Following a public beta possessing more than 7.5 million participants--three times the beta participation for Office 2007--Microsoft is reported to have signed off on Office 2010.

Late Friday Microsoft posted that SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 had also hit RTM status, revealed a blog posted by Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president.

The RTM milestone signifies that the next-generation flagship productivity suite will be available to initiate with burning retail discs and for OEM manufacturers to start developing images that include Office 2010 to be pre-installed on new PC's.

The latest introduced applications have been available as public betas since November and above 7.5 million copies have been downloaded, uncovers the Numoto's blog.

With Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft is revealed to include Web-based versions of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

It enables users to store files in the cloud with the Windows Live SkyDrive, and facilitate transition from working with the Office 2010 Web Apps, to dealing with the same files using the more comprehensive features of their desktop.