First Images of Microsoft Office 2010 and Office Web Apps
Microsoft offers free access to people from the Windows Live versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Although Microsoft maintains its position simplistic face to face and productivity applications to Google Apps online, however, are common. The loose web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2010, compared to thick client versions, is free for the individual and the user will only have access to Windows Live. As for access, can be run from a PC or Smartphone (Windows Mobile and iPhone / iPod touch) through a Web browser: optional, Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari. Microsoft seems to favor the first three browsers in terms of market share. In terms of future compatibility with Google Chrome, the publisher prefers to avoid. As for the thick client versions of Office 2010, ensures that the applications of Microsoft Office Web will support OpenXML and ODF standard 1 1, the format will be presented by the publisher. Standards support, may increase the criticism, as with Office 2007 SP2. The OpenDocument Format Alliance has referred in particular to limit the presence of errors to incorporate interoperability between applications support for ODF. A beta version of Office 2010 Web is in the month of August. The official launch is planned for the first half of 2010. For storing files of Office, users have free space, 25 GB Microsoft SkyDrive service. In fact, Office 2010 will open the possibility of license, without charge, access to applications on the desktop, Web browser or mobile phone. But companies can also choose, instead, to purchase Office 2010 licenses to subscribe to a hosted offering. Office Web applications are on the support of Microsoft Online Services has started in March. Introduced the Ribbon in Office 2007, is now widely used (integrated SharePoint). In addition, ergonomic problem is the fact the publisher to add collaboration features. Another new feature is a contextual spelling, mistakes can be identified. Main features of Excel 2010 has the honor of the company Microsoft, the sparklines "" the ability for users to convert data into graphical trend in a cell. As for PowerPoint 2010, which now includes video support, including video codec, H. 264 and MPEG-4. Videos can be addressed in the application as an image. To facilitate the use of Outlook, including the facilitation of research, Microsoft has added to the compression of messages. Thus, all messages on the same topic in the context are grouped together. Gmail users are already familiar with this feature. Microsoft also has the taskbar fast, customizable, with the creation of a menu where you can easily new buttons for the action.
