All About Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview, Screenshots Inside

Just finished installing "Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview". Its available on Microsoft Connect so if you applied for it, check your Inbox or Connect account and it should be available for download.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. The available version's build number is 4006.1110

File size of 32-bit version is 535.87 MB and 64-bit version is 598.58 MB.

Following applications are included in this Technical Preview:

Microsoft Office Professional 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access)
Microsoft InfoPath 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (formerly Microsoft Office Groove)
Microsoft Visio 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 is quite similar to Office 2007 in first look but there are many advanced features and changes which we'll discuss in this topic.

System Requirements:

CPU: 500 MHz processor or higher

RAM: 256 MB or higher

HDD: 2 GB

OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Server 2003 R2 SP2, Server 2008 SP1, Windows 7

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Setup:

First we'll talk about the Setup. Its almost same as Office 2007 setup. Once you run the setup, it asks for the Product key:

After that you need to accept the EULA:

Then it asks whether you want to upgrade existing Office version or want to customize the installation option:

We selected "Customize" option and it showed following options to choose from:

That's all. The setup started installing Office 2010:

It took a few minutes and the final screen was shown as following:

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Screenshots:

Once you launch any Office 2010 application, it shows an awesome animated splash screen containing minimize and close buttons at top along with Cancel button at bottom:

All Office applications now contain more glass in the header. So if you have Aero enabled in Windows Vista or 7, you can enjoy the extended glass in the ribbon interface.

Also the toolbar buttons no longer contain any border which makes the interface more simple and clean.

Following are screenshots of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook 2010 in action (Click on the images for bigger screenshots):

Microsoft Word 2010:

Microsoft Excel 2010:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010:

Microsoft Access 2010:

Microsoft Outlook 2010:

Microsoft has removed the Office ORB from left top area. Instead they have changed it to a rectangle Office button which shows a totally revamped Task Pane upon clicking (Click on the image for bigger screenshot):

Here you can Save, Open, Close, Create documents.

One more interesting thing is "Send-a-Smile" application which has been included in this Technical Preview to send the feedback. It sits in the system tray and allows you to send your feedback about Office 2010:

Click on the desired smiley and it'll allow you to type your comment:

You can also send your current Desktop screenshot along with your E-mail ID while submitting the feedback.

After using it for a few minutes, we didn't find any issue. The performance is quite impressive. No doubt, Microsoft is working very hard to make its products perfect as we have seen in case of Windows 7 and now its turn of Office 2010. Good going MS...

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26 Comments

The Champ

I got the invitation! but looks like MS have finished it distributing coz when i clicked on the link
;the next window appears & says PAGE NOT FOUND,what the hell is that????
VG

^^ The link should contain Invitation code at last in its URL. Use that code directly in the Invitation box at Connect homepage.
MMG

Minimum system requirement : WRONG?

i installed Office 2010,
my system is 512MB RAM, 2 GHz AMD CPU, and 10 GB Free Disk (after installation)
YET everytime i try to run Word 2010 - it keeps telling me "There is not enough memory or disk space to run Word"

I tried all those things- like removing the normal.dot , disk cleanup , repair office setup etc.
nothing working.

please help, give solution
thanks.
MMG

@ Vishal
in addition to above messege of mine-
the Microsoft outlook 2010 & Publisher 2010 is working nice and smooth on my system.
but its only giving that memory error for Word 2010 & powerpoint and excel.

please please help.
(I'm frustrated because this stupid thing also uninstalled my Office 2007 and i don't have its setup Disk at the moment.)
VG

^^ Sorry mate but I have no idea about it. As its under testing, it might be a bug.
MMG

I fixed my problem (of Word2010 giving error that i've not sufficient memory to run it)

but i had to format and uninstall entire XP for it.

the min system requirements are right - 256MB RAM only
currently its working nice and smooth infact office 2010 is quite lighters and speedier than the Office 2007, I recommend it to everyone

have a great weekend.
Drifta

when does the technical preview expire?
thepiratebay

it never expires, and it doesn't even ask for serial key.
but that depends on where you are downloading it from
drifta

well im getting the version released from ms connect. i got an invition last wk and was considering my options

are u 100% sure it doesnt expire?
VG

^^ It'll expire on November 31st, 2010.