Office 2010 Pricing and Requirements

Office 2010 is expected to be released by June of this year.  From everything I am reading and seeing, I believe that the June date is accurate and that it may even ship sooner.  The product looks pretty good as it is right now.

There will be 4 versions of Office 2010

Home and Student	$149.00
Home and Business	$279.00
Professional	$499.00
Professional Academic	$99.00

These are retail prices.  There will be upgrade pricing and of course quantity discounts.   And lower, OEM pricing when Office is purchased with a new computer.

For most of our Clients, either the Home and Business or the Professional version will be what you would purchase.  Home and Business includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.  The Professional version includes all that plus Publisher and Access.

The requirements for Office 2010 are pretty much the same as for Office 2007.  The processor needs to be at least 500Mhz, memory needs to be at least 256M and available disk must be at least 2.5G.  Of course, these are not what we would suggest by any means!  Our minimum configuration is 1.5GHz processor, 2G memory and 5G available disk space.

Office 2010 will be available in both 32 and 64 bit versions.  The 32 bit version will run on Windows versions back to XP SP3.  While the 64 bit version requires at least Windows Vista SP1.

Office 2010 is a very nice product.  There are a lot of enhancements and I believe it is easier to use than previous versions.  I will be posting info on each of the Office 2010 modules here over the next couple of months.