Free Trial Beta Version of Office 2010

Gary North

March 20, 2010

Microsoft is offering a free trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. It will cease working in October. "The first three are free, kid. Try them. You'll like them."

If you want to try out any of the new programs, now is the time. Is the new PowerPoint even more capable of producing excruciatingly boring presentations in less time? Probably. But for those people who follow the 10-20-30 rule, it will be superior. The rule is: 10-slides, 20-minute presentation, 30-point type.

OneNote lets you organize your notes better. Retrieve in a year what you will forget in a week. You know your memory is fading. Take steps now to compensate.

Then there is Word. It isn't as good as WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, but it may be better than your existing version of Word.

You can download it here:

http://bit.ly/MObeta

You can get OpenOffice for free, but it does not have OneNote. Also, PowerPoint has a major advantage over the presentation graphics program in OpenOffice. It allows you to buy and download a $50 version of Camtasia Studio for making screencasts of your presentations. You don't pay $300.

Open Office is not widely used by businesses. If you are looking to master the most universally used piece of software in the job marketplace, master Microsoft Office.

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