Microsoft® Access® 2010 Inside Out

Appendix A. Installing Your Software

• Installing the Office System

• Converting from a Previous Version of Access

• Installing the Office 64-Bit Version

• Installing the Sample Files

This book assumes you have installed Microsoft Access 2010 as part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010. To install Office and related software for a single user, you need a Microsoft Windows–compatible computer configured as follows:

• A Pentium 500 megahertz (MHz) or faster processor (Pentium III is recommended as a minimum), and 1 gigahertz (GHz) is required for Microsoft Outlook with Business Contact Manager.

• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) with MSXML 6.0 installed, ...