As announced by Steve Ballmer on day one of SharePoint conference 2009 at Las Vegas the public beta of SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Twenty Ten as pronounced by Microsoft) will be available later next month i.e. November 2009. The Office 2010 beta which is being tested by more than 100K users outside of Microsoft is also likely to become available in same duration. He also shared that they are expecting to make this revolutionary 2010 system launched in first half of 2010. Interestingly Steve confessed that this is his first SharePoint conference and compared to his predecessor Bill Gates who attended almost all SharePoint conferences. The keynote at SPC 2009 was marked with typical Steve Ballmer style. He is indeed a genius marketing brain and business head.