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Office 2010 build 14.0.4302.1000 has leaked into the wild, so it looks like there’s more happening today than just build 7600 of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Office 2010 will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit (possibly on one DVD); both flavors have been leaked.
In January, screenshots of an alpha build of Office 2010 (then still codenamed Office 14) leaked out. In May, a Technical Preview build (14.0.4006.1010) leaked out in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
Office 2010 includes Access 2010, Excel 2010, InfoPath 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Project 2010, Publisher 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, Visio 2010, and Word 2010.
Here are a few screenshots of this most recently leaked build we have taken for our loyal readers:
Notice how “Microsoft Office for Sales” is present this time around; it wasn’t there in the last leaked build.
Unlike the previous leak, which was for the Professional Plus SKU (though additional programs were included alongside it), this appears to be the Ultimate SKU. That’s what the word “Mondo” signifies, so whatever “Microsoft Office Limestone Test Application” is, it will only be available in that SKU (assuming that this is a costumer-facing app and not an internal testing program). This is particularly curious because a source tells us that Microsoft is killing off the Ultimate SKU.
It looks like Microsoft InfoPath Editor 2010 has been renamed to Microsoft Office InfoPath Filler 2010. There are also Microsoft Office 2010 Developer Resources (why Visio 2007 and not Visio 2010?), which were not in the previous leaked build.
The older build (14.0.4006.1010) is on top and the newer one (14.0.4302.1000) is at the bottom. The only real change is a very curious one: the Office logo for the “File menu” has been replaced with “File `F”, a glaring bug. The difference in window title bar color is simply due to the older build being installed on Windows Vista and the newer build being installed on Windows 7.
When actually clicking on the menu, the biggest change is the fact that you have access to all the other tabs, a small but positive improvement. In the New submenu, it’s obvious that some icons have been updated (like Blank Document, Recent Templates, and Sample Templates).
This build appears to be newer, but buggier, than the one leaked two months ago. We’re told that Microsoft will actually be demoing an older build tomorrow at the kickoff of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which is taking place in New Orleans. Testers in the beta should get the older Technical Preview build then, or at least before the end of the month. It’s not the first time that Microsoft has decided to give out an older build to testers even though a newer one has already leaked; this also happened most recently with the Microsoft Security Essentials beta.
Of course, we recommend using an official build over a leaked one. If you don’t get into the Technical Preview, don’t worry; the public preview of Office 2010 is slated to arrive “this coming summer.”
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