Just a quick note for those looking to buy the new Office 2010 suite for their home or small business. There are two primary options you have here; Home and Student, and Home and Business. Both are lower-cost alternatives to the more complete Professional and higher editions.
Home and Student is meant for non-commercial use only, and comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The key selling point for this edition is that for around $150, you get the most important Office programs, and can install them on up to three computers in your household.
Home and Office is directed at the small business professional. It adds Office Outlook to the included products, and permits commercial usage. This edition is meant to be used by only a single person, but it permits installation and activation on two computers; your desktop and your mobile computer. List price is $279.
Both of the above come with 90-days of technical support from Microsoft.
For those who need more, Office Professional adds Access and Publisher, for a notably higher price tag. It also comes with 1 year of technical support.
Finally, if your computer came installed with an Office 2010 Evaluation, you can also save a little by getting a key card only.