Late last week, a beta tester pointed out that Microsoft was planning to release its Office 2010 suite in June 2010, according to Fudzilla. Previously Redmond had only been quoted as saying "the first half of 2010" but more recently the company apparently posted the following message on one of the Office 2010 beta webpages: "The final version will be available to the public for purchase in June 2010." We browsed various Microsoft Office webpages, and even did a search, but we couldn't find the quote, so we contacted Microsoft directly.

"We expect Office 2010 and related products to be generally available in June 2010," a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed with Ars. The software giant wouldn't get more specific than that, but that's how it always is with Microsoft: give a release year or a six month period, narrow it down to a month, and then unleash everything on a specific day, assuming no major delays.

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