Microsoft finalizes Office 2010
Microsoft said Friday that it has wrapped up development work on the next version of the Office family, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010.
The products were "released to manufacturing," which is the final engineering step. The products are slated to be available for businesses next month and Microsoft is holding a launch event on May 12 in New York.
"RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone," vice president Takeshi Numoto said in a blog posting. "It is also an appropriate time to re-emphasize our sincere gratitude to the more than 5,000 organizations and partners who have worked with us on rapid deployment and testing of the products."
The Office suite, in all its many flavors, will hit store shelves in June and Microsoft is planning a separate Gotham event to mark that occasion. Microsoft is also taking preorders for Office on its online store. Already Microsoft has been promising those buying Office 2007 a free upgrade to Office 2010.
Redmond is also planning to allow PC makers to load a slimmed down Office Starter that users will get for free on new computers.
Among the biggest changes in the new version of Office is the fact that Microsoft will release separate browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Businesses will be able to host the Office Web Apps on a SharePoint server, while consumers will be able to get free access as part of Windows Live.
On the desktop side, Microsoft is adding the first 64-bit version of Office as well as other changes including video editing in PowerPoint, photo editing in Word, and an improved "paste preview" function.
Microsoft noted Friday that more than 7.5 million people have been using the beta version of Office 2010.
I waiting for the free online version of Office , just to write resume and design some basic powerpoint slides (as greeting/notice) :)
Before you post s/t against MS (or whomever for that matter) next time just b/c you dont like them, make sure what you say is correct at least so you dont look like a D.A.!
I got used to using just only the buttons I see on the home tab. I used to use a lot of the features and now I only type and try to get by. I really like new Outlook.
To judge by your tone, you should probably work for Apple.
Both sides have a point - but while there is progress to be made, there is no good reason to make major changes to the way the 'old fashioned' drop-down menus & shortcuts are arranged and behave as has been done over the years. Yes, the ribbon is fine, and I use it at home with a newer version of MS Office - but where I work, where older versions of the program are used, I do have to hunt quite a bit to locate 'simple' commands that take me a few seconds to navigate to at home.
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for PPT 2010?
In my experience, OpenOffice is no math to Office 2010 and most people get free copies from their companies or on torrents.
Support.
OpenOffice is free to get, but costs you a lot more on the backend than promoters would like you to know.
There's a reason why MS Office is so popular. And that's because of how Microsoft choose to market it in the early days. MS Office is now the de facto productivity suite (like it or not). So even though OpenOffice or iWorks or StarOffice may have some features you won't find in MS Office, MS Office is still the Bestselling productivity suite and more importantly others will try to make their Apps compatible with MS Office (never the other way around) simply because people are used to it and secondly when you talk about Office to an Avg Joe, they can always relate it to MS Office.
Another reason why MS Office is so popular is because Companies (most if not all) use MS Office and if you are used to MS Office at work you are more likely to buy MS Office for home.
Open Office is a great free program which can be compared to Microsoft Office
- by organic28 April 17, 2010 8:23 PM PDT
- Its great news. I was also awaiting the updated from microsoft.
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