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      Microsoft has made the much awaited Office 2010 Beta available to Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet Plus subscribers. The annual Professional Developers Conference event for this year starts on Tuesday at Los Angeles and will continue till November 19. Following this event, Microsoft is expected to release the public beta of Office 2010 suite.

      MSDN and TechNet Plus Subscribers can download the x64 (64-bit) or x86 (32-bit) versions of Office 2010 Beta from the Microsoft website. The company's PR team did tweet about some exciting news to share at PDC. Now that the Beta downloads will go live, it's obvious that Microsoft will announce the public beta of the productivity suite.

      This new Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta is the second beta build that succeeds the first Beta build and Technical Preview meant for select testers only. This new Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta build version 14.0.4536.1000 features new installation procedure, Upload Center, modified version of Backstage view and refreshed icons of all Office applications.

      Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 beta build 64-bit version weighs 749.87MB, while the 32-bit version weighs 684.48MB. Lucky MSDN and TechNet subscribers can grab the respective beta copies with official product keys before Microsoft announces Office 2010 public beta on November 18.

      MSDN subscribers can head here and TechNet subscribers can go here to download their Office 2010 beta builds.

      This beta build was already leaked with different version numbers on the Torrent sites. Since Microsoft will make the Office 2010 beta publicly available in a day or two, there is no sense downloading the builds from Torrents to join the "me first" clan.