Microsoft confirms that it will offer the Release Candidate of Office 2010 to testers enrolled in its Technology Adoption Program ahead of the productivity suite’s general release in June. Microsoft previously opened Office 2010 to general public beta testing, much as it had with Windows 7, planning to use feedback from millions of users to refine the final product. Microsoft faces a growing challenge from Google Apps and other cloud-based competitors in the productivity software space.
– Microsoft is offering the Release Candidate of its upcoming Office 2010 to a
select group of testers enrolled in its Technology Adoption Program.
Presumably, the version being offered to that group incorporates feedback from
the massive round of beta testing that Microsoft launched for the produc…