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Office 2010 tech preview roundup

What a week! At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Stephen Elop demonstrated Office 2010 for the first time and the feedback I have heard from people I talk to is “GIMME NOW”.

Technical Preview is essentially a pre-beta engineering milestone – very interesting to developers and IT Professionals managing complex environments, but much like a house that is almost finished, it may not be a comfortable as a full release.

But, if you are reading this blog, you probably spend more time with Office than you do with your own loved ones – so the evolution of such an important product is kind of a Big Deal. Here is a fairly comprehensive list of information to get up to speed on 2010.

Proper published information:

Blogs, Blogs, Blogs:

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog – includes a really good post about the “Backstage” view, and how it is a continuation of the UX decisions of Office 2007.
  • Daniel Escapa’s OneNote blog – perhaps the best place to go to find technical information on OneNote 2010
  • Microsoft SharePoint Team blog – for some details on the SharePoint strategy. I’m sure there will be much more at this years SharePoint Conference.
  • Excel Team blog – discusses some of the new performance investments and something that I am very excited by, “Project Gemini”
  • Outlook Team blog – I am quite excited about the little things in Outlook – being able to see a calendar snapshot before I accept a meeting request, ignore a rambling reply-all storm and quicksteps will all save me a little bit of time every day, which will add up to a lot of my year.
  • PowerPoint Team blog – good showcase of all the new transitions in PowerPoint and a hint of a new powerpoint viewer :).
  • Word Team blog – multiediting – when I was at school, we called this cheating. Now, we call it collaboration!
  • InfoPath Team blog – InfoPath 2010 is shaping up to be a very solid release for the little form engine that could. Picture Buttons, Quick Rules, Quick Publishing, Mashups and a First Class People Picker!!!

Documentation and Specifications:

For the alpha-developers out there, this documentation will be also very useful for you.

Published Friday, July 17, 2009 12:04 AM by alspeirs
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# re: Office 2010 tech preview roundup

Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:38 PM by boe_d@hotmail.com

Nothing beneficial for most businesses - no reason to upgrade/purchase -

Like Vista  - all bling - no function.

If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have -

1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers.

2. Full OLE support for pictures in access - umm wasn't that functional with Office XP - why take that out?   Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database?  Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code.   Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution?

3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don't want to learn the new menu bar.   You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar.  Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I'm one person and most of my clients don't like it so prefer to stick with office 2003.  MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.

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