Office 2010 Pricing details revealed

Office 2010 Engineering blog has released Office 2010 U.S. retail pricing today. According to them, Office 2010 will be available in four different flavors that best suits for you – Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. Here’s a chart that outlines the features and pricing for each version.

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Broadcast your PowerPoint Presentation over the web

The Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast Service makes it easy for PowerPoint 2010 users to share a presentation on the fly with anyone, anywhere, over the web.

Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser, even if they don’t have PowerPoint 2010 installed.

To broadcast your slides to an audience, follow the directions below.

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Download now : Microsoft Office 2010 developer training kit

Any developer who is looking for Office customization, SharePoint integration, or who wants to build cool add-ins for Office system, i suggest u to download the training kit and get ahead on the office development ramp.

This training kit is an offline complement to the Office Learning Center and provides you with links to the videos but you’ll have the hands-on labs (HOLs), source code and presentations conveniently available on your machine.

The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit content is designed to help you get started developing solutions, from add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform.

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Office 2010 Beta available to public | Download now

I have posted about the availability of office 2010 beta only to MSDN and Technet Subs, now normal users without MSDN and technet can also download the Office 2010 through following link. Both the 64 and the 32 bits are available to the public for download.

Download Office 2010 beta

Office 2010 Beta Homepage

Office 2010 Beta FAQ

Top 10 benefits of Office 2010 Beta

You may use the following MAK key to activate your evaluation copy of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta.

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Direct download links are also available | 32 Bit (684.47 MB) | 64 Bit (749.87 MB)

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Download Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Beta

Today Microsoft has made the availability of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Beta to the MSDN and technet Subscribers. They are offering only Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta 32 and 64 bit versions, and Only 64 bit version of SharePoint Server 2010 Beta .

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How to Start using Office Web Apps in Windows Live

Microsoft Office Web Apps are free online companions to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that give you the freedom to view, create, and edit documents from a supported Internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari).

From virtually anywhere, Office Web Apps let you work the way you want:

• Storing files on Windows Live SkyDrive and editing them with Office Web Apps lets you work from virtually anywhere.
• Office Web Apps allow you to easily share your documents and work with others.
• Office Web Apps have the same familiar Office interface, so you can work on documents easily over the Web. In addition, you can quickly and easily save your documents to the Web directly from Office 2010 on your computer.

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