Microsoft launched Office 2010, Office Web

Yesterday (July 13), Microsoft officially launched the first widely tested version of the next version of the Office 2010 suite and said the version of Office Web will be available in August.

Office 2010: Towards simplicity

Specifically released this time is the Office 2010 Technical Preview version. As its name suggests, this is a version exclusively for software professionals. Microsoft also confirmed Office 2010 Technical Preview will not be released widely. In order to receive this version, users must receive an invitation to participate in the Microsoft test.

Song just hours after being introduced to the Office 2010 Technical Preview version has leaked out and launched a peer-to-peer BitTorrent network. If users know how to download data from BitTorrent network, this version can be downloaded for free.

Users who do not know how to download BitTorrent are not worried because Office 2010 will not be tested soon. Microsoft expects this summer to release a widely tested Office 2010. The exact time is not yet available. Clearly announced.

The goal is to introduce some of the innovations that will be available in this version. There are many new features that Microsoft intends to include in Office 2010 that are not currently available in the Technical Preview version. These features will continue to be improved in the next test versions.

PowerPoint 2010 has the ability to edit images and videos directly

One of the welcome innovations when Office 2010 was introduced is that Microsoft decided to reduce the number of Office 2010 versions to 5 instead of 8 versions like Office 2007.

Specifically, Office 2010 will have Office Home & Student versions - including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and oneNote; Office Home & Business - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, oneNote and Outlook; Office Standard - more Publisher available; Office Professional - add Access; and Office Professional Plus - have a full set of applications such as the above versions and add SharePoint Workspace, InfoPath.

Two versions of Office Professional and Office Professional Plus will only be sold as a software license package (volume license) and not retail. The price of the current version has not been revealed.

Excel 2010 has a new feature to display graphically increasing and decreasing data

Other points of interest in Office 2010 include PowerPoint with a built-in image and video editing editor. Excel has the ability to express new image data. Outlook has more email management capabilities and more powerful scheduling .

Office Web

One of the goals that comes with Office 2010 that Microsoft wants to achieve soon is to release an online version of Office application - Office Web. Yesterday, Microsoft also revealed that in August, Office Web will be officially introduced to users.

This is Word online in the browser.

Similar to Office 2010 Technical Preview, when launched, Microsoft will only allow a certain number of software experts to test Office Web. When the application reaches a certain quality Microsoft began to put it into extensive testing.

The ultimate goal that Microsoft wants Office Web to do is to bring the Office application platform to all users - from PC users, mobile devices, smart phones, browsers . by the entire Web Office. on the web browser platform without installing the application. Microsoft claims Office Web will be compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari as well as fully support the Microsoft Silverlight platform.

Office Web will include Word, PowerPoint, Excel and oneNote applications and will be released in 3 different versions - including the free version with ads, the Office Web version does not advertise the full license registration fee packages, and Office Web versions charge users through Microsoft online Services.

In addition, users who buy Office 2010 Professional Plus and Office Standard will also be able to use Office Web. To use Office Web users will be required to have a Windows Live account.

The story that Microsoft has to launch Office Web is also an inevitable thing when Google has long had Google Docs - free version of office applications also have the same features as Office. When the world is more connected to the network and the explosion of cloud computing technology makes web applications boom, Microsoft can no longer ignore Google Docs and have to develop Office Web.

Launched with Office 2010 yesterday also included a SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. Experiments all reached the Technical Preview stage.