Ribbon Hero 2 improves on that concept with new cartoon style interface and different story line for Clippy (yes that annoying little clip which offered help in older versions of Office applications). The story begins with Bill Gates firing clippy. Poor clippy was forced to be homeless after his mom threw him out of their basement. With no option but to find a new job, clippy goes on a job hunt.

The game also encourages you to share your score with your friends on Facebook. Ribbon Hero 2 works only on Windows for Office 2007, 2010. Office 2011 for Mac users need to wait longer, perhaps for Ribbon Hero 3 to arrive? We are not sure on that either! You can download Ribbon Hero 2 from ribbonhero.com

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“This product installation has been corrupted.  Please reinstall from original CD or source.”

According to Vikas Narula from Technet, the problem is cause by a missing file from the installation folder of Office 2010:

“To uninstall Office 2010 14.0.4302.1000 if you have an uninstall error message "This product installation has been corrupted". The Problem is a missing file in the installation folder of office 2010. Office 2010 as a Setup Controller directory and uses the directory to check the installed components. Please check he directory  "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\". if you have no "Setup.xml" file there please copy the file from the "Groove.en-us" directory of the source files to this directory and test the uninstallation again”

To fix this issue, right click and save setup.xml to your computer and copy it to this folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\

Now try uninstalling Office 2010 Technical Preview.

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A quick search on Mininova will reveal both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Office 2010. Both x64 and x86 versions of Office 2010 have healthy seeders, and have been download 4,960 and 2,523 times respectively at the time of writing this post.

This is actually the first time Microsoft is releasing Office in both x86 and x64 flavors. This build of Office 2010 is numbered 14.0.4514.1009 and asks for activation key, as per Neowin. Check out some of the screenshots posted by CravingTech.com:

If you have tried the previous technical preview of Office 2010, you’ll immediately notice that the UI has been tuned a little. The icons for programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint have also been facelifted.

Some users on Mininova commented that Office 2010 requires activation key to be used for more than 30 days, but other users have been able to find the workaround and activate it without any glitches. Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) will be held at Los Angeles tomorrow, and I expect them to use this opportunity to release the beta to public and distribute free activation keys for the same, just like they did for Windows 7. Did you try Office 2010 beta? Tell us what you think…

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