Can't get enough box art? Well then you're in luck. Polish website CentrumXP has posted what appear to be leaked images of the retail boxes for Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite, or at least four of the versions.

The site posted shots of Office 2010 Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional, and Professional Academic. Standing out among the four versions is Office Professional Academic 2010, which is an edition no one seems to have known was in the works. In July of this year, Microsoft announced the other three versions above, plus Standard and Professional Plus (both of which will only be available via volume licensing).

So are these leaked shots the real deal? We don't know, but since Standard and Professional Plus will come via volume licensing, it would explain why those box shots weren't shown. And CentrumXP is also the same sight that leaked photos of Windows 7 retail boxes, half of which turned out to be legit.

What's the verdict, real or fake? Hit the jump and tell us!

Through the Microsoft Partner Network, the Redmond software outfit is offering its partners a deal it hopes their clients will find too good to refuse. The deal is 20 percent off Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, which is an okay promotion by itself, but it also comes with a free upgrade to Microsoft 2010 when it launches in June of next year.

Clients who take advantage of the 'Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion' (forget about trying to say that three times fast, and see how long it takes you just to say it three times normally), are also eligible for additional beneifts tied to the licensing program they make their purchases through, as well as the quanity of qualifying licenses they purchase. All clients will have the option to spread payments over three years, training vouchers for employees, E-Learning courses, and rights to install Microsoft Office on a home PC in addition to a work computer.

If you're not a business owner, which is who this deal is aimed at, don't fret. As Arstechnica points out, it's very likely Microsoft will offer some kind of consumer incentive to preorder Office 2010 before its launch, not to mention promotional pricing like the Ultimate Steal Microsoft has run in the past.

The open source movement might just be on to something with Open Office 4 Kids (OOo4Kids), a productivity suite aimed at the much younger crowd between the ages of 7 and 12. And if DownloadSquad.com has anything to say about it, adults may prefer it to the regular version of Open Office as well.

According to the project's wiki, OOo4Kids is based on OpenOffice.org source code, but because certain aspects have been stripped out, it loads noticeably faster than the full fledged suite. There's a lot less going on in the UI, and larger buttons point out all the obvious features. But aside from the splash screen, it doesn't look overly childish, so we could also see this being installed on Aunt Angie's machine.

As expected, there are some features that are missing, such as Base, and power users won't be content with al the advanced controls, but in our limited test run, we were fairly impressed with OOo4Kids. There's still a lot you can do with it, the interface isn't condescending, and it's fast.

If you want to check it out for yourself, you can download the latest version (0.5) here.

Google is launching an all-out offensive against Microsoft and its Microsoft Office software suite with a new ad campaign called "Going Google." In addition to being spattered all over the web, the new ads will also appear on billboards on four major U.S. highways that will give a new message about Google Apps everyday for a month. Said highways include the 101 in San Francisco, the West Side Hwy in New York, the Ike in Chicago, and Mass Pike in Boston.

The strategically placed ads, which will target IT managers stuck in traffic jams, will focus on how and why some 3,000 organizations are signing up to use Google Apps each day. According to Google, more than 1.75 million businesses, schools, and organizations have joined to use the various combinations of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and other Google Apps.

Google's new ad campaign represents the latest in an ongoing war between the search giant and Microsoft. Google recently announced the development of its Chrome OS, while Microsoft recently announced a deal to take over Yahoo's search business.