Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Office 2010 is supported for both 32-bit and 64-bit client applications. We recommend that you install Microsoft Silverlight 3 along with Office 2010 to improve the online experience and to power the Office 2010 interactive guides.

• Introduction
  Requirements and product functionality can vary based on the system configuration and operating system. Use of graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB or higher video memory.
• Hard Disk
  3 GB; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard disk.
• Memory
  256 MB of RAM or higher
• Operating System
  Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0 installed, Windows Server 2008 with SP2. Terminal Server and Windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are supported.
• Processor
  500 MHz processor or higher
• Display
  1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor
• Other
  • Certain inking features require running Windows XP Table PC edition or later. Speech recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device.
  • Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity.
  • Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Sp1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007. To share data among multiple computers, the host computer must be running Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows XP Professional with SP2, or later.
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32-bit browser only. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply)
  • 1 GHz processor or higher and 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Business Contact manager. Business Contact Manager not available in all languages.
  • 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant Search.
  • Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.