Office 2010

Microsoft's going the Google way to offer its widely used and highly-priced Office Suite Online for free.

Microsoft announced yesterday the availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 to its business customers.

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SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at its Office 2010 software, but it's keeping a key development - free Web-based versions of programs such as Word and Excel - under wraps a little while longer.