Office 2010 editions

Here’s a summary of the Office 2010 bundles and which programs you get with each one.

Programs and Features Starter Home and Student Home and Business Professional Standard Professional Plus
Licensing / Availability New Computers / OEM Retail Retail Retail / Academic Volume Volume
Price and other details
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Word 2010 Yes
(limited ’starter’ version)		 ü ü ü ü ü
Excel 2010 Yes (limited ’starter’ version) ü ü ü ü ü
PowerPoint 2010 ü ü ü ü ü
OneNote 2010 ü ü ü ü ü
Outlook 2010 ü ü ü ü
Publisher 2010 ü ü ü
Access 2010 ü ü
Communicator 2010 ü
InfoPath 2010 ü
SharePoint Workspace 2010 ü

Office 2010 Starter Edition version contains limited feature versions of Word 2010 and Excel 2010.  It is only supplied with new computers and can be converted to a fully working Office 2010 if you purchase a product key or

Office 2010 Professional and Office 2010 Professional Academic have been promoted by Microsoft as different products but are actually the same with different prices for regular purchasers and qualified academic users.  The Academic edition is only available via specialist retailers to teachers, faculty, staff and students.

Office 2010 Standard and Office 2010 Professional Plus are only available to volume licence customers – they are not sold in ‘retail boxes’.