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Office 2010 Beta 2 download leaks to torrent trackers

Everything is cyclical, though, so I wasn't totally surprised to find reports of the updated Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2010 making a public appearance on one of the more popular torrent sites.
The torrent is labeled as build 14.0.4514.1009, which matches up with what some testers have already received directly from Redmond. It certainly looks like the real deal, though nothing is certain when you download from anyone other than the original source. NeoWin is also reporting that while a product key is required, technical preview keys seems to be working just fine.
The public beta is due to arrive sometime next week, though at this point it looks as though Microsoft will probably have no shortage of "unofficial testers" to gather send-a-smile data from.
[via NeoWin]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Drew Green said 10:44AM on 11-13-2009
It's leaked only 1 week before the official release? What took so long?
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der_tuxman said 11:11AM on 11-13-2009
BitTorrent already *yawn* has it... days after emule... respect... *yawn* who cares? (And who wants to use that ribbon shit?)
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Bolivar Baez said 1:10PM on 11-13-2009
I DO!
der_tuxman said 1:13PM on 11-13-2009
Your fault then.
kojo87 said 5:01PM on 11-13-2009
why doesn't Download Squad fade you away like Joystiq or Engadget?
der_tuxman said 5:04PM on 11-13-2009
So many ribbon lovers here, but no-one who sticks by it? Geez.
der_tuxman said 5:06PM on 11-13-2009
.. at least this tells me something about you. So many minus voters but no-one who actually wants to say smth about that. LOL.
Omega said 1:12AM on 11-14-2009
I must say, this really tempts me, Office 2010 looks pretty nice. Issue being I wasn't in the technical preview. Though, theres a probably a keygen by now...
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