Microsoft Office 2010 beta leaked to BitTorrent trackers
Microsoft's response to the news was restrained. The official beta release comes next week.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta build 14.0.4514.1009 has leaked onto torrent trackers, and while it requires keys to function, it accepts keys from the previous Technical Preview version, so folks who have already been testing it but who want to upgrade to the beta build with all its improvements before the official launch next week can do some law-breaking to get their hands on it.
When asked about this leak, Microsoft just said, "We recommend that people do not download code from unauthorized sources." Now there's some restraint. But if it's just a beta version then we suppose there's no financial harm done with this particular breakout of piracy.
That's not an endorsement, mind you. Ahem!
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Anonymous (10:57 AM on Tue Nov 17, 2009)
Nothing beneficial for most businesses - no reason to upgrade/purchase -
Like Vista - all bling - no function.
If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have -
1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers.
2. Full OLE support for pictures in access - umm wasn't that functional with Office XP - why take that out? Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database? Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code. Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution?
3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don't want to learn the new menu bar. You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar. Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I'm one person and most of my clients don't like it so prefer to stick with office 2003. MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.