New features in Office 2010

I’ve got a short write-up I’ve been working on about the Office 2010 Tech Preview leak (see my screenshot galleries for more) but, what the heck, it’s the long weekend and I’m up in Vermont with my wife, recouping from my marathon jam session getting Windows 7 Secrets done. So here’s another look at what’s new in Office 2010 to tide you over. It’s a good one:

I had a feeling that 2010 wasn’t going to be an upgrade to Office like what Windows 7 is to the Windows family. Having said that, Office 2010 Technical Preview does show some promising upgrades. In between giving my exams I did find some time to play around with the leaked version of Office 2010 & found some improvements over Office 2007. One of the biggest additions to Office 2010 will be it’s online collaboration capabilities. Here are some noticeable improvements in the technical Preview build:

1. Built-In Screen Capture Tool

2. Background Removal Tool

3. Protected Mode

4. New Smart Art Templates

5. Author Permissions

6. Completely Revamped Options Under the Office Button

8. Jumplists in Outlook 2010

Check out the blog post for screenshots and more discussion. I’ll post something more about Office 2010 later in the week. In the meantime, back to that latte…

Thanks to Dmitry for the link.

Discuss this Article 6

DRWAM
on May 24, 2009
MS Office. Never leave home without it! I wouldn't Exchange it for the world. Get it? "Exchange". It's my tether to work and home.
resplendent
on May 24, 2009
Can't say any of those are really "must-have" features for me. Aside from the Ribbon (which I like) being included in more of the applications, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to upgrade.
robertsjoe
on May 24, 2009
No one but enterprise cares about this. Otherwise, the office is moving to the cloud.
robertsjoe
on May 24, 2009
robertsjoe
on May 24, 2009
robertsjoe
on May 24, 2009
Bing is the new Microsoft search engine. Another dumb Microsoft product name.

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