Office 2010 Beta Leaks Onto Torrent Sites

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7:30 PM - November 13, 2009 by Marcus Yam

Office 2010 beta couldn't even wait an extra week to get out.

An official beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is expected to be released next week at the Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, but someone who has got his or her hands on it early has leaked it out to the internet.

Neowin reports that the leaked build is numbered version 14.0.4514.1009 and is tagged with "beta 2" naming. Installation of the software requires a product key, but those who have tried it say that keys used for the Technical Preview work fine.

Craving Tech received a copy of the beta officially from Microsoft and has posted screenshots and early impressions of the software. Check that out here.

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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nforce4max 11/13/2009 10:58 PM
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cabose369 11/13/2009 11:46 PM
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I wonder if they are still planing on doing the monthly subscription for it or if they canned that idea all together due to strong customer feedback against it.

rooket 11/14/2009 12:00 PM
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I don't use any of the advanced features. Office 97 is sufficient although I do use 2003 and 2007 these days... it is VERY rare for me to use this product at home however. not really too exciting.

tester24 11/14/2009 12:15 PM
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I hope it is as just as good as Office 2007 and better. Love the ribbon style and makes doing everything especialy in word/excel so much easier to get to because I'm not searching menus. Takes a while to get used to but once you do it's hard to go back.

christop 11/14/2009 12:39 PM
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apache_lives 11/14/2009 12:43 PM
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nforce4max when you get the hand of using the 07 or newer style its so much better, and im sure if you got used to it in the first place and then went to the old 03 and older design you would hate it even more.

buwish 11/14/2009 12:58 PM
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I'm a bit curious to see if anything significant has changed with the beta, at least in comparison to the technical preview.

winner4455 11/14/2009 1:20 AM
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Open Office =)

duckmanx88 11/14/2009 3:12 AM
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winner4455 :
Open Office =)



works well for students if all you need is a word processor and power point. anyone know which FREE program to use if you want to edit pdf files?

DjEaZy 11/14/2009 5:54 AM
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... OpenOffice then... costs nothing, works great...

radiowars 11/14/2009 8:42 AM
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Eh, sticking with 2007. I got 6 free 3-pack copies of Office Ultimate 07 for Christmas last year. Still haven't even used all of those lol.

randomizer 11/14/2009 10:09 AM
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apache_lives :
nforce4max when you get the hand of using the 07 or newer style its so much better, and im sure if you got used to it in the first place and then went to the old 03 and older design you would hate it even more.


I can't stand Access 2003. I am tired of toolboxes getting in the way of everything I'm doing, whereas in Office 2007 everything is accessible with one click up top.

manos 11/14/2009 10:14 AM
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Yeah this is beta 2. I have been using the Office 2010 first Beta for a few months now..

brendano257 11/14/2009 1:55 PM
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Maybe they'll screw with the interface for the hell of it again.....please no.

Regulas 11/14/2009 3:42 PM
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cabose369 :
I wonder if they are still planing on doing the monthly subscription for it or if they canned that idea all together due to strong customer feedback against it.


Oh I hope they do, add another nail to their coffin.

Regulas 11/14/2009 3:44 PM
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DjEaZy :
... OpenOffice then... costs nothing, works great...


I agree and the MS fanboys are hitting your rating, dumb asses is what they are.

Regulas 11/14/2009 3:51 PM
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The whole need MS Office for college thing is a scam, MS has the give me all your cash colleges and universities in it's back pocket. Open Office can read and write to the proprietary piece of crap known as Open Office .doc if it has to.
I prefer the ISO .odf format any day.

Regulas 11/14/2009 3:54 PM
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Correction MS Office is the proprietary format with their new xml and older .doc crap.

