Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 logo
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Microsoft Office 2010 applications shown on Windows 7 (clockwise from top left: Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and Student Edition)
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial release June 15, 2010 (2010-06-15)[1]
Stable release Build 14.0.4763.1000 / June 15, 2010; 7 months ago (2010-06-15)
Operating system Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (32-Bit only)
Platform Microsoft Windows (Intel x86 32-bit/64-bit)
Available in English, Hindi, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Arabic, and Hebrew.[2]
Type Office suite
License Proprietary commercial
Website microsoft.com/office/2010

Microsoft Office 2010 is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows,[3] and the successor to Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2010 includes extended file format support,[4] user interface updates,[5] and a refined user experience.[6][7] With the introduction of Office 2010, a 64-bit version of Office[8] is available, although not for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.[9] Office 2010 does not support Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.[10]

On April 15, 2010, Office 2010 was released to manufacturing, with those Volume Licensing customers who have Software Assurance being able to download the software from April 27, 2010. The suite became available for retail as well as online purchase on June 15, 2010.[1][11]

Office 2010 marks the debut of free online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, which work in popular web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari, but not Opera). A new edition of Office, Office Starter 2010, replaced the low-end home productivity software, Microsoft Works.

Microsoft's update to its mobile productivity suite, Office Mobile 2010, will also be released for Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7. In Office 2010, every application features the Ribbon, including OneNote, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace (previously known as Groove), and the new Office Web Apps.

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History and development

Development started in 2007 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 12, released as Microsoft Office 2007. The version number 13 was skipped due to the aversion to the number 13.[12] It was previously thought that Office 2010 (then called Office 14) would ship in the first half of 2009.[13]

On January 10, 2009, screen shots of an Office 2010 alpha build were leaked by a tester.[14]

On April 15, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 would be officially released in the first half of 2010. They announced on May 12, 2009 at a Tech Ed event, a trial version of the 64 bit edition.[15][16]

An internal post-Beta build was leaked on July 12, 2009, newer than the official preview build and including a "Limestone" internal test application.[17]

On July 14, 2009, Microsoft started to send out invitations on Microsoft Connect to test an official preview build of Office 2010.[18] On August 30, 2009, the beta build 4417 was leaked on the internet via torrents.[19]

The public beta has been available to subscribers of TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Connect users as of November 16, 2009.[20] On November 18, 2009, the beta was officially released to the general public at the Microsoft Office Beta website which was originally launched by Microsoft on November 11, 2009 to provide screenshots of the new office suite. Office 2010 Beta is a free, fully functional version, and will expire on October 31, 2010.[21]

In a concerted effort to help customers and partners with deployment of Office 2010, Microsoft launched an Office 2010 application compatibility program with tools and guidance available for immediate download.[22] On 5 February 2010, the official release candidate build, build 4734.1000, was available to Connect and MSDN testers. It was leaked to torrent sites.[23] A few days after, the RTM Escrow build was leaked.

Microsoft announced the RTM on April 15, 2010 and that the final version was to have speech technologies for use with text to speech in Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Word. Office 2010 was to be originally released to business customers on May 12, 2010.[24] Business customers with Software Assurance were able to get it since April 27, 2010 and other Volume Licensing customers were able to get it since May 1.[25] MSDN and TechNet subscribers have been able to download the RTM version since April 22, 2010. The RTM version number was 14.0.4760.1000.

On June 15, 2010, Office 2010 was released to retail customers.

New features and Improvements

Screenshot Microsoft Word 2010 on Windows 7
Excel 2010
PowerPoint 2010
OneNote 2010
Backstage is a new feature to Office 2010, providing document overview and options

Office 2010 is more "role-based" than previous versions.[6] There are features tailored to employees in "roles such as research and development professionals, sales persons, and human resources." Borrowing from ideas termed "Web 2.0" when implemented on the Internet, Microsoft incorporated features of SharePoint Server in Office 2010.[26]

Microsoft Office 2010 includes updated support for ISO/IEC 29500:2008, the International Standard version of Office Open XML (OOXML) file format.[4] Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.[27] In its pre-release (beta) form, however, Office 2010 only supported the Transitional variant, and not the Strict.[28][29] The intent of the ISO/IEC is to allow the removal of the Transitional variant from the ISO/IEC compliant version of the OOXML standard.[29] Microsoft Office 2010 supports OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.1, which is an OASIS standard.[4]

New features also include a built-in screen capture tool, a background removal tool, a protected document mode, new SmartArt templates and author permissions. The 2007 "Office Button" was replaced with a menu button that leads to a full-window file menu, known as Backstage View, giving easy access to task-centered functions such as printing and sharing. A notable accessibility regression from 2007 is that the menu button no longer follows Fitts's law. A modified Ribbon interface is present in all Office applications, including Office Outlook, Visio, OneNote, Project, and Publisher. Office applications also have functional jumplists in Windows 7, which would allow easy access to recent items and tasks relevant to the application.[5][30][31] Features of Office 2010 include:

A new feature in Microsoft Office 2010 is the Social Connector. This allows users to write emails while keeping track of their family, friends, and colleagues by viewing status updates and past communication history with the individual. When users view their emails a name, picture, and title is available for the person they are contacting. Upcoming appointments can also be viewed with this new feature and users can request friends. The Social Connector does not work with Office x64 bit versions and Microsoft suggests to use the 32 bit products on their official forums and support. Sync features for Windows Mobile phones like email, contacts and other integration will also not work with x64 versions of Office 2010. There is no information if the final releases coming up in a few days will patch this feature. To date, many features and integrations are missing from the x64 version of Office 2010.

