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The New Office 2010 Logo

Nov. 16, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Microsoft today made Office 2010 Beta 2 available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. (Thanks to Mary Jo Foley for the heads-up.)

Here's a peek at the new Office 2010 logo.

My overview of the beta--which will be made available publicly at some point--will be up later in the week according to the schedule I agreed to with Microsoft. I assume that NDA is still in effect.

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rr0de74@live.com
on Nov 16, 2009
Downloading now at 700k must be the max as we have a full T3.
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on Nov 16, 2009
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Andreas J
on Nov 16, 2009
@rr0de74 Lucky... max i can get is 128k... Anyway, i'll have to get used to the new logo, but i think i'm gonna like it!
NoNameAtAll
on Nov 16, 2009
Max for me is around 350k. Not bad. Guess I'll be testing it in a virtual machine, as I think I'd have to uninstall Office 2007 (For the 64-bit version of Office 2010.)
MattJames
on Nov 16, 2009
Has the slightly altered version of Myriad always been a Microsoft Office logo typeface?
techman.merb
on Nov 16, 2009
Downloading now. Speed bouncing around between 150 and 250k but rising. Can't wait to give this a run.
phh
on Nov 16, 2009
It's not Myriad, it's Segoe, Microsoft's corporate typeface since around 2006. Both Segoe and Myriad owe a lot more to Frutiger (http://www.linotype.com/1122/frutiger.html) than either Microsoft or Adobe would care to admit.
rr0de74@live.com
on Nov 16, 2009
Ok its up. Took about 30 min to upgrade my 2007 install. Its got a less shiny look to it, but Outlook looks a little more "busy". The thread view is on by default which took a second to get used to.
lotsamystuff
on Nov 16, 2009
Need to identify a type face? There's an app for that: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/iPhone/
planetarian
on Nov 16, 2009
speeding along at just under 500 KB/s. not bad.
MattJames
on Nov 16, 2009
@phh Thank you. And you are absolutely right, Myriad and Segoe seem to have taken many cues from Frutiger.
robertsjoe
on Nov 16, 2009
Office is dying. It get less and less relevant by the day.
htalvitie
on Nov 16, 2009
Downloading from MSDN (30 mins and counting), but hesitant to upgrade since my Outlook 2007 depends on Google Apps Sync. Wouldn't use this for daily work, anyway. Still curious. Any experience or refs re compatibility with older add-ons & extensibility APIs in the upcoming Outlook 2010? Oh well, have to test it out myself. I should have a suitable VM somewhere on my disk for testing how / if the Google Exchange-clone-thingy fails with 2010. Surely it can't work... ;)
NoNameAtAll
on Nov 16, 2009
robertsjoe said: "Office is dying. It get less and less relevant by the day." Definitely not true in the corporate world.
redunion1940
on Nov 16, 2009
Not true in the Student, coroporate, home business user. Given a choice between Open Office or Microsoft Office, I'd choose MS Office It is just better, but OOG is pretty good, and is helped by its price $0, but I can not in all honesty say Open Office is better than MS Office. And as for the cloud, who cares, I'm a local user.
rr0de74@live.com
on Nov 16, 2009
I had to reboot for my install, odd. To blow off Open Office is a mistake. I know lots of small businesses still on Office 2003, with Zero plans to upgrade. They use maybe 10% of Office 2003. I think the current version of OO 3.1 is every bit as good as Office 2003. If the next version is better then I could see these small companies moving off of Office for cost savings alone. Just using Outlook 2010 today for a very short while, there is even more that my users WONT use. There is all of this collaboration stuff at the bottom that just muddles up the screen and if you are not using Sharepoint and all of that its overkill. Now you might be able to remove that but if you can.....uggg. There are just so many alternatives today to actually purchasing a new version of MS Office, to soon include Office Web, Google Docs, Zoho, and OO. Heck Word Pad in Windows 7 is a good enough word processor for 90% of the people I know.
techfan
on Nov 16, 2009
I like the new logo and I'm really looking forward to downloading Office 2010 beta. Word 2010 is THE product in the suit I can't wait to get my hands on. I'm guessing your review of Office 2010 will be posted sometime on Wednesday? :-D Can't wait to read it!
whiplash55
on Nov 16, 2009
I hear good things about the 64 bit version of Office 2010. Open Office has been a dog, maybe its good enough for some people but I hate it after using it for a few years. Of course compared to Google Docs even Open Office looks good. I use mostly the Home/Student version of Office, it frequently can be had for well under $100. I bought 2007 for $70 and it can be used on 3 PCs at a time. For $23 and change per computer I'll take Office any day over some mediocre prgram. Its well worth it to me.
whiplash55
on Nov 16, 2009
I hear good things about the 64 bit version of Office 2010. Open Office has been a dog, maybe its good enough for some people but I hate it after using it for a few years. Of course compared to Google Docs even Open Office looks good. I use mostly the Home/Student version of Office, it frequently can be had for well under $100. I bought 2007 for $70 and it can be used on 3 PCs at a time. For $23 and change per computer I'll take Office any day over some mediocre prgram. Its well worth it to me.
whiplash55
on Nov 16, 2009
I hear good things about the 64 bit version of Office 2010. Open Office has been a dog, maybe its good enough for some people but I hate it after using it for a few years. Of course compared to Google Docs even Open Office looks good. I use mostly the Home/Student version of Office, it frequently can be had for well under $100. I bought 2007 for $70 and it can be used on 3 PCs at a time. For $23 and change per computer I'll take Office any day over some mediocre prgram. Its well worth it to me.
redunion1940
on Nov 16, 2009
I'm not blowing it off, it is just MS Office is better than all the other products and if OOG is now to the level of Office 2003, which I still think it is between XP and 2003, but lets just say 2003, then it is still 6 years behind, so. I have Ubuntu on 17 Gigs on my 500 Gig HDD and it is the main word processor on there, so I deal with it, but I use ubuntu about less than 1% of the time primarily because I just like to see what Ubuntu is like, and while it is good, Win 7 is better, though not in price and pure performance 0$ vs the $30 I spent 500 GB of ram vs 890 GB of ram
htalvitie
on Nov 16, 2009
Upgraded my Outlook 2007 -> 2010, Google Apps Sync still works. Nice! :) Looks like they haven't broken the MAPI structures.
Waethorn
on Nov 17, 2009
"500 GB of ram vs 890 GB of ram" What? Are you running Firefox 2.0 on that?
redunion1940
on Nov 17, 2009
Sorry I misreported, I wish I had that much ram 500 MB and 890 MB haha, well there was a slight mess up there. I think Ubuntu just uses more since I have 4 GB of ram to offer.

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