Microsoft Announces Office 2010 Highlights

July 14, 2009 · Filed Under News · Comment

Microsoft unveiled some of the highlights of its much awaited Office 2010 on Tuesday including details on the software’s free web version.

Microsoft Corp is scheduled to launch the Office 2010 sometime in the first half of next year. Office 2010 will be the successor to Microsoft’s current Office 2007 which runs only on Windows. The upgraded version of Office will include changes like better copy and paste functions in Word, video editing in PowerPoint, improved tools for data analysis in Excel as well as a more user-friendly “conversational” messaging function in Outlook. Along with these Microsoft also intends to cut down on the number of Office versions in the market. It will limit the eight different versions of Office 2007 currently available to just five versions of Office 2010 when the latter is launched in the market.

At the same news conference on Tuesday, Microsoft also announced that it will be launching certain simplified versions of its new Office suite on the web. Interestingly the web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote will run on browsers other than Windows Explorer too. Not only will the applications run on browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari but they will also run on any other PC or Mac.

Tags: Microsoft Corp, Office 2007, Office 2010