Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide. More than 90 million businesses can now deploy the 2010 suite of products.

“Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 define the future of productivity,” said Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division. “With the 2010 set of products, organizations will save, innovate and grow as their people benefit from working across the PC, phone and browser.”

Microsoft’s Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 beta programs were the largest ever, with three times the number of participants compared with the Office 2007 beta program. As a result, 8.6 million people are already using Office 2010 and related products. In addition, more than 1,000 partners are already building solutions for the 2010 set of products.

Office 2010 and related products deliver new capabilities, such as providing users with tools to collaborate with co-authoring in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote, as well as using advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online companions to Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and OneNote, are also available, allowing easy access to documents from almost anywhere. Office Mobile 2010 will be available for free via Windows Phone Marketplace for all Windows Mobile 6.5 phones with a previous version of Office Mobile.