Office 2007 buyers get free upgrade to Office 2010

Starting last Friday (3/5/10), anyone who buys Office 2007 will get a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it’s released. Details: http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/tech-guarantee/


It looks like they are changing around the contents of the suites a little bit, so they’re giving some fairly generous Office 2007-to-2010 version upgrades in the process. They’re basically giving Office Basic 2007 buyers a free upgrade to Office Home and Business 2010 (adds OneNote and PowerPoint), and they’re giving Office Small Biz 2007 buyers a free upgrade to Office Pro 2010 (adds MS Access).


Here is the table describing which 2010 version canbe upgraded from which 2010 license:


OFFICE 2007 PRODUCT ----- OFFICE 2010 UPGRADE PRODUCT
Office Ultimate 2007 ----- Office Professional 2010
Office Professional 2007 ----- Office Professional 2010
Office Small Business 2007 ----- Office Professional 2010
Office Standard 2007 ----- Office Home and Business 2010
Office Home and Student 2007 ----- Office Home and Student 2010
Office Basic 2007 ----- Office Home and Business 2010


And, if anyone's curious to see how Office 2010 looks, you can become part of the Beta program for it, for free. Remember this program is in Beta (testing!), so please don't download this program for use in a production environment.