Office 2010 Scheduled for June Release

To be honest, how much work is left on Office 2010? The beta's are rather stable, but is there just refining of the UI left, or is this time to complete the online element, or....?

clindhatsen is right, the beta seems pretty well done sort of like Windows 7 beta at this stage. 64 bit is fast and well worth the upgrade. Outlook is actually snappy to load and run, that's a first.

I've been running it under a virtual OS, and so far it seems to work just fine. I'll give a little longer, then will probably use it full time on my regular OS.

So.... When can I expect this on my MAPS download site?

Hmm....I like the features of Publisher and Outlook. Both are used almost daily here. Word is sometimes used for single-page layouts of marketing materials. Excel gets a bit of use. I use Visio for IT deployment maps as well, although I miss the AD integration that used to be in previous versions. Understandably, Visio couldn't contain the functionality needed for Server 2008-native AD though. It's good to see the Ribbon/Fluent UI applied to those few applications that didn't have it in 2007 - especially Publisher, which has a huge amount of functionality, but suffers from inaccessibility of features due to the archaic menuing system. It'll take some time to learn the new UI for this, but I doubt it'll be that difficult. Workers here have figured out the differences in Word and Excel fairly quickly, and they enjoy using the new versions much moreso than 2003.

No support for 64-bit XP even though it came out in 2005 (Vista in 2006), no ISO standard Open XML for 2007 users and no ribbon customization for 2007 users. Talk about a point release!