MICROSOFT
OFF
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010
BETA P
REVIEW
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Release June 2010
“Less” versions
Starter
Home and Student
Home and Office
ProfessionalProfessional
Plus
Word x – limited x x x X
Excel x – limited x x x X
PowerPoint x x x X
OneNote x x x X
Outlook x x X
Access x X
Publisher x X
Sharepoint Workspace X
InfoPath X
WEB BROWSER VERSIONSApplications Excel PowerPoint OneNote Word
Available through Business’ Microsoft SharePoint Server Windows Live
Available “later this year”
NEW V
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WIN
DOWS M
OBILE
6.5
OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESThe Ribbon Has made it to all applications Expanded and deeper functionality
Quicksteps
Paste Preview
Enhanced typography
OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESImproved photo video editing Photo
Effects Video
Trim Fades and transitions
OVERARCHING SUITE CHANGESBackstage Replaces File menu and Office button Full screen options for
Opening Saving Permissions Printing Sharing
BACKSTAGE
BACKSTAGE
WORDImage background removal tool
Lots of new text effects
Min
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EXCELLots of performance improvement and better statistical
calculations
PivotTables add dashboard for exploring results
More color coded results
Moderate
changes
POWERPOINTVideo editing within the application
Video borders
Show merging
New transitions, as always with a new version
Moderate
changes
OUTLOOKRibbon everywhere
Improved and powerful Conversation view
Cleanup Conversations
Social Connector can tie in to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr
Contact cards show up in lots of places
Groups of users with shared calendars
Gre
at
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ges
ONENOTERibbon
Screen snipping allows copying to a section or just to the clipboard
Linked notes to any Office documents
Audio and video recording
Moderate
changes
PUBLISHERHuge benefits from the Ribbon
Moderate
changes
ACCESSWhat changes?
Min
imal
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ges