office 2010 news

Despite the fact that the very first Pre-Release of Microsoft’s Office 2010 was made available to only a handful of selected testers, it has already made it’s way to Internet’s download sites.

Office2010News.com team browsed through some larger torrent sites and found many working versions of what wasn’t supposed to be available to any of us before mid-July. There are both English and Russian versions publicly downloadable, as well as the 64-bit version of the software. The packages vary between 1.31GB and 3.43GB.

So far, the only comment from Microsoft themselves has been through their Technet Blog:

I wanted to post quickly to acknowledge the information that you have seen today around bits of Office 2010 being leaked.  While all of us here are happy to see the incredible excitement and engagement (and are absolutely chomping at the bit to reach the July milestone) we aren’t quite ready to release the technical preview bits.  I would encourage all of you to wait until the official bits are available to ensure the best possible experience and not miss out on anything we may include.

As a heads up, because we want to ensure our customers are safe, we have been monitoring various torrents and already detected quite a few that were infected. As a reminder,  the Win 7 leak was used as a vector for attack and it’s not surprising to see this being used the same way.  So, please be aware that if you download this torrent there is a very good chance you are also getting some unexpected malware with it.

We’ll keep you posted on any updates!