Curious about the hardware and operating system requirements for Office 2010? Microsoft recently blogged about them.
The minimum hardware requirements are:
That is minimum. Basically it’ll run but not great. MS puts it this way. If you’re running Office 2007 then you’ll be able to run Office 2010. If you’re running Office 2003 there’s a good chance you can run Office 2010 (see above image). If you have a dual (or more) core CPU Office 2010 will run fine. New PC’s will run if superbly.
I’ve been running the CTP (pre beta) on a year old low-ish end Dell laptop. It’s runs pretty well on that.
What about the operating systems?
As you can see, Office 2010 will be the first version to have x86 and x64 versions. Pretty much anyone buying Windows 7 on an OEM PC is 64-bit now. And Windows Server 2008 R2 is 64-bit only.