I am very excited to share some great news with you. Earlier today we reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010!
RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone. It is also an appropriate time to re-emphasize our sincere gratitude to the more than 5,000 organizations and partners who have worked with us on rapid deployment and testing of the products. Since the start of our public beta in November 2009, we’ve had more than 7.5 million people download the beta version – that’s more than 3 times the number of 2007 beta downloads! The feedback that we’ve received from all these programs has shaped the set of products we’re excited about, and that I’m sure will delight our customers.
Our Volume License customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be one of the first to receive the 2010 set of products. They will be able to download the products in English via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27. Customers without SA will be able to purchase the new products through Volume Licensing from Microsoft partners starting May 1.
Earlier this year we announced that we will officially launch Office 2010 to our business customers on May 12 with Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division, delivering a keynote as part of our virtual launch. Our virtual launch will allow people from around the globe to participate in our launch by going to http://www.the2010event.com. The virtual launch site will showcase product demos, customer and partner testimonials, and interviews with product managers and executives, and we hope this will give you another great way to explore, learn, and get excited about the 2010 releases.
Office 2010 will first become available in retail stores in June in the US, and customers can pre-order these retail versions of Office 2010 at http://store.microsoft.com/OfficePreorder today to receive Office when it becomes available.
On behalf of the Office team, I want to thank all of the customers and partners who have helped us reach this milestone. We look forward to continue learning from you and all the great things you will do with our products!
-- Takeshi Numoto
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office
Same info in french : go to the Backstage 2010 blog...
I need it!
We got Office Ultimate 2007 in the beginning of this month as we need InfoPath but after purchasing it realized that the tech guarantee would only enable us to upgrade to 2010 Professional. Don't you think Ultimate customers should be eligible to get Professional Plus?
So cool! We are waiting for this day.
BTW, is the final build# 4763?
What improvments were made to MUI packs and proofing tools in Office 2010? Will we finally get all proofing tools features (thesaurus, translation, transliteration) for all Indic languages?
Can't but say bravo to the team.. Been speculating Office 2010's release since late 2008.. Visited backstage often and read many articles.. seems now its time to out it all on the line.. and I'm pretty sure.. Microsoft Office 2010 will spare me any disappointment.. Congrats again <3 !! Keep up team ;)
final build number is 14.0.4763.1000
Great news, cant wait to get my hands on the real thing!
Congrats Office Team! This is really a great milestone! I love to work with Office 2010 RTM.
Will Office 2010 be available through the Ultimate Steal Website? If so what version? Will it have Access?
O14 is super...simply love it...Awesome work folks...
i am expecting the coming day
the day full of excitings
the day office 2010 rtm coming
Still can't password protect an entire notebook section in OneNote... after 7 years. Idiots.
Who needs Microsoft Office when there's OpenOffice.org for free? For the average home user OpenOffice.org is more than enough. Such users really don't need Microsoft Office.