Proofing tools for Office 2010

No one is forcing you to buy Microsoft Office. You can use Open Office or LibreOffice instead. Development is costly. Perhaps you feel that Microsoft should pay its employees third-world salaries in order to price its products at third-world prices?

Office 2010 proofing tools also could be downloaded and installed separately from language packs, without charge, for any single language (not just for “exotic” ones). I know as I downloaded one of them directly from Microsoft's site just a few months ago.

Now it seems there is no way to download proofing tools for Office 2010, as I am searching the web for an hour to access the download page of Office 2010, but could not find anything. It has gone for 2010. Probably Microsoft is “forcing” its 2010 customers to migrate to 2013. A kind way of forcing, isn’t it. As many people here say: Thank you Microsoft...

And Suzanne, no offense but I need to interfere your comment about software prices and salaries of developers:

Companies use the least costly ways to produce their products. I comment as a senior software developer; software development is not an exception. Large scale development companies use many software developers who reside in the 3^rd^ world or who came from the 3^rd^ world. And guess what? They pay lower salaries to these people. Wages for 3^rd^ world, prices for 1^st^ world!

And according to your angle of view, most of the people at the 3rd world cannot buy licensed software as they do not have the money which the developed world requests from them. So they should use free products, yes? No. This is not a fair angle of view. For your information, even Microsoft is making discounts on select products (like Office) at 3^rd^ world countries in order to compensate income differences.

To get back to the original question, I can confirm that it is still not possible to purchase Microsoft Proofing Tools for Office 2010 in the UK - however much one is willing to pay - and even though we were supposed to' take heart' that Microsoft were working on this problem in April!! 

It's available on the US website - but not to UK residents as you have to enter a US address.  It's ridiculous that Microsoft has made the 2010 edition unavailable in the UK and one can only surmise that it's  a way of forcing customers to opt for Windows 8 and Office 2013.  In fact that's what one Microsoft on-line chat advisor suggested I do.

This is really a terrible way to treat customers.

No one is forcing you to buy Microsoft Office. You can use Open Office or LibreOffice instead. Development is costly. Perhaps you feel that Microsoft should pay its employees third-world salaries in order to price its products at third-world prices?

Microsoft is FORCING users to download pirated versions of its software.

It is absolutely ridiculous to sell a language pack at the price of $25.  As is no less ridiculous to sell MS Office at the price of hundreds of dollars.  $25 is a weekly salary of most Medical Doctors in most countries of the world. USA, Canada, UK and France are NOT among most countries of the world.

At this time, majority of 7-billion population of Earth already has access to computers, most of which use Microsoft Office. It is ridiculous to expect that one company should charge hundreds of dollars each person on the planet. Software must now be priced at a level of cents, not dollars, with all additional bells and whistles for that soft added for FREE. Even at a price level of $0.01 for Office, Microsoft will continue to ride the gravy train. But - this might finally squeeze the pirates out (not sure if would be to the delight of the monopolist).

The greed of Microsoft is astonishing.

Indeed.