Microsoft Office 2010 to ship in June, 2010

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In the Annual Professionals Developer Conference Microsoft launched the beta of Office 2010. For the latest, Microsoft announced the launch of an entirely new updated wave of Office applications in June 2010. As we had mentioned in our earlier post, Microsoft’s reincarnation of its Office suite seems more incremental than revolutionary. But change for better is always welcome. The Office suite 2010 will be updated for Windows and include ribbon feature for all products. The Redmond company will also be announcing Office 2010 for Mac OS X 2010. Office 2010 will be released in six different segments that would include free version of the most popular applications - Microsoft Word and Excel. However, these applications will have reduced functionality and will include advertisement. The editions of Office 2010 will come in Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus.

Currently, Office 2010 Professional Plus is available for public beta. It includes all the office products, excluding Visio 2010 and Project 2010. Microsoft Office 2010 will be released in full version and upgrade version, for users having Office 2007 installed. The Office Suite will be available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 in both 32-bit and 64-bit, except Windows XP x64.
Microsoft is yet to unfurl the official pricing for the full version or upgrade edition Office 2010 has been announced. The retail store date is scheduled for June 2010, users on TechNet and MSDN should be able to get their hands on a downloadable version earlier than the scheduled date.

Office 2010 will include these applications

* Microsoft Access 2010
* Microsoft Excel 2010
* Microsoft InfoPath Designer 2010
* Microsoft InfoPath Filler 2010
* Microsoft OneNote 2010
* Microsoft Outlook 2010
* Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
* Microsoft Publisher 2010
* Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010
* Microsoft Word 2010
* Office Communicator 2010

For now you can use the beta version.