Download Microsoft Word 2010
Microsoft Word 2010 hasn’t even been released to the public yet but there are still places where you can download Word 2010. The technical preview of Word 2010, that is. However, the number of people who have received official invitations to download the technical preview is very small and and enthusiastic users who put their names down on the technical preview waiting list face long delays. Consequently, the rest of the population have had to resort to downloading Word 2010 from torrents and other file sharing networks like Rapidshare and Megaupload. When I say Word 2010 download, it’s actually the Office 2010 download. You can’t download Word 2010 on its own.
As the Rapidshare offering isn’t the official release, Microsoft are requesting that people don’t download it for security reasons. Downloads from such file sharing networks are often infected with viruses and trojans. Microsoft are also clamping down on the people who upload links for sharing. To see evidence of this, you only need to search Google for “Word 2010 rapidshare“, for example, to discover that most links have become inactive to to copyright infringement.
So at this point in time, options for downloading Word 2010 are limited to:
- spending an inordinate amount of time searching for a Rapidshare/torrent/Megaupload link that works
- spending an inordinate amount of time on the technical preview waiting list
- waiting for 2010 when Word 2010 is officially released to the public
Something tells me that option 3 may be the quickest one!
Update: you can now download the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. As this is not the production version, it’s free. And it’s actually quite good. As this is the download for Office, it comprises all Office products – including Word 2010.
