Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus for Lifetime

Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus for Lifetime (codenamed Office 14) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 was released to manufacturing on April 15, 2010, and was later made available for retail and online purchase on June 15, 2010. It is the successor to Office 2007 and the predecessor to Office 2013. Research and development of Office 2010 began in 2006, before the release of its predecessor.

Office 2010 introduces user interface enhancements including a Backstage view that consolidates document management tasks into a single location. The ribbon introduced in Office 2007 for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word is the primary user interface for all apps and is fully customizable in Office 2010.^[9][10][11] Other new features include extended file format support;^[6] co-authoring features that enable multiple users to share and simultaneously edit documents;^[12] OneDrive and SharePoint integration;^[12] and security improvements such as Protected View, a read-only, isolated sandbox environment to protect users from potentially malicious content.^[13] It also debuted Office Online—formerly Office Web Apps—a collection of free web-based versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word.^[14][15][16] Office Starter 2010, a new edition of Office, replaced Microsoft Works.^[17][18][19] Office Mobile 2010, an update to Microsoft’s mobile productivity suite, was released on May 12, 2010 as a free upgrade from the Windows Phone Store for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices with a previous version of Office Mobile installed.^[20][21][22]

Office 2010 is the first version of Office to ship in two variants for IA-32 and x64,^[23][24] but the x64 version is not compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.^[25][26] It is also the first version to require product activation for volume license editions.^[27][28] Office 2010 supports Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 or a later version, though it could be installed on older service packs of XP through a registry exploit.^[29] It is the last version of Office compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 as its successor, Office 2013, does not support these operating systems.^{[30][31][32][33]}

Reception to Office 2010 was generally positive, with critics praising the new Backstage view interface, the new customization options for the ribbon, and the incorporation of the ribbon into all apps.^[34][35] While sales were initially lower than those of its predecessor,^[36] Office 2010 was a success for Microsoft and surpassed the company’s previous records for adoption,^[37] deployment,^[37] and revenue.^[38] As of December 31, 2011, approximately 200 million licenses of Office 2010 were sold,^[39] before its discontinuation on January 31, 2013.^[40]

Mainstream support for Office 2010 ended on October 13, 2015; extended support ended on October 13, 2020.