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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In the preview, discovered that most applications show substantial differences in their counterparts in the current version, Office 2007.

Although some changes were made to the interface, anyone acquainted with the Ribbon interface in Office 2007 will have little difficultness in starting to work with Office 2010.

Microsoft has also said that any computer capable of running Office 2007 will meet the system necessaries for Office 2010 and later Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The most important feature is the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Unluckily, these are not included in the technical preview version, but hope to get one of these hands, while Microsoft make test builds available in August.

One aspect of Office 2010 that potential users should be aware of its huge size, the installation program has introduced a warning during installation that requires a typical configuration of at least 1.5 GB of disk space free.

This isn’t a problem with terabyte drives on the market, but if you have a laptop or a netbook with flash solid state drive storage, 1.5 GB can be a significant amount of free space available.

In use, we found that the year 2010 and no further requests, which seems more like a code before the release test version.

Changes in the user interface in most common applications are accessible from the Backstage to look a new Office button. And provide access to files, print and share options, it shows a great deal of information on the current document, including permits editing and publication of the application is in compatibility mode.

Cut and paste has also been modified so that users now get an overview of what changes occur. Users get the ability to paste text in Word format with the source or format of the paragraph to be inserted in, for example.

New features include the ability to edit images and add effects in Word, without having to go through a publisher. PowerPoint extends this for the simple editing of video content embedded in a presentation.

Outlook now has a feature called quick action allows the user to combine several actions in one click, similar to macros. For example, a preparation combining defined Quick Step response to the message and delete actions. Users can not define their own list of quick actions, including the ability to move messages to folders.

Another important feature of Office 2010 is to improve collaboration. Word, PowerPoint and OneNote now allows multiple users to work on a document at the same time, but this requires access to SharePoint, whether for business or users of Windows Live for consumers.

In this regard, Microsoft continues a process begun several years ago to integrate Office with other Microsoft products and services, so that customers require a significant investment in infrastructure from Microsoft to get the maximum benefit from the Office.

In general, our first impression is that Office 2010 represents a relatively minor compared to the year 2007, was on the contrary, a significant break with earlier versions of the suite.

Office 2010 if this is useful for current users to upgrade to Office 2007 or Office 2003 is difficult to measure, at the time of writing, Microsoft has not yet revealed the price of the next version.