With the announcement today around the five SKUs of Office 2010, we wanted to confirm what flavors each application would be available in. Microsoft confirmed in April that Office 2010 will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the first release of Microsoft Office to do this. Microsoft was willing to build on that information today.
"Customers will not be required to upgrade 32-bit PCs and laptops to 64-bit hardware to run Office 2010 suite products," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "SharePoint Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 will be available in 64-bit versions. Customers that currently have SharePoint Server 2007 installed on 32-bit hardware will need to upgrade their hardware to 64-bit to deploy SharePoint Server 2010. Certain hardware configurations and operating system versions customers currently have deployed may require an upgrade to run server and client products."
The most interesting part, however, was when we asked about whether or not both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2010 would come on one disc. A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars: "Yes, both will be available on the same DVD." We first pointed out that this was a possibility in May after noticing an error during the 64-bit installation of Office 2010. Today's statement from Microsoft confirms our initial suspicions.
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