Thge ISO standard is .odf (Open Document Format) wake MS Fanboys. But you are probably the ones who will embrace Socialism and Marxism in the US going on right now by the hacks in DC like the idiots in Germany in the 30s.

wildwell 11/15/2009 12:23 PM
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Of course it leaked to the torrent sites, how else will we decide to buy it? ;)

Anonymous 11/15/2009 1:53 AM
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im using open office most of the time these day..

tester24 11/15/2009 3:58 AM
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Regulas :
Correction MS Office is the proprietary format with their new xml and older .doc crap.Thge ISO standard is .odf (Open Document Format) wake MS Fanboys. But you are probably the ones who will embrace Socialism and Marxism in the US going on right now by the hacks in DC like the idiots in Germany in the 30s.



Yeah sure open office is nice in a pinch (it is great because it fits on my U3 drive) but it can never replace what I do with MS office. Plus being enrolled in a technology program I get all the MSDNAA material I want, my OSs and Office stuff free. So from my standpoint I don't care.

robertking82881 11/15/2009 5:11 AM
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this is old news ive been useing it for a wile few 2 mouths now lol im gonna bye it if they dont do mouthy thing if they do will they want get any thing from me

robertking82881 11/15/2009 5:12 AM
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robertking82881 :
this is old news ive been useing it for a wile few 2 mouths now lol im gonna buy it if they dont do mouthy thing if they do will they want get any thing from me


megamanx00 11/15/2009 6:48 AM
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It's f****ing office? What's so exciting about it that you'd pirate it unless you're a secretary or just really really really like power point presentations? The last version I bought was office 2000.

Open Office FTW!

cruiseoveride 11/15/2009 6:52 AM
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OpenOffice has come a long way. Its actually usable now.

NoCaDrummer 11/15/2009 8:13 PM
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[citation]Open Office =)works well for students if all you need is a word processor and power point. anyone know which FREE program to use if you want to edit pdf files? [/citation]
OpenOffice has a plug-in specifically for PDFs. It's not perfect, but for many instances, it works well enough to do small corrections. If you create the original in OpenOffice, you can export it as a PDF with a single click.
OpenOffice also has import filters for Office 2007 which seem to work very well - far better than MS Office 2007's filters for importing ODFs. Considering that the ODF format is better documented and is truly OPEN (vs. Microsoft's proprietary "extensions") it's kind of surprising.

micky_lund 11/15/2009 10:48 PM
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what is open office, and where can i download it? does it run the same as office 07, but without MS's tag?

tmike 11/15/2009 11:01 PM
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I am always amused by the little fanbois saying "i don't need [W7 or Office 2010 or Whatever] cos [XP or Office 97 or Whatever] works just fine for me, and Open Office works even better and is free".

One is reminded of an old man sitting on his front porch in shorts and sandals with black socks, yelling at the neighborhood kids... "Get off my lawn ya heathens... and turn down that racket you call music. That ain't music, it's noise. And OpenOffice is all anybody needs. Shit, i spilled Mt. Dew on my [insert game console name here]. Bah. *cough*. Where's my meth pipe? Did you little bastards take my pipe?. MOM! THOSE DAMN KIDS TOOK MY PIPE! GO GET ME ANOTHER PIPE, BITCH! Linux R00lz!"

randomizer 11/15/2009 11:28 PM
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tmike :
I am always amused by the little fanbois saying "i don't need [W7 or Office 2010 or Whatever] cos [XP or Office 97 or Whatever] works just fine for me, and Open Office works even better and is free".


You don't understand the term fanboy do you? By your logic, anyone who prefers Win 7 or Office 2010 is a fanboy. Fanboyism != preferences.

doc70 11/15/2009 11:51 PM
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micky_lund :
what is open office, and where can i download it? does it run the same as office 07, but without MS's tag?


Just do a quick search for OpenOffice and you'll find it in the first three results...
It's not the same as MS Office, but it works for a lot of people and it's getting better with every release. I'm using it, but again, I am not a heavy office software user and I could not tell you if it will work for you or not; just give it a try, though, keep an open mind.

That being said, the interest aroused by this leaked beta is telling enough of a story about how many people out there is finding this MS program good and useful. I guess it's another point scored by MS, besides Win7.

edilee 11/15/2009 11:59 PM
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Reading these responses has amused me. It's almost like saying Firefox is a better faster browser when it is not but so many are convincing themselves it is because it is not made by MS.


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