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By admin, December 4, 2009

As Microsoft has already announced the month of Office 2010 launch, another move has just been made by Vole in alliance with Microsoft to spike the declining sales of Microsoft Office 2007.

According to Inquirer

Redmond is offering customers 20 per cent off Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 purchases plus an upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 when it launches in June 2010.

It is a similar move which was taken earlier by Microsoft to pre-sell Windows 7 and boost Windows Vista sales before the launch. Windows Vista was offered at a discounted price along with a free upgrade to Windows 7, months before the scheduled launch of Windows 7. As a marketing standpoint, the strategy is great for the product sellers as the hype surrounding the product works hugely in favor of product pre-selling and helps squeezing the most out of the existing product version.

But sometimes, the users feel unhappy with being pre-selled as this way, they surrender themselves to the yet to launch product purely on the basis of hype, without having any sort of real user feedback.

But in this case, as millions of users have already tried out Office 2010 Beta, there’s hardly any doubt about the capability and feature additions in Office 2010 among the Beta tester community.

The offer is open until December 31, 2009. Grab it fast if you want to !

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By admin, September 4, 2009

It is being rumored that Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo Build Beta 1 is ready to get out of the shell and some of the leaked screenshots are already floating on web.

In the screenshots shown below,  Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo with build 14.0.4417.1000 has been shown. Frankly, you won’t even be able to find a slight difference from the Office 2010 Technical preview and this Beta 1 release as the main difference will be bug fixes.

Take a look..

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By admin, July 24, 2009

Microsoft has finally unveiled the next version of Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Office 2010 for limited technical preview. All the Office applications within the suite have been upgraded and the most popular application, Microsoft Word 2010 has got some major upgrades in terms of features and enhancements.

Below is the in-depth description about various features, which have been introduced in Microsoft Word 2010.

1. Browser version of Microsoft Word 2010

The most significant addition to Microsoft Word 2010 is the introduction of its browser version, apart of the exisitng desktop version. With this latest addition, the word document can be published on web from the desktop version itself and can be edited via browser version as well. This eliminates the need of having desktop version of Microsoft Word 2010 on every computer you work with.

2. Document Fidelity

Fidelity is the ability to recreate the original source. With both the browser and desktop versions of Microsoft Word 2010, the user may like to switch between the two versions, while working on the same word document. Now, Microsoft has given special attention in preserving the fidelity of the Word document. This means that the appearance of the Word document in browser version will be almost similar to appearance of the same document in desktop version. Formatting, margins, fonts etc will not be distorted at all.

3. Instant Screenshot

With Microsoft Word 2010, there is a ‘screenshot’ button integrated within the ribbon, which enables the user to take an instant screenshot of the background of the word application. It has been assumed that the user wants to take the screenshot, present just below the word 2010 application. In case, the user wants to take a custom screenshot, then an option is provided called ‘Screen Clipping’, which enables the user to adjust the screenshot size and embed it directly into the word document.

4. Images background removal

Another feature that has been introduced in Microsoft Word 2010 is ‘background image removal’. This is a feature which eliminates the need of using Adobe Photoshop for the same purpose of removing background image. In the ribbon, click on ‘Format’ within ‘Picture tools’ and select the option ‘Remove background’. Further, mark the area which you want to keep. Once selected, the feature removes the image background. The accuracy of ‘background scrapping’ largely depends on the type of image. A high contrast image will produce better results than a low contrast image. This feature will produce satisfactory results for basic images.

5. Collaborative Document Editing

This feature is exclusive to desktop version of Microsoft Office 2010. Using this new feature, multiple users can co-edit same word document simultaneously. Both the collaborating users are notified about the current editor of the word document.

6. More Art Effects in WordArt

More designs have been added to existing WordArt collection, such as ‘Neon effects’, Glass effect and more such variations, which were earlier possible exclusively with Photoshop.

7. Artistic Effects

This is another image based feature which was exclusive to Photoshop and has now been included within Word application. You can now add artistic effects such as ‘Pencil effect’, ‘Cartoon effect’, ‘blur effect’, ‘Black & White effect’ among many other effects to any of your image inserted in Word document.