Office 2010 Beta 2 leaks onto BitTorrent

David Flynn
14 November 2009, 3:00 PM


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Microsoft will release the public beta of its next-gen Office suite on Wednesday but it’s already landed on popular BitTorrent file sharing sites.


Well that didn’t take very long, did it?

Copies of Office 2010 Beta 2 have already hit BitTorrent, five days ahead of the suite’s planned debut at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles.



In keeping with the public preview of Windows 7 the Office 2010 Beta 2 builds require a product activation key, but several of these have also been included with the BitTorrent downloads or detailed in the comment field of selected BitTorrent seeds.

On offer are both the 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) editions of Office 2010 Professional Beta 2 which includes the 2010 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access, along with the Office Web Apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.


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Tony23 (New user):

Hope this demonstrates a willingness for Microsoft to continue to use its user base to signficantly test their products before they go to market, Vista suffered becuase users were testing the software after it went retail.

14 November 2009, 3:28 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Sp33d d3mon (New user):

wooow. yawn. a new office program.
it should be free, becuase OOO's pretty good now...

14 November 2009, 3:40 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Tin (User):

I agree - and for online stuff, Google Docs...

I will add that I know OO.o is not quite as good at some tasks as MS Office though... But for most users (especially home users), this is not a big deal.

14 November 2009, 4:05 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Raindog (New user):

Quoting Tin:
I will add that I know OO.o is not quite as good at some tasks as MS Office though

And at other tasks its even better, OO is for example more compatible with more Office mersions than Office 2007 is.

Sadly by following the MS model closely OO has managed to pick up many of Office's lesser traits, mainly bloat and an overblown and unintuitive, badly structured list of seldom used options.

None of the menus or ribbons or whatever have managed to offer a simple menu layout for the casual user with an easy to locate suite of power user funtions leading from those menus.

Innovation where?


14 November 2009, 11:30 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

apt.pupil (New user):

why the backlash at the ribbon?

i actually find it handy.
being a MSOffice user since 98, i will admit i had about 1 week of blood, sweat, and tears- reloctaing where everythig is., but at least i no longer have to customise, rearrange, and hide toolbars to get my office the way i like to use it

15 November 2009, 4:56 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Tin (User):

Quoting apt.pupil:
why the backlash at the ribbon?


Look at it from the view of someone supporting hundreds of users in a business. Every one of those users has to re-learn, which is a big added cost.
I'm about to roll out 2007 in a school, and even now I'm still hesitant to do it. I know some of the staff and students will have used the "new" interface, but many have not, especially the older staff.

15 November 2009, 6:02 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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