Office 2010 Public Beta Now Available
Office 2010 Public Beta Now Available
Posted 11/18/2009 at 5:54pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Microsoft today announced the (official) launch of the Office 2010 beta. The official launch has come a week after the beta was leaked onto torrent sites. Microsoft first announced the beta on its website and Kurt DelBene, Office unit senior vice president at Microsoft, later confirmed the launch at the ongoing Professional Developers Conference (PDC). The beta can be downloaded from the official Office 2010 website.
The beta of Office Mobile 2010 is also now available from the Windows Mobile Marketplace. However, it is only meant for Windows Mobile 6.5. The consumer version of Office Web Apps – the online version of Office - is yet to bid adieu to the technical preview stage, however, the enterprise version has safely reached beta.
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Techrocket9
November 18, 2009 at 10:07pm
Support for macros in headers!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!! It's about time!!! I was just about ready to die because of manually editing the header for the millionth time!
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singlesamurai
November 18, 2009 at 8:43pm
Can you install the beta in conjunction with another install of Office? Or do you have to uninstall the older version first?
blinkbmx
November 18, 2009 at 9:26pm
if you have a 32bit version of office installed you cannot upgrade to the 64 bit version, you must do 32-32, otherwise you will need to unistall the older version. The upgrade worked like a charm though!
Computer Whiz
November 19, 2009 at 11:47pm
So I am using Office 2007 right now (how do I find out if it is 32-bit or 64-bit?) and I want to update to 2010, but I lost my 2007 activation code. So if I install 2010 I want to still be able to go back to 2007 just in case me or someone in my family doesn't for whatever reason like the 2010 version. If I installed the 2010 version into a different directory would I have the 2007 and 2010 version installed or would the 2010 version do a scan and overwrite the 2007 version?
Also will there be a certain time where the beta version stops working? Because I know some companies make the beta stop working once the final version of whatever it is comes out which makes you buy the real version. So does Microsoft do that?
Techrocket9
November 20, 2009 at 7:49am
All Office 2007 is/was 32 bit. They never made a 64 bit one.
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