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I was having lunch with a guy from another firm, and he said that his company has office 2010 for all employees. could it be that some companies have a pre-primer release or was this guy just pulling my leg ?

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If he was serious, that would be problematic, especially for a large(ish) company. They're running beta software that's not going to be released till July, they have minimal support and will be forced to reinstall everything when Office 2010 actually does come out. – alex Jan 7 '10 at 9:31
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He is probably pulling your leg. I dont know why he should want to boast such a thing, but if it is true it would be a huge disadvantage to the business.

Apart from the fact the it still in beta which means they will probably have to re-install it again when it comes out for real, meaning wasted time. It would mean any and all documents they produce would be incompatble with Office 2007/2003 which most other businesses use. I can see this being a problem, and therefore cannot see any good reason why they would have seen fit to 'upgrade' to a beta program.

Most businesses were skeptical about even upgrading to Office 2007 when it came out. When it was in beta, businesses wouldnt have even considered it because it was still being developed.

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Office 2010 Word Files open fine in Office 2007 at least, and the re-installation can be handled through group policies, but yeah, it is certainly risky to run beta software in the entire company. – Michael Stum Jan 7 '10 at 10:23
Oh, I assumed that 2007 couldnt open 2010 files as when I opened a 2007 word document in 2010 it said it was in compatability mode. Leading me to think 2010 files wouldnt be compatible with 2007 without a compatibility update from Microsoft like they did with 2003. And as 2010 isnt out yet, the compatibility update for 2007 woundnt be out yet and so 2007 wouldnt be able to open 2010 files. – Connor W Jan 7 '10 at 10:59
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The company I work for is only, just now, starting a very slow, measured, careful upgrade to 2007. I can't imagine any company that would jump on deploying an early beta of 2010. – BBlake Jan 7 '10 at 12:53
We're still on Office 2003, IE6 and Windows XP. We have no plans to upgrade any of them. Upgrades, even free ones, cost a lot of money (ironically). – alex Jan 8 '10 at 13:01
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There's a beta out - maybe they are using that.

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The beta has been available for at least a couple of month: http://officebeta.microsoft.com/en-us/?CTT=97 I doesn't care that much though, being a loyal OpenOffice user ... http://www.openoffice.org/

A company using beta software isn't something unexpected. On the opposite nothing replace a real life deployment to pinpoint bugs and issues. There are commonly specific support agreement in that case.

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