Microsoft Office 2010 code finalised ahead of May release

Microsoft said on Friday it has wrapped up development work on the next version of the Office family, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010.

The products were released to manufacturing, which is the final engineering step. The products are slated to be available for businesses next month and Microsoft is holding a launch event on 12 May in New York.

"RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone," vice president Takeshi Numoto said in a blog posting. "It is also an appropriate time to re-emphasise our sincere gratitude to the more than 5,000 organisations and partners who have worked with us on rapid deployment and testing of the products."