A date has been set for the release of the latest edition of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. According to Paul Thurrott in his WinInfo blog, Office 2010 will be generally available from the 15th of June 2010. This has since been backed up by an MS spokesman who has stated “we expect Office 2010 and related products to be generally available in June 2010″.
The product has been in development since 2006 and the beta has been around for a while. The release candidate (RC) version was made available to MSDN testers on the 5th of February.
Microsoft have also announced that customers purchasing copies Microsoft Office 2007 (from authorised resellers) between between 5th of March and the 30th of September will be able to download Office 2010 at no extra cost when available. So anyone who is looking to purchase the productivity suite software now need not worry about having an old version. For full details see here.
We have, of course, been testing out Microsoft Office 2010 for ourselves here at Glo (in fact this blog post was drafted in Word 2010). Keep an eye for out for a blog on our thoughts sometime soon!
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