Your choice for getting Office 2010 on release day.
The one important point, somewhat buried, in Microsoft’s launch of Office 2010 was the retail sale date.
Office 2010 will be available for retail sale from 15 June 2010 .
Amazon USA is offering to deliver on that day (‘release day’) with a pre-order price guarantee to charge the lowest price as the price decreases before release day.
Office 2010 has no upgrade discount so you might try the ‘buy upgrade plus tech guarantee‘ method – buy an Office 2007 upgrade edition (assuming you have a qualifying Office already) and get the free Office 2010.
This works because Office 2010 has no upgrade discount so you are comparing the upgrade discounts for Office 2007 with the higher priced Office 2010 bundles. It works best on the higher priced bundles like Professional or Home and Business.
To qualify for Office 2010 Professional (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access) retail price $499:
Currently the Small Business bundle is cheapest of the three at Amazon @ $237.
To qualify for Office 2010 Home and Business (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote) retail price $279:
(all links to the cheaper, version upgrade, edition at Amazon USA)
