On July thirteen, Microsoft is slated to make out there a restricted technical test develop of its Office 2010 suite to choose testers via the provider;s Connect download site.The new construct just isn't a public beta. A public beta of Workplace 2010 is slated for later on this 12 months, as business officials have mentioned formerly. The promised July check build, which will likely be downloadable beginning today, is of Workplace 2010 Expert — one of the five planned Workplace 2010 SKUs — only.(Is these days;s tech preview develop the same, except for being officialy sanctioned, as the Workplace 2010 create that leaked in May? That May develop was numbered 14.0.4006.1010. Right now;s Office 2010 tech preview develop — based on a new leak — seems to be 14.0.4302.1000. So currently;s develop is newer.)Microsoft also is making on the market to choose testers this week invitation-only tech previews of Visio 2010, Project 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, officials mentioned. The tech preview of the Workplace Net Apps –the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — is slated to be offered to choose testers some time in August, not this week.Microsoft officials are planning to announce the availability of the tech beta at the corporation;s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which kicks off in New Orleans today. The conference is for 5,
microsoft Office 2010 Serial,000 or so of the firm;s reseller partners.All WPC attendees will have access to the invitation-only technical preview program and will receive an e-mail invitation to the program, according to Office officials.Also on July 13, Microsoft officials are unveiling the five planned Office 2010 SKUs the company plans to create readily available in the first half of 2010. The current version of Office, Office 2007, is packaged as eight different SKUs. Microsoft officials mentioned they are reducing the number of SKUs to reduce complexity.Microsoft just isn't sharing Office 2010 pricing yet, officials mentioned.The five Workplace 2010 SKUs will likely be:* Workplace Expert Plus 2010 (obtainable only through volume licensing)
* Office Professional 2010
* Office Home and Business enterprise 2010 (the new SMB SKU)
* Offie Standard 2010 (only on the market through volume licensing)
* Workplace Home and Student 2010All five SKUs will include OneNote, Microsoft;s note-taking application. SharePoint Workspace — the renamed and updated Groove offline/online synchronization app,
Windows 7 Discount, is part of the Expert Plus SKU only. The Ofice Web Applications will be part of the Expert Plus and Workplace Standard SKUs,
Windows 7 Code, but not the other three. However, Microsoft has plans to create the Web-centric Office Net Applications accessible to a broader set of XP, Vista and Workplace 2010 users. (See this post on Office Internet apps for more details.)For more details about what is part of each Office 2010 SKU, check out my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott;s post.Microsoft has scrapped plans for an Workplace for Sales SKU. The Workplace 2010 Enterprise SKU, which was listed in an internal slide presentation earlier this 12 months,
Purchase Office 2010, also has been scrapped, or possibly replaced by another SKU. Microsoft officials wouldn;t say more about either of these SKUs when I asked.