Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 is a version of Microsoft Office, released on 25 April 2010. It includes newer PowerPoint animation effects, new splash screens, and the Ribbon interface is now available in every application. Support for Office 2010 ended on 13 October 2020.

The final build number is 14.0.4760. Many torrents and even OEMs distribute build 4734 (which is not the final RTM build), as "RTM".

Office 2010 is the last version of Microsoft Office that could run under an unmodified installation of Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008.

System requirements
Office 2010 is the first version to have an x64 variant, though the x64 variant has some limitations. The x86 version only officially supports Windows XP SP3 or newer, Windows Server 2003 SP2 or newer, or Windows Vista SP1 or newer, the x64 version only officially supports Windows Vista SP1 or newer, though it can be tricked to run on Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Using Extended Kernel, this version can also theoretically run on Windows 2000, though some bugs may occur (like Office 2007). Unofficially, this is the last version of Office that supports Windows 2000. Officially, this is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1-SP2 and Windows Server 2008 RTM-SP2 as the following version, Microsoft Office 2013 only supports Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or later, with Windows 11 being unsupported.

This is the last version of Microsoft Office to support processors without PAE, SSE2, and NX.

In addition, the following is required:
 * A 500 MHz processor; 1 GHz for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
 * 256 MB of RAM; 1 GB for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010; 512 MB recommended
 * Graphics: 1024×768; 1024x576 for Home and Student, Home and Business; DirectX 9.0c graphics card and 64 MB of video memory recommended
 * Internet access required for product activation
 * Mouse and keyboard; stylus and touchscreen for certain inking functionality
 * Audio output device required for multimedia effects; microphone required for speech recognition

Click to Run
Office 2010 includes a new "Click to Run" (C2R) installer as an alternative to the old MSI installer. It is used in the Starter, Home and Business and Home and Student SKUs.