Office 2010 Public Beta Begins Next Week

Microsoft today sent out an email to current Office 2010 Click-to-Run beta participants telling them the public beta for the upcoming Office 2010 suite will be available next week. The email states they will be removing the previous builds of Office 2010 for download tomorrow in preparation for the new release. Microsoft has also closed the Office 2010 Connect groups too. Next week the download details for the new build will be sent out to Connect participants via another email.

The email sent out today states:

Dear Technical Preview Participants,

Thank you so much for all your feedback on the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview. Your feedback has been of great help to the product team.

We are starting to prepare the Microsoft Connect site for the next Office 2010 release that we will also be asking for you to provide feedback on to us. You will receive an email next week with more information about the new release.

Starting November 10, 2009, the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview release will no longer have available for downloading. You can continue to use the product on any computer it is installed.

It is important that you plan for the next product release. This release will NOT be upgradeable. You will be required to completely uninstall the current version of your product on the machine. We strongly advise that you backup all of your data files, before you uninstall the Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview release.

Again, thank you for your participation and feedback in the Office 2010 Office 2010 Click-to-Run Technical Preview Program.

Office 2010 Click-to-Run Product Team

Read our full review of the Office 2010 Consumer Technical Preview we reviewed earlier this summer.

Author: Alex Gasparski

Editor-In-Chief of TechReviewSource.com

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