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Thanks to advancements in application virtualization technology, you’ll have the option to run the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 without the need to wait for installation, even if you have previous versions of Microsoft Office already installed.
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When you open presentations downloaded from the Internet in PowerPoint 2010, you’ll enter into the new Protected View . While in this mode, PowerPoint runs in a “sandbox,” which means that you are now better isolated from any malicious code that could
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Welcome to the 21st century. Computers are omnipresent. The extent of your audience is no longer constrained to a single conference room or the space just over your left shoulder. Whether you are sharing the videos from your recent trip
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It’s not always effective to show an entire video from start to finish. The interesting parts are usually sandwiched between lots of walking, talking, sleeping, or otherwise unrelated content. In PowerPoint 2010, you get to choose exactly what to share
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One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing
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Here on the PowerPoint team, we’re always open to great suggestions for new features from our customers. Last week, the intrepid journalists at the The Onion delivered . Here are some of the highlights: Wow Factor Added To Corporate Presentation July
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When it comes to engineering good software, your security is one of our highest priorities. To learn more about the measures we’ve taken to prevent hackers from attacking your computer, check out this post from the Office 2010 Engineering blog . Here’s
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Late last year, the world found out for sure that Microsoft was investing in bringing Office apps to the web (though smart observers have been guessing that we are for a lot longer than that). Last week, we provided some more insight into how these Web
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If you’re an Office 2007 user you should just go download SP2, install it and enjoy. However, if you want to understand the goodness that comes with SP2, read on… OK, so what’s a “Service Pack?” Once a product makes it out into “the
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We learn best by examples. And the better the example, the better the results. That’s why its a pleasure to point you to a new group of PowerPoint examples that are stunning, inventive, evocative… simply beautiful. Nice enough if it stops
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Hey everyone, my name is Allen Huang, and I’m one of the Program Managers that works on multimedia in PowerPoint. Although we’re busy working on the next version of PowerPoint, I wanted to take some time to share with you a neat trick I’ve learned in
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It does seem like we've been featuring a lot of material on Microsoft interns lately , but this one is a little different. Hope you'll agree and enjoy one last post in the series. Kris Jordan recently interned with the Microsoft Visual Studio team.
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Some quick notes about three special events of interest to PowerPoint users. Slideshare's 2nd Annual Best Presentation Contest Winner The results of Slideshare's 2nd annual presentation contest are in, and the winner is Jeff Brenman's Thirst , a compelling
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With so much new in this release of Office, its easy to overlook some of the less-earth-shattering-yet-still-cool-goodness we've baked in for you. This is a series of short posts highlighting a few of these unsung heroes, things to try out in the beta
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