PDC Announcement: Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is Available For Download

Today at PDC the general availability of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta was announced. You can download the beta from https://www.microsoft.com/2010 to get up and running. Be sure to read the Office 2010 Engineering blog announcing this for more details. For Office developers, you have a newly revamped Office Developer Center on MSDN that is your portal to download links, white papers, video how tos and much more. And more content will be forthcoming as Office moves toward shipping, so be sure to visit often.

 

If you haven’t seen this yet, be sure to checkout this C9 video of John Durant talking about newly announced SharePoint features.

 

So now, get yourself setup for Office development. Install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and get ready for the soon-to-be-available hands on labs on Channel 9. If you need any tips on setting up VS 2010 Beta 2, see Brian Keller’s blog.

Some developers may want to install VS 2010 and the Office Beta on a separate VM. You can download a 180-day Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) free trial VHD for Hyper-V from here, https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9040a4be-c3cf-44a5-9052-a70314452305&displaylang=en. Be sure to review the System Requirements on the download page before making the time commitment to download the file(s).

Enjoy!