On May 12, Office 2010 will be officially 'born'.

Microsoft has just announced that it will officially launch Office 2010 office applications for businesses at an event that will take place on May 12 .

However, the company did not say when, businesses can purchase licenses for this product. Specifically, business customers can download new Microsoft software a few weeks or even months before the program is sold to consumers. For example, when Microsoft launched Office 2007, business customers had this product for more than two months before they were offered to consumers.

Thus, Office 2010 will be retailed at a time in June but Microsoft has not disclosed the exact time. Earlier last week, Microsoft's CFO confirmed that the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program will be released this month. Last month, detailed information about the free Office 2010 upgrade program was leaked online when a Microsoft tech expert posted summary information about them on its partner website.

Moreover, Microsoft also revealed a free upgrade program to corresponding Office 2010 versions for customers who purchased Office 2007 from March 5 to September 30, 2010. Accordingly, buyers of Office Home and Student 2007 will receive a free copy of Office Home and Student 2010. Meanwhile, those who buy Office Standard 2007 and Office Basic 2007 will be upgraded to Office Home and Business. 2010 for free. Those who bought Office Small Business 2007, Office Professional 2007 or Office Ultimate 2007 will be upgraded for free to Office Professional 2010 version.

Office 2010 will be Microsoft's first product line to be upgraded to the least expensive version. Instead of Microsoft selling activation keys via its online store and retailing to users (these people want to upgrade from older versions or from the most basic Office Starter 2010 version), they will be installed. Booking on new computers. However, users will be limited to 25 times per user upgrade.