Early Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 Leaked to Torrent Sites
Microsoft has released an early build of Office 2010 to a select group of testers, and, inevitably, Microsoft’s next office suite has already leaked out onto the web and is now burning up a torrent tracker near you.
If torrents of pre-beta software aren’t your bag, the official way to get your hands on a copy of the Office 2010 Technical Preview is to registered with Microsoft and hope that you’re one of the lucky few selected to receive the Preview release in July 2009.
So what’s new in Office 2010? Judging by the leaked screenshots posted by our friends over at Ars Technica, the Ribbon interface is now universal and the overall UI seems more polished. Perhaps the biggest change is that the orb, the button menu in the Ribbon (at the far left of the Ribbon) is reportedly no longer a menu. Rather, it pops up a small overlay window with all the same options.
Some applications have changed names. Groove, a collaboration component of Office 2007, will now be known as SharePoint Workspace, and both SharePoint and the popular OneNote component will be part of the Office Professional Plus release.
Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. If you upgrade to Windows 7, Office applications will integrate nicely with the new taskbar, allowing you to create new calendar appointments and add new contacts directly from the taskbar.
If you decided to give the leaked torrents a try, be sure to let us know what you think.
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