Office 2010 Release Candidate out

If you’re one of the select few in Microsoft’s TAP (”Technology Adoption Program”) you may have been offered a chance to run Office 2010 RC 1.

Ars Technica has the scoop:

“Microsoft made a release candidate available to members in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP),” a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed with Ars. “This is one of Microsoft’s planned milestones in the engineering process; however they do not have plans to make this new code set available broadly.”

… The Office 2010 beta that Microsoft gave out to the public three months ago was build 14.0.4536.1000 and has already been downloaded over 2 million times. Since then, and even before then, there have been many leaks of other builds; the latest one we’ve seen is build 14.0.4734.1000, which leaked out only last week

UPDATE: Neowin reports that the RC version (Build 4734.1000) is now available to all Technical Beta participants. No, if I was in the beta, I couldn’t tell you. But Neowin can.