Windows Office 2010 Beta Free!

[Derek]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx

Click Get It now! And you can test office 2010 for one year, I guess until they release the real version.

[Danielx386]

Oh Nice. I saw that on TechNet yesterday. I'm hoping that my experience will be better this time

[techairlines]

I just installed it and used it to type up some notes.

Is it just me or is it noticeably laggy? Its beta so I expect bugs but everything seems much slower than in 2007.

[pcjonathan]

I didn't know they release a public one. I have been testing 2010 for at least a month or two or even more. It seems cool sometimes and alright other times.

[adamparkzer]

I'm going to stick with the 2007 version for now until other people report the bugs and Microsoft fixes them. :P

[Livewire]

I'm going to stick with the 2007 version for now until other people report the bugs and Microsoft fixes them. :P

See you in 2015 ;)


In all seriousness, I agree; I like to know the apps I'm using aren't "beta" and prone to data-loss and complete epic fail of execution.

[p0qnt]

I just stick with OO.Org for now still. I just fire up Office if I need to track changes.

[Smith6612]

I downloaded the 2010 Beta last night and installed it to my Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I haven't played around with it too much but I did look through the first-look changes though. They didn't lose the ribbons so I'm assuming Office 2007 haters will be hating on 2010 over the ribbons, but I assume now in this version you can edit the ribbons.

[alexandgruntz]

I don't see the problem with the ribbon.

I haven't seen much difference apart from it being a different colour, but I'm not sure if I like the new File menu.

[srikri]

I just downloaded and install. The UI seem to be cool. But it is slow compared to previous versions and needs more memory and space. For now I will stick with OO.org.