Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft released Microsoft Office 2010 Beta to the public during the 2nd half of November. I haven’t downloaded it myself, but I’ve been reading the reviews about Microsoft’s new productive pack. Currently I use Microsoft Office 2007 (downloaded from my University powered by the MSDN Academic Alliance).
The introduction of the ribbon interface was a big success. Ribbon allowed users to access in a fast and more intuitive, all the common used functionalities but also, that other feature that was buried beneath all that non-friendly menus, that no one other than the power users knew that previously existed.
Microsoft Office 2010
The interface of Office 2010 didn’t change much to the previous version, the ribbon interface is still there (in fact, since its debut in Office 2007, ribbon become the default User Interface paradigm in almost all Microsoft Products (see Windows 7 new Paint, Wordpad…). The only major difference in the interface is the Orb, Microsoft got rid of it, since a lot of people using Office 2007 constantly asked “Where the File Menu Is?”.
Office 2010 new features include support for new video formats in Powerpoint, new text effects in Word 2010, customization of the Ribbon Interface, 64-bit support (finally), new Outlook email management, social networking integration into Outlook 2010 among several other features and improvements.
Office 2010 will be made available by Microsoft in June 2010. It will come in six different versions, one of them will be a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements.
The new Office Beta reached 1Million downloads in two weeks. If you want to try it out, go to Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Website and download it for free.
Link: Microsoft Office 2010 Website
