
1009 was leaked and offered for download from various illegal third-party sources, but especially BitTorrent trackers. The past week, a new development milestone of Office 2010 made it out of Redmond and into the wild. Microsoft did not reveal the specific availability deadline for Office 2010 Beta, and as such, testers and early adopters will have to exercise patience a little longer.

Come November 2009, the general public will get the chance to download, install and test drive Office 2010 Beta for free, the software giant confirmed. The Redmond company confirmed officially, at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, that it would start offering public downloads of Office 2010 Beta as early as next month.

Microsoft is gearing up toward the release of the first public testing Build of the next iteration of the Office System.
