The BIG Day has finally arrived. Microsoft Office 2010, along with Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 has finally been made available for consumers worldwide. Users can simply jump to online Microsoft Store and buy & download their very own copy of Office 2010.
Users can choose from three major versions of Office 2010 productivity suite, namely
- Office Home & Business 2010
- Office Home & Student 2010
- Office Professional 2010
Users can also choose to download a trial version of Office 2010 and upgrade their Trial versions after using it for a while and getting a taste of new features and add-ins in Office 2010 suite. This is a part of Microsoft’s latest approach of giving users an option of Try & Buy Office 2010 .
According to Microsoft’s official announcement, Microsoft has collaborated with global hardware partners to ensure that over 100 million PCs, laptops, Netbooks etc get sold with Office Starter 2010 pre-loaded onto them. Users can later upgrade their Office Starter 2010 version by buying Product Key Card and self-upgrading their Office 2010 productivity suite.
Office Web Apps are a major draw for the end users in this installment of Office productivity suite.
So go and get your copy of Office 2010 right away !
Latest news from Microsoft Office officials is that Mac users will only be getting Office 2011 in 32 bit version only, no 64 bit version, when Microsoft releases Office 2010 for Mac this fall. Earlier, Microsoft also announced that Office 2010 will not run on 64 bit version of Windows XP.
Going by the facts, 64 bit version of Office suite has never been the preferred option for most of the Office users across the world. 32 bit version takes less system resources and does absolutely fine compared to 64 bit version.
The only difference that 64 bit Office version brings in is that there is no limit over the file size of office documents in the higher bit version. But practically, it’s a rare possibility for anyone to create word, excel & powerpoint documents of file size crossing more than 2 GB of size, even for enterprise users.
Hence, there will hardly be anyone who is going to bother about the absence of 64 bit version of Office 2010, that too for minority Mac users, when 32 bit version comes out this fall.
As promised by Microsoft Office team couple of weeks back, Office web apps are finally integrated into Skydrive cloud storage service and they are very much accessible by the users from now onwards.
Although Jason Moore, Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows Live SkyDrive has written on the official blog that the integrated service has been made available to US, UK, Canada and Ireland users at this point of time but it’s working absolutely fine for users belonging to any country as well. You may not get a language customized version of Office web apps for now but that’s also on the way, quotes Jason in the announcement post.
So from now on, you can start working on your office documents right through your web browser and start sharing your content across the web, no matter how large the shared file(s) may be. This is actually the biggest advantage of Skydrive integration with Office web apps as the files being shared are stored within your Skydrive account and whenever you share your files with someone else, the recipient gets to see the cloud hosted version of that file and therefore doesn’t even require a download to see the file. File size can therefore go upto 10 GB, which is enormously huge. This way, file download becomes an option, no more a compulsion to the users. Continue reading 'Office Web Apps go live on Skydrive. Soon to come on Hotmail !'»
Microsoft has recently informed all its Office Live Workspace users via email notification that all the Office Live Workspace accounts will soon be upgraded for FREE. Microsoft Office Live Workspace will be integrated/merged with Windows Live Skydrive, thereby providing facility for every Windows Live Workspace user to store and share documents and photos with upto 25 GB of web space allocated for each account.
It won’t be just about document storage and sharing as the users will also be able to view, create and edit office documents, using newly introduced Office Web Apps. There is no fixed date announced by Microsoft regarding this account upgrade but it appears that the upgrade isn’t too far away.
Microsoft writes…
In the coming months, you’ll receive notification when your Office Live Workspace account will be upgraded, along with further details. Until then, there’s no need for you to do anything.
With this news from Microsoft, its pretty clear that Microsoft wants to provide the best experience and productivity gain to its users by clubbing the forces of Office Live Workspace, Windows Skydrive and Office Web Apps together and give least reasons to its users for making transition to other competing cloud based productivity services such as Google docs and Zoho docs.
Here’s the email in webpage format
Microsoft has recently announced the worldwide availability of Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010 along with Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 to all of 90 million businesses existing worldwide. From now on, every business, from small scale firms to large enterprises, can get the latest version of Office productivity suite, i.e., Office 2010 and start utilizing the advantages of the latest Office 2010 suite of products.
While giving a keynote presentation to media at New York, Stephen Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division said…
“Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 define the future of productivity. With the 2010 set of products, organizations will save, innovate and grow as their people benefit from working across the PC, phone and browser.”
With Microsoft Office 2010, businesses will not only increase their productivity but also take advantage of the newly introduced Office Web Apps, which will truly enable the users in collaborating online and working anywhere. Continue reading 'Microsoft Announces Availability of Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 to Businesses Worldwide'»
Microsoft Office 2010 has finally reached its Release To Manufacturing(RTM) stage. In other words, the product development and enhancement stages are completely over and the product is absolutely ready to be offered to Microsoft partners and other prominent hardware manufacturers for integration and pre-installation into PC hardware, laptops, netbooks etc.
