Microsoft Office 2010 news
News is that Microsoft will be giving its new Office 2010 Web Applications away for free to small businesses and c0nsumers. Its rumoured that they will launch browser based versions of Word,Excel, Power Point and OneNote. This will allow users to carry on working when they are not in fron of their usual PC. Its said that the online applications will be offered for free via Widows Live and users won’t need to buy the desktop software to take advantage of them.
Microsoft’s move into the online office applications will put pressure on Google’s Docs service. But apparently those clever folk at Google won’t let Microsoft get its own way where its rumoured that Google have got a number of new interfaces and features planned for its Google Docs service.
Microsoft has also reduced the number of versions of Microsoft Office from eight to five. There will be three versions of the software aimed at Home and Small-business users and a new Home and Business version that contains Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. For larger volume users, there will be Professional Plus, which contains every application and Standard, which includes Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Publisher.
The news is that Microsoft Office has never been so unified as it is now, where all its applications have virtually identical user interfaces. Usability is improved and its future-proofed by building in video-editing tools into PowerPoint. A common features in all the Microsoft Office applications work exactly the same way.
The biggest new feature common to all applications is the Backstage View, which replaces the File menu for basic tasks such as saving, printing, sending or sharing documents, and is accessed from a small Office Button at the top left-hand corner for all the Office applications. When you click the Office Button, Backstage View fills the application’s window with a menu, with major options on the left, while the centre and right of the window show sub-options that depend on which option you choose. An example of this is the Print section of the Backstage View combines the old Print dialog with the Print Preview display so you can visually look at your document abd alter setting such as duplex printing and which pages to print. This works well…we like
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