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Microsoft pushes Office 2010 release candidate to testers
This isn't news to the crew at Wzor.net, of course, who have made a habit of putting leaked RC, beta, and RTM software from Microsoft on display for all to see. They've confirmed that Microsoft is already internally testing an RTM escrow build of Office 2010.
As a Microsoft spokesperson told NeoWin, "Microsoft made a release candidate available to members in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP). This is one of Microsoft's planned milestones in the engineering process; however they do not have plans to make this new code set available broadly."
Fortunately for eager testers, Microsoft's own distribution plans won't hold you back. Leaked RC builds are circulating on various torrent sites (and other P2P networks like eMule), so you can still find a copy to test if you're OK with the associated risks.
We wouldn't advise that, of course.
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Subscribe to commentsGardiner WestboundFeb 3rd 2010 12:53PM
Don't care. Switched to OpenOffice a couple of years ago. It has everything I need in an office suite, and it's free.
Lee MathewsFeb 3rd 2010 12:56PM
Gotta love the irony of taking the time to post a 'don't care' comment on a post about something you don't care about...
KeegdnaBFeb 3rd 2010 12:59PM
I thought so too....until Openoffice became so horribly slow and generally unplesant to use. It's also still stuck in the UI days of office 03. I was never a fan of 07 by any means, but now that that I've used 2010 I don't think I could go back to openoffice until they do a major overhaul in both look and performance.
PeterFeb 3rd 2010 2:38PM
@Gardiner - Open Office is a great option if you work alone or in a very small group where everyone else has OO too. However, if you need to exchange heavily formatted documents with other Office users, you really need to be using Office.
Gardiner WestboundFeb 3rd 2010 3:12PM
National and state governments are switching to OOo, so we figured it would be OK for our small consultancy. So far, so good. We have little need for exotic formatting and have had fewer transportability issues than with the various MS Office versions, and we save the not insignificant upgrade expense. Sometimes I think M$ changes things just to make them look different.
Reports are sent out for comment in pdf format using Foxit Phantom. Not free, but reasonably priced, and it does everything we need. In fact, I think it's superior to Adobe Acrobat!
We are experimenting with Photofiltre for photo manipulation. If we don't like it we will try Paint net. Both are freeware. Then it's sayonara Photoshop.
octoberasianFeb 3rd 2010 12:59PM
I've had Office 2010 Beta on my laptop for a few months now and I'm surprised at how much faster it loads compared to 2007 and even OpenOffice 3.1. However, features-wise, Office > OpenOffice, even on interoperability.
Example: I opened a Powerpoint slide a few weeks ago made in Office 2007 but won't display properly in OpenOffice Impress. And, there is supposed to be compatibility between the two.
darwinsurvivorFeb 4th 2010 4:05AM
Will it finally support* odf?
* actually support, not just "claim" to