{"id":662,"date":"2009-11-16T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=662"},"modified":"2009-11-16T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:21:04","slug":"office-2010-beta-now-available-to-msdn-technet-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2009\/11\/office-2010-beta-now-available-to-msdn-technet-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2010 Beta Now Available to MSDN \/ TechNet Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"220\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>While I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about enterprise technology (such as server virtualization), like most techies, I do it using Microsoft Office.&#160; I\u2019m a big fan of Microsoft Office 2007, and I\u2019m always eager to try new beta version of the product suite.&#160; Thanks to the MSDN Subscriber Download\u2019s RSS feed, I found out that the official first beta of Office 2010 is now available for download.&#160; If you have a subscription, you can access the downloads from the following sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/securedownloads\/default.aspx?pv=1:383\">MSDN Subscriber Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/securedownloads\/default.aspx\">Microsoft TechNet Subscriber Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just search for \u201cOffice 2010\u201d, and you should see the relevant downloads.&#160; Be sure to generate keys for activation of the beta, as well.&#160; I\u2019m not sure about the exact plans for making the downloads available publicly, but Microsoft will hopefully make the beta easily accessible to a wide range of potential testers later this week.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on what\u2019s new, see the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/2010\/\">Microsoft Office 2010 product site<\/a>.&#160; As far as at the client applications themselves, the changes seem to be largely incremental (all apps now have the Ribbon UI).&#160; I\u2019m pondering upgrading my primary computer to the newest beta and will likely post some more details here if I do.&#160; Particularly, I\u2019ll focus on backwards-compatibility and file format upgrade issues (such as upgrading my Outlook PST files to work with Outlook 2010).&#160; Happy downloading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about enterprise technology (such as server virtualization), like most techies, I do it using Microsoft Office.&#160; I\u2019m a big fan of Microsoft Office 2007, and I\u2019m always eager to try new beta version of the product suite.&#160; Thanks to the MSDN Subscriber Download\u2019s RSS feed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-general","category-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}