Seeing that the remaining Office 2010 editions are superseding each other, they contain all the components of the previous suite, plus a few more. Office Home and Student 2010, for example, brings to the table Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010, and costs $149.95. The differences between SKUs are marked by the amount of components they contain. The editions that are offered for testing include: Office Home and Business 2010, Office Home and Student 2010 and Office Professional 2010. There are no less than three trial downloads of just as many Office 2010 SKUs. This means that users can now purchase Office 2010 RTM via retail outlets both online and “offline.” At the same time, customers can download free copies of Office 2010 RTM from the software giant, and test-drive the productivity suite ahead of deciding to actually buy the product. Today, June 15th, 2010 marks the General Availability (GA) deadline for the latest iteration of the Redmond company’s productivity suite. 1000) is now available for download straight from Microsoft.
