Microsoft
Office 2010 is a worthy upgrade for businesses and individual users who
need professional-level productivity apps, but it will take some time to
get acclimated with the reworked interface. Users looking for
bare-bones, dead-simple office software should stick with Google's and
other online offerings or continue using older Office versions they have
already mastered.
The world has
changed plenty since Microsoft introduced Office 2007. In that time,
Google has become a major player, with its suite of online tools, and
even Apple has made inroads with its iWork office suite, though
admittedly within a smaller set of computer users. Even with the vast
user base of Microsoft Office products, with new competitors in the
market, Microsoft Office 2010 needed to be good. Playing catch-up and
looking forward simultaneously, Microsoft tries, in Office 2010, to
remain (or become) the central hub of your working life, letting you use
your PC, smartphone, and the Web to make your projects come together
more efficiently.
It's true:
every application in the suite has been improved and tweaked in an
effort to make your busy days more efficient, but you'll need to be
ready for a learning curve to get accustomed to Office 2010's changes.
This update
isn't for everyone; if you're a power user who has a specific way you
like to do things and want all the same functionality as an older
version of Microsoft Office, then you can probably get by on an older
version. Just like with Office 2007, however, Office 2003 or earlier
versions of the suite will need conversion tools to open many of the now
default Open XML file types. But if you are eager to try out new
time-saving features and are willing to spend some time learning where
everything is, we think you will appreciate this major update. Even new
users of productivity suites and students looking for a solid set of
productivity apps will benefit from the new features in Office 2010--and
surely the Academic license is more than reasonable for what you get.
Office 2010 is almost here
One of the
major new changes to the suite is the ability to collaborate and share
your work using Web apps. You can collaborate using Web apps over your
SkyDrive (25GB of available online storage) on Windows Live. You may
also be able to collaborate with a coworker using a slimmed down
Facebook-connected version of the Web apps, however, Microsoft
representatives explained to us that the Facebook-connected version we
saw in the company demo is only a pilot program to test social media
features. As is, having two ways to connect seems a bit confusing to us,
but we'll reserve judgment until the bugs are ironed out.
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