Microsoft starts technical preview of Microsoft Office 2010
14 Jul 2009
Microsoft Corp on Monday announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 had reached the technical preview engineering milestone.
Under the technical preview programme, announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft will invite thousands of people to test the Office and Visio.
"Office 2010 is the premier productivity solution across PCs, mobile phones and browsers," said Chris Capossela, senior vice president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft. "From broadcast and video editing in PowerPoint, new data visualisation capabilities in Excel, and co-authoring in Word, we are delivering technology to help people work smarter and faster from virtually any location using any device," he said.
Office 2010 and related products will deliver innovative capabilities and provide new levels of flexibility and choice that will help people:
o Work anywhere with Office Web applications - the lightweight Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote - that provide access to documents from virtually anywhere and preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device.
o Collaborate better with co-authoring in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote 2010, and advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft Outlook 2010, including the option for users to "ignore" unwanted threads.