Microsoft has provided a test version of Office 2010 beta is free for members of the public to download. Beta test versions will run without a hitch until October 2010 during which the user must decide whether they wanted to buy the final release or remove them from your hard drive.
For the majority of the costs involved home users may still be better with the free OpenOffice Suite  as it should provide all the features you may need at no cost. This has been said, Office Suite has remained a mainstay of popular products for years because the business users often require a specific function or application is only present in the Microsoft offer. For example, using Outlook on a regular basis and have not found a suitable alternative to my needs.
faster than Office 2007 and the certainty is very stable. Increasing the speed could easily be attributed to the fact that the 64-bit versions of applications are now available to run on a modern 64-bit computers.
Office Professional 2010 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher. Home edition (also currently available in beta), including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. After the official release, the computer manufacturer may choose to bundle the new machines with a starter edition of Office that includes only Excel and Word; version of Office will replace the aging Microsoft Works Suite.
Although the ribbon interface remains, certainly much clearer than that provided with Office 2007; the confusing office has been replaced with the ball close the file menu, there is a little distracting border, a neutral color scheme of the most important and it is adjusted to the tastes of individual users. Applications look and behave like a ‘family’ now and has become more intuitive to use as a result of the user interface that is more subtle.
An important new feature will be released in final version, but missing from the beta is the ‘Web Apps’ which will extend the functionality of Office for a compatible web browser. Very similar in form to Google Docs, Office Web Apps allows users to collaborate, edit and share Office documents online. This is a new feature that is very important that no doubt occurs because the success of Google Docs.
This article is not long enough to go to details about the new features a little so I’ll summarize by observing that the changes made from Office 2007 to Office 2010 is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary; very much the same way that Windows 7 is an evolutionary change compared to Vista . Include Web Apps there but there is no new thing a small improvement is certainly welcome as an opportunity to road test the new software absolutely free for one year.

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