computer back to an earlier restore point just to get Outlook to work again. Here are samples of the Application events that came out of all of this. After awhile, I thought I should check to make sure Outlook 2010 is compatible with our version of Exchange, which is 2003 and I could not find anything when I searched Google.

    Any ideas what might be going on here?

    "Computer: 4XYCNG1
    Description:
    The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Office 14 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: outlook.exe, 14.0.4536.1000, 4af1d60f, mapi32x.dll, 6.5.6944.0, 3edc4c40, 0, 0002f397.
    Data:
    0000: 41 00 70 00 70 00 6c 00 A.p.p.l.
    0008: 69 00 63 00 61 00 74 00 i.c.a.t.
    0010: 69 00 6f 00 6e 00 20 00 i.o.n. .
    0018: 46 00 61 00 69 00 6c 00 F.a.i.l.
    0020: 75 00 72 00 65 00 20 00 u.r.e. .
    0028: 20 00 6f 00 75 00 74 00 .o.u.t.
    0030: 6c 00 6f 00 6f 00 6b 00 l.o.o.k.
    0038: 2e 00 65 00 78 00 65 00 ..e.x.e.
    0040: 20 00 31 00 34 00 2e 00 .1.4...
    0048: 30 00 2e 00 34 00 35 00 0...4.5.
    0050: 33 00 36 00 2e 00 31 00 3.6...1.
    0058: 30 00 30 00 30 00 20 00 0.0.0. .
    0060: 34 00 61 00 66 00 31 00 4.a.f.1.
    0068: 64 00 36 00 30 00 66 00 d.6.0.f.
    0070: 20 00 69 00 6e 00 20 00 .i.n. .
    0078: 6d 00 61 00 70 00 69 00 m.a.p.i.
    0080: 33 00 32 00 78 00 2e 00 3.2.x...
    0088: 64 00 6c 00 6c 00 20 00 d.l.l. .
    0090: 36 00 2e 00 35 00 2e 00 6...5...
    0098: 36 00 39 00 34 00 34 00 6.9.4.4.
    00a0: 2e 00 30 00 20 00 33 00 ..0. .3.
    00a8: 65 00 64 00 63 00 34 00 e.d.c.4.
    00b0: 63 00 34 00 30 00 20 00 c.4.0. .
    00b8: 66 00 44 00 65 00 62 00 f.D.e.b.
    00c0: 75 00 67 00 20 00 30 00 u.g. .0.
    00c8: 20 00 61 00 74 00 20 00 .a.t. .
    00d0: 6f 00 66 00 66 00 73 00 o.f.f.s.
    00d8: 65 00 74 00 20 00 30 00 e.t. .0.
    00e0: 30 00 30 00 32 00 66 00 0.0.2.f.
    00e8: 33 00 39 00 37 00 0d 00 3.9.7...
    00f0: 0a 00 .. "


    "Event Type: Error
    Event Source: Microsoft Office 14
    Event Category: None
    Event ID: 2001
    Date: 11/18/2009
    Time: 2:46:32 PM
    User: N/A
    Computer: 4XYCNG1
    Description:
    The description for Event ID ( 2001 ) in Source ( Microsoft Office 14 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Microsoft Outlook, Outlook failed to start correctly last time. Starting Outlook in safe mode will help you correct or isolate a startup problem in order to successfully start the program. Some functionality may be disabled in this mode.

    Do you want to start Outlook in safe mode?."

    Safe mode would not work in either version, BTW.




    --
    Stephen Davis
    Systems Administrator Specialist
  • Jonathan
    the "here" link you crossed out does work. You have to click on the link in the top right, and then on the next page click it again.

    Good, but the windows 7 integration is still only for Outlook.
  • hi ,Has some features that are worthless, social networking, but are marketing standards, everything that is available in the market is facebook compliant. and also lots of the “new” features were available as standards on OpenOffice since version 1.
    The ;only good thing is the new printing layout…

    Attorney

    Moremony
  • Andy_oteam
    I'm glad you all have had a chance to try out Office 2010 and how it integrates with Windows 7. Feel free to log on to http://www.facebook.com/office and tell us what you think!

    Andy
    Office Outreach
  • Jonathan
    errrm it hardly is intergrated.
  • rush2112
    I don't see why you would say it is integrated. that just sounds like a fairly useless feature that sounds good to me.
  • iMatt
    From its fisher-price icons to the additional "bells and whistles" I don't think that Office 2010 will be worth its future price which will no doubt follow that of the overpriced Office '07.
    Backstage is an inconsistent mess, the tabs remain relatively unchanged, the "exiting" transitions in powerpoint are no doubt copied right from Apples Keynote itself. The only benefit from the users perspective other than have to hunt around for even more things is that is starts faster and only of you put a stopwatch too it.

    To put it simply, Microsoft's Office 2010 is becoming more bloated, just like Windows. Save your money.
  • Stephen
    Obviously you habe't actually used it. The back stage concept is now well refined in the beta; all apps share a common interface; the ribbon is now entirely customizable; your customizations can now be exported in two clicks and then imported into any other machine running 2010; and the integration with web based apps is a good start as a beta and will be quite impressive by release. Oh, it also now offers a native 64 bit version of the entire suite. BTW, since it is a free beta, there is hardly an issue of saving money. People can readily try the suite for themselves and make up their own mind.

    Stephen
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