The Home and Student and Home and Business Office 2010 suites can also be installed as regular applications. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982434/en-us

>I can't find any posts on this, so I wanted to ask if anyone has any more info... Two of the three Office 2010 suites (Home and Student) and (Home and Business) use what MS calls "Click-to-run" technology. This technology does not install the office products normally as with 2007 and prior. Instead, it streams the installation components and runs the programs on a virtual Q: drive. Sounds ok, but the problem is that Automation code doesn't work.
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>For instance: loWordApp= CreateObject("Word.Application") will not find the word application. I've been instructing my customers who are installing Office 2010 to install the "Office 2010 Professional" suite instead (a lot more expensive), otherwise my VFP applications will not be able to communicate with Word and Outlook. I verified this back in March 2010. My Office 2010 trial on my Win7 pc has expired, so I can't verify if this has been changed or fixed yet by MS.
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>Does anyone else have more knowledge about this? Or know if MS plans to correct this? It seems this would be a pretty big issue for a lot of apps using Office automation where users are upgrading to Office 2010 (Home & Student) or (Home and Business) versions.
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>Here's some links on this:
>http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-debuts-second-office-2010-beta-980
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>http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2009/11/06/click-to-run-delivering-office-in-the-21st-century.aspx
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>Thanks for any info, -Mark