As you may know Microsoft has released the first public beta of their forthcoming Office suite. Following the successful technical preview program, Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft unveiled the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010.

A new feature of Office Outlook 2010 is the Social Connector, which will be available early next year, The Outlook Social Connector brings business and social networking to the work force. People already spend a large portion of their day in Outlook, with most people receiving over 93 e-mail messages per day. Outlook Social Connector lets them connect with people faster, without switching programs or changing their routine.

The Outlook Social Connector will enable both business and social networking by integrating with SharePoint 2010 at beta and Windows Live at launch. For developers starting today, the Outlook Social Connector SDK is also available for download on MSDN. The SDK can be used to easily build connectors to third-party social networks. 

You may download the Office 2010 beta in either 32-bit or 64-bit, to download the beta, you will need to have Java installed on your PC.

Download: Office 2010 Public Beta