Enterprises with Microsoft volume licensing and Software Assurance can get desktop and web versions of Office 2010 on 27 April prior to the official launch on 12 May.
The Office 2010 code has been released to manufacturing (RTM), along with Project 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Visio 2010 code.
Customers on Microsoft's volume licences (250+ desktops), and with Software Assurance can download the applications from Microsoft's Volume Licensing Service Centre on 27 April.
The announcement on Microsoft's Office 2010 Engineering blog also says that enterprises that don't have Software Assurance can download the software on 1 May.
"Microsoft business division president Stephen Elop will officially launch Office 2010 to our business customers on 12 May," said Microsoft's Office corporate vice president Takeshi Numoto.
Microsoft's new cloud-based version of its market-leading productivity suite – Office 2010 Web Apps – will go head-to-head with the Google Apps package.
But Web Apps users will be able to run Office 2010 applications locally should network connectivity become unavailable.
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