Office 2010 can now be downloaded from MSDN/Technet

Office 2010 became ready just a while ago, and now the product is available to be downloaded from MSDN and Technet. For example on MSDN, depending on your subscription level, you might be able to download for instance the Professional Plus version of Office 2010.

Note that for the first time, there is also a 64-bit edition available of Office. This gives for example Excel additional breathing space in case you need to run multi-gigabyte worksheets. For most people however, the 32-bit edition will be more than enough, and so Microsoft actually recommends that all users install the 32-bit edition, even though they had a 64-bit operating system installation. The wording on MSDN is quite strict on this fact:

"Important: Microsoft strongly recommends the use of 32-bit (x86) versions of Office 2010, Project 2010, and Visio 2010 applications as the default option for all platforms."

Happy downloading!