Microsoft Office 2010 test opens

Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at its Office 2010 software, but it’s keeping a key development — free Web-based versions of programs such as Word and Excel — under wraps a little while longer.

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at its Office 2010 software, but it’s keeping a key development — free Web-based versions of programs such as Word and Excel — under wraps a little while longer.

Microsoft is updating the highly profitable desktop software package to add more ways for people to work simultaneously on documents, organize their e-mail and edit videos and photos, among other changes. And for the first time, Microsoft is adding free companion versions that run in a Web browser.

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