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Monday 13 July 2009

Office 2010 Test Preview revealed

Microsoft Office 2010 Test Preview revealed at Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference.
Various office 2010 productivity suite components - Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, Project, Publisher and visio, all hit the 2010 technical preview milestone, along with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Office 2010 will be accessible by PC, phone and browser.
The new enabling factor is something called "Office Web Applications" which are light-weight versions of Excel, Powerpoint and Word that can in a web browser. Supported browsers currently include Firefox, IE and Safari, giving a good competetion to Google & Zoho.
Microsoft will offer its Office web applications to consumer users for free. Users just have to sign up a Windows Live account. Businesses won't have free access.
Office 2010 also incorporates the "ribbon" menu system, first introduced in Office 2007.

Document collaboration is another feature in Office 2010. Like, Users can edit video in PowerPoint 2010 and then share/broadcast those videos.

Microsoft Office Backstage view lets users quickly access features associated with Office 2010 files, enabling integration with other Office or SharePoint apps.

To test these new productivity suite, Microsoft offers a web form to sign up for waiting list.
Office 2010 Waiting list

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