Microsoft Office 2010 Release Candidate Available for Download to Connect Users

Recently we had reported about Office 2010 reached to RTM stage and should be available to Microsoft partners on or after 15^th February. Until today Office 2010 Beta was only available for Microsoft connect and MSDN users for testing purpose also Microsoft has made available Office 2010 for public download.

From today Microsoft has started sending invitation for Office 2010 Release Candidate. The build number of Office 2010 RC is 14.0.4734.1000 which similar to what Wzor has reported as Office 2010 RTM Escrow build.

Along with Office 2010 Professional Plus RC invitation connect users also getting invitations to test Office 2010 Server with retail product keys.

As usual there is no upgrade path from previous versions of Office or the Office 2010 Beta build to the Release Candidate of Office 2010. You must uninstall all previous versions (including Office 2007 and the Office 2010 Beta build) before beginning the installation of Office 2010 Release Candidate client and server products.

There is no news whether Microsoft will make Office 2010 Release Candidate for public download or not but if you look at Windows 7 RC example we might see Office 2010 RC public preview soon.

It’s matter of time for Office 2010 RC to leak on torrents, so any guess how long will it take to leak??