Removed features

The following features are removed from Microsoft Office 2010.

Removed from the entire suite
Features removed from Microsoft Word
Features removed from Microsoft Access
Features removed from Microsoft Outlook
Features removed from Microsoft PowerPoint
Features removed from Microsoft Publisher

Editions

Starter Edition

Office Starter 2010 is an ad-supported product which includes Microsoft Word Starter 2010 and Microsoft Excel Starter 2010. These are reduced-functionality versions for viewing, editing, and creating documents. Office Starter 2010 is only available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for preloading on Windows PCs and is intended to replace Microsoft Works. The advertisements are displayed in the lower right area of the task pane. Users who have Office Starter preinstalled are allowed to load it on a USB drive and run it temporarily on any computer to which the USB drive is connected.[39][40]

Office Starter 2010 is available to OEMs for pre-loading on new computers as part of the Office 2010 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK). It installs as a virtual application using Microsoft App-V application virtualization technology [41] and can therefore co-exist with full editions of Office. Office Starter 2010 omits several features available only in the full paid version of Microsoft Office. Specifically, it lacks the following features:

Office Web Apps

Microsoft now offers a free web-based version of its Office productivity suite, known as Office Web Apps, that started shortly before Office 2010 was released to retail stores.[42] Office Web Apps include online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The web apps allow sharing and collaboration of documents and files and also feature user interfaces similar to their desktop counterparts. Office Web Apps were released to Windows Live Skydrive and SharePoint Workspace on June 2010. You may use the free web-based version of Office to create documents, and can download Office Viewers to view the documents on your system.

Office Mobile 2010

The office suite for Windows Mobile by Microsoft is updated together with Office 2010. Windows Mobile 6.5 is required to run Office Mobile 2010. New features include:[43]

An upgrade for existing Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones is provided via Windows Mobile Marketplace, a beta version is already available.

To this date, the Office 2010 64-bit version (x64) cannot synchronize data with Windows Mobile phones, including emails, contacts or the integration with other products like OneNote. Microsoft confirmed that Windows Mobile phones will only work with Office 2010 32-bit (x86) on the final release as well.

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Comparison

Table of Editions[44]
Programs and Features Starter Home and Student Home and Business Standard Professional Professional Academic Professional Plus
Licensing OEM Retail Retail Retail (MSDN, TechNet only),[45] Volume Retail Academic Retail (MSDN, TechNet only),[45] Volume
Word Starter edition Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Excel Starter edition Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PowerPoint No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OneNote No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Outlook No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Publisher No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access No No No No Yes Yes Yes
Communicator No No No No No No Yes
InfoPath No No No No No No Yes
SharePoint Workspace (Groove) No No No No No No Yes
Office Customization Tool (OCT) 2 [46] No No No Volume edition only No No Volume edition only

Remarks:

Mac edition

Microsoft has announced that the Mac OS X version will also be released in 2010 for Intel Macs only. Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac will include more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. The interface is now similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows (with the ribbon). A new version of Outlook with full Exchange support will return to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and replace Entourage; however, Microsoft announced at WWDC 2010 that it will only be a 32bit application.[47], and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA, aka "macro" support) will return after being dropped in Office 2008.[48][49] There is no public beta for the Mac version;[50] however, many copies of the different Beta versions have been circulated among many Mac file sharing websites.[51]

Beta 3 was announced on May 25, 2010.[52]

Beta 4 (14.0.0.100526) is currently out and is in a near finished form.

Beta 5 (14.0.0.100709) was leaked and irons out many bugs found in earlier versions.

Beta 6 (14.0.0.100802) More compatible, aiming to open documents correctly on Mac. Unfortunately there is no support for Online Archives, which is a feature of Exchange Server 2010.

Final Release will be available in late October 2010.[53]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "Language identifiers and OptionState Id values in Office 2010". Microsoft. 2010-05-12. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179219.aspx. Retrieved 2010-08-16. 
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  20. ↑ [1]
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  28. ↑ ISO OOXML convener: Microsoft's format "heading for failure"
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Microsoft Fails the Standards Test
  30. ↑ Office 2010: New Features
  31. ↑ Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007
  32. ↑ Changes in Office 2010: What's removed
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  34. ↑ Smart Tags Overview
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  36. ↑ Outlook 2010 Changes
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