And its not just Office 2010 but SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 as well that have reached RTM stage.
From the Office 2010 team blog…
RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone. 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
This also reaffirms our earlier reporting that the Office 2010 team is well on its pre-determined target and Office 2010 should be available for the general public purchase by early June 2010.
Ever since the pre-sales of Office 2010 started off, microsoft lovers have been eagerly waiting for MS Office 2010 application suite and with this RTM milestone news, the long wait is about to get over very soon.
Microsoft has clarified that Office 2010, the upcoming application suite from Microsoft will NOT support Windows XP 64 bit version at all. More astounding is the fact that this is the first time that Microsoft is releasing two versions of Office 2010, 32 bit and 64 bit.
Now if Microsoft is releasing ‘first ever’ 64 bit version of Office 2010, why can’t that version support WinXP 64 bit version. Because, Microsoft is sick and tired of their eight year old operating system(Win XP 32 bit, in particular), which is still the most popular operating system in the world.
With no revenues coming from Win XP anymore, Microsoft is now least interested in supporting Win XP but as XP is still the most popular OS around, they can’t pr-empt their XP support, even if they wish to. Not offering support for latest Microsoft’s software releases is possibly the only way for them to let people get rid of Win XP.
To do things smoothly rather than being too abrupt, Microsoft has decided to stop providing Win XP 64 bit support for Office 2010. Expect that Microsoft will follow up with many such moves to make people jump to Windows 7.
For information sake, here are the Windows versions(both Personal and Enterprise) supported by Microsoft Office 2010.
- Windows XP (32-bit only)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0 installed
- Windows Vista SP1+
- Windows Server 2008 SP2+
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008 R2
And 64 bit version of Office 2010 will, of course, be useless for 32 bit versions of any version of Windows.
This one is mainly for the developer community. (if you’re not a developer then you should download this) Microsoft Office Team has just released a Developer Training Kit for Office 2010
This one belongs to the developer community (if you’re not a developer but user then you better download this). Microsoft Office Team has just released Office 2010 Beta Developer Training Kit, for the purpose of providing training material for developers to gear up building Office Add-ins and Office Business Applications (OBAs) using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform.
As written on MSDN blog about this…
This training kit is an offline complement to the Office Learning Center and provides you with links to the videos but you’ll have the hands-on labs (HOLs), source code and presentations conveniently available on your machine. This is the same content that we developed for our ISV early adoption program called Metro, that we are now making broadly available to Office developers everywhere!
Here is the download link for Office 2010 Beta developer Training Kit
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In case, you’ve been waiting for Office 2010 to hit the market and also want to dig out all the features and capabilities that’s getting offered with Office 2010 then you just got something for you…
Rush to download a recently released eBook titled “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010”, which the Redmond company is providing to customers at zero cost. This will help end users understand the features and latest updates to the upcoming Office application suite.
This ‘No Registration Required’ download will last for a limited time only so download your copy right away.
In their own words…
“For a limited time you can download this free e-book without stepping through any registration. First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content, organized like so: Part I, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes in Office 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way you work today. Part II, “Hit the Ground Running,” focuses on each of the Office 2010 applications in turn, spotlighting the key new features and showing how they relate to the whole. Part III, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big picture and provides examples to help you think through interoperability.”
Here is the download page
In case, you want to download Office 2010 Beta, go here.
As we know that Office 2010 Closed preview and Beta launches are done already and it’s very much official as well that Microsoft Office 2010 application suite will start selling to individuals and businesses by June 2010.
But what’s surprising is the fact that Microsoft
As we know that Office 2010 Closed preview and Beta launches are done already and it’s very much official as well that Microsoft Office 2010 application suite will start selling to individuals and businesses by June 2010.
But what’s utterly surprising, even for us, is the fact that Microsoft has already started working on the successor of Office 2010, currently referred as Microsoft Office 15. Now when Office 2010 is yet to make its way to the market, hearing about in-progress successor sounds a little too advanced but then, it’s Microsoft’s second most popular product suite and second most profitable as well so you can digest it anyways.
Another reason for such an advanced development is the fact that Google is in full mood to drift away as many MS Office users as possible towards Cloud based Google Docs, an immature competitor to Office product suite till date.
Taking the reference from past Office releases, our guess is that Microsoft Office 15 may hit the market somewhere in mid 2013. That’s still some three and a half years from now so there’s no need to bother about it right now.
Right now, more important stuff to know is that Office 2010 Beta has hit a milestone ! There are now over 1 million Beta testers of Office 2010, since its release two weeks back. This is, by far the highest number of Office beta testers ever achieved in just two weeks taking account of early Office beta releases.
Looks like excitement is building up for Office 2010 as we are approaching the year 2010 !
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