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| Pirated Office 2010 Copies Spreads Online |
| First it was the unfinished Windows 7, now it's the unfinished Office 2010. Microsoft's biggest enemy isn't Apple, it's rampant online piracy. As of this writing, pirated copies labeled as the "Technical Preview" of MS Office 2010 have spread online, popping up in searches of the most popular file-sharing sites. Office 2010 joined the in-progress Windows 7 on BitTorrent last weekend. Searches on sites like Pirate Bay and Mininova.org yielded leaked pirated copies of both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the program suite. Comments on the sites confirmed that the posted versions are labeled as "Technical Preview", declared that they worked, but pointed out that they were buggy and unstable. On 7:00 AM ET Monday, the suite's 32-bit, 1.3 gigabyte version became the most popular torrent on Mininova, with 5,800 copies of the file downloaded from Saturday to Sunday. The torrent featured more than 1,100 total "seeders" or computers serving as hosts to others by freely uploading the complete copy of the torrent file, and 16,000 "leechers" or computers that are currently downloading a fragmented version of the file. Last week, Microsoft released a statement announcing its invitation-only testing of the program in July. The Technical Preview was supposed to be seeded to hundreds of thousands of users picked from a pool of names on a waiting list. At an unspecified later date, the software giant intends to open testing of the application suite to the general public. Office 2010 will be the first iteration of MS Office presented in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Microsoft also confirmed that it is compatible to all three of the latest Windows operating systems—Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. A look at Microsoft's registration page last week reveals that Office 2010 Technical Preview will contain initial copies of Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010, Excel 2010, Publisher 2010, InfoPath 2010, Access 2010, OneNote 2010, and Communicator 2010. Incidentally, Communicator 2010 was deleted from the list later on, with a spokeswoman only stating that Communicator 2010 was supposed to be a client for Microsoft's Communications Server. At this day and age, the pirating of Office 2010 comes as no shock even to the most inexperienced of computer users. Leaked copies of other Microsoft applications, particularly Windows 7, has appeared regularly in the file-sharing sites throughout this year. |
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