Realizing the importance of the increasing market share which the iPhone platform currently posses, Microsoft today has released OneNote app for iPhone and iPod touch. This is the fourth app which has come out of Microsoft for the iPhone/iOS platform, the other three being Bing for iPhone, Seadragon Mobile, and Microsoft Tag.

Redmond Pie in association with Microsoft has organized this huge giveaway to celebrate the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. This giveaway packs x1 genuine Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business (US $280), x1 Flip Ultra HD Camcorder (US $200), x1 Seagate 1TB FreeAgent External HDD (US $109). This brings the total to $589 worth of free goodies from Microsoft Store that you don’t want to miss. !

We informed everyone earlier about the availability of Microsoft Office 2010 on MSDN and TechNet on the 22nd of this month (April). Today is that day! and you can download the RTM version of Office 2010 now from MSDN and TechNet as we speak.

In a surprise move, Microsoft and Facebook today has announced Docs.com – a social word-processing platform from where you can share your Office documents on Facebook with other people. The idea behind the whole thing is to let people share their Office documents on Facebook, it is really that simple. Editing and creating documents is now a piece of cake.

Microsoft has announced that they have reached RTM (Release to Manufacturing) stage for Office 2010 and that it will be available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers on 22nd of April. The official launch of Office 2010 will be hosted in New York City on 12th May including many other virtual events, and it will be available in every retail store in the US in June.

The Release Candidate (RC) bits of Office 2010 along with Office Web Applications are now available for technical beta participants via Microsoft Connect. Microsoft at the moment is in the process of sending out invites for Office 2010 RC program, so if you have received one then you can now immediately download and evaluate Office 2010 RC Build 14.0.4734.1000 before the public availability. Office 2010 RC is available in both 32 and 64-bit flavors.

A new Build 14.0.4730.1007 of Office 2010 has been leaked by WZOR, a site infamously known for many leaked builds of Windows 7 during its testing stages. While the stuff which is new to this build is not known yet, but a new EULAID:O14_RTM_VL.1_RTM_EN, shown in “Microsoft Software License Terms” indicates that Office 2010 may probably have internally entered RTM branch.

Microsoft today on Day 2 of Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) has released Office Mobile 2010 Beta for Windows phones running Windows Mobile 6.5. Those of you with Windows phones, capable of running Windows Mobile OS can download and install Office Mobile 2010 from Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile.

As was expected, Microsoft today on Day 2 of Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) has released Microsoft Office 2010 Beta to public via Microsoft Download Center. General public can now test and evaluate the latest version of Office 2010 to help make the product better before it hits RTM sometime next year. The Build number of Office 2010 Beta is 14.0.4536.1000 which is newer than the previously leaked build 14.0.4514.1009.

The Beta bits of Office 2010 Beta along with Office Web Applications are now up on MSDN and TechNet Plus. TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers can now download and evaluate Office 2010 Beta before the official public availability on November 18th. The most significant change in this Beta Build from the Technical Preview is the new installation procedure for test versions of Office 2010 SKUs, Upload Center, modified version of Backstage view and new refreshed icons for all Office products. Office 2010 Beta is available in both 32 and 64-bit flavors.

A new Build 14.0.4514.1009 from Microsoft Office 2010 Beta branch has been leaked in the wild, and is now available for download. The most significant change in this leaked build is the new installation procedure for test versions of Office 2010 SKUs. Previously, setup used to ask for product keys after it has been initiated, but now, starting from Build 14.0.4514.1009, Office 2010 will ask you for a special unique installation product key before setup has even started, thus making it difficult for those who try to leech through illegal sources.

The latest Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4417.1000 which was leaked about a week ago features refreshed icons for all Office applications. And like any previous version of Office, all the icons from this latest leaked build have been extracted and are available for download at deviantART. The Office 2010 Applications Icon Pack includes 60 high-resolution icons in both PNG and ICO format.