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LOS ANGELES
— If you want to try out
Microsoft Office
2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the
company announced at the
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
.
It also
said Office Web Apps,
Microsoft's
online competitor to
Google's
Google Docs, will be available for anyone who downloads
the 2010 beta.
Office
Mobile 2010 is also available in beta, which you can get
by going to the Marketplace for Mobile if you have a
Windows phone.
An
interesting new feature for Office is a Social Connector
to Outlook that can pull in status updates from social
networks. LinkedIn was the partner announced Wednesday
at PDC. It will connect early next year. No word on
Facebook
or Twitter.
Also, for
IT administrators, betas are available for Sharepoint
Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010. Office Web Apps
on-premise is also available to beta test if a company
wants to install it on its own servers.
The final
version is supposed to be available in, not
surprisingly, 2010.
"People
may have historically thought of Office as a desktop or
PC thing," said
Takeshi Numoto
, corporate vice president of marketing for Office.
"With 2010, we are really focused on giving that
productivity experience across the PC and browser."
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