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Microsoft Office 2010 Released

Posted by on May 12, 2010 | 7 Comments

After a long and painful beta testing process, The Microsoft Office team has finally released the long-awaited update to the Microsoft Office family. Succeeding Microsoft Office 2007, the 2010 version has many new features to look forward to.

Office 2010 includes a number of new features to help improve the applications, among them a redesigned menu system, improved inline multimedia editing, real-time collaboration integration, improved security settings, and perhaps the longest awaited and biggest feature of them all, a cloud-based Web apps component that aims to compete with Google Docs.

The online component of Office 2010 includes Web-based versions of the software including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. They’re promoted as companion apps to their full desktop counterparts, making the standalone services less powerful than existing cloud champions Google Docs or Zoho.

Google, however, has already launched the first volley in the coming Office Apps Wars by suggesting Office 2007 users would be better served by “upgrading” to Google Docs instead. Still, with an enormous existing base of business Office users, Microsoft will undoubtedly benefit from its incumbent position in the marketplace.

  • YOGESH PAWAR

    I haven’t yet tried out for the 2010 version of Microsoft Office, i want a glimpse of it.

  • http://www.toddalbert.com/ Todd Albert

    I’ll continue to use iWork. I haven’t used Word as my primary word processor ever (WordPerfect and now Pages), Keynote easily beats PowerPoint, and Numbers is now more powerful than Excel. And iWork is fully compatible with Office. So why would I use Microsoft’s expensive garbageware?

    • http://Twitter.com/lrv94 Lee

      I have had office 2010 for a while now (rtm) because I have an Msdn account and it’s a good upgrade from 2007 but if you are still using office xp or 2003 I highly reccomendations upgrading

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  • Patrick

    I’ve been using Open Office at home since there was a stable release. If I were to go commercial and could afford the latest copy of Microsoft Office, I’d probably buy it simply because it’s more stable than Open Office, though I don’t like the ribbon interface all that much.

  • http://twitter.com/bradenmikael bradenmikael

    Indeed, it’s an impressive little device. I pre-ordered mine long ago and the wait seemed to take forever. It was worth it, though. It’s addicting as all heck, too! StarFox64 is going to rock on it!

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