Microsoft Releases Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010 to Technet, MSDN
For all you TechNet and MSDN subscribers, Microsoft Office 2010 has been available for download as of April 22, 2010. In addition, SharePoint 2010 and the Office Web Apps 2010 package (which requires a SharePoint Server) have also been made available. There are two downloads are each site: 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of the Professional Plus Retail edition.
Subscribers to each service get a single product key for the Microsoft Office 2010 download. If past history holds true, this key can be used to activate two copies: one on a desktop PC and the other on a portable PC that is used by the same person as the desktop PC.
Anyone considering a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or Office 2010 deployment should be testing both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions to see which would run better on current operating systems to avoid potential compatibility headache issues caused by add-ins that aren’t 64-bit aware.
Here are some download details:
>>Office 2010 (x64 edition):
File Name: en_office_professional_plus_2010_x64_515489.exe
Date Published (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:45:06 AM
Last Updated (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:53:14 AM
SHA1: 7C2F2D5F8C273724EEC70A9EFA2DDD800FE3265F
ISO/CRC: BFE0338C
>>Office 2010 (x86 edition):
File Name: en_office_professional_plus_2010_x86_515486.exe
Date Published (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:45:06 AM
Last Updated (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:53:18 AM
SHA1: 0E1840BF1AA81077692AF651BEFB75648CD9FAA7
ISO/CRC: 986EB4A1
>>SharePoint Server 2010
In addition to the Office products, Microsoft also released SharePoint Server 2010, which is available in a 64-bit (x64) version only.
File Name: en_sharepoint_server_2010_x64_dvd_518634.iso
Date Published (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:49:57 AM
Last Updated (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:57:09 AM
SHA1: 7E8BEF7942D8393FCAB06736C1ADA19290829185
ISO/CRC: F5E36AF4
>>Office Web Apps 2010
File Name: en_web_apps_2010_x64_dvd_515376.iso
Date Published (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:50:31 AM
Last Updated (UTC): 4/22/2010 8:56:29 AM
SHA1: 155332421542C0A2A66F35251FDAA46550B6FA37
ISO/CRC: 506E1DD9
>>SharePoint Foundation 2010
This free add-on for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is the successor to Windows SharePoint Services. The download is publicly available here.
Enjoy experimenting with these latest releases.
[Photo courtesy of muywindows.]
