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Office 2010 scheduled for June release
Microsoft has already said it hopes to deliver the final version of Office 2010 in the first half of next year, but the folks over at Neowin apparently have it on good authority that the software giant is right on track for a June launch. As many as six different flavors will be offered to customers, including the limited-functionality Starter edition, which will feature free, ad-supported versions of Word and Excel.
Microsoft's latest productivity suite will also be offered in Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus editions. No official pricing for the full or upgrade versions of Office 2010 has been announced yet. Additionally the company will make Office Web freely available to anyone with a Live account, and plans to launch Office 2010 for Mac OS X sometime next year.
In the meantime, Windows users can get a glimpse at the suite's newest features by downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus beta here.
Microsoft's latest productivity suite will also be offered in Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus editions. No official pricing for the full or upgrade versions of Office 2010 has been announced yet. Additionally the company will make Office Web freely available to anyone with a Live account, and plans to launch Office 2010 for Mac OS X sometime next year.
In the meantime, Windows users can get a glimpse at the suite's newest features by downloading the Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus beta here.
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User Comments (41)
Post a comment| kibaruk on November 30, 2009 10:49 AM | Some friends are testing the beta of office 2010 and it looks nice, haven't played with it, nor seen any function differences, but it still looks nice. |
| Vrmithrax on November 30, 2009 11:03 AM | Lots of interesting new bells and whistles, for sure. I tinkered a bit, and found I like the layout and some of the command placements much better. I hated when they changed over (2007 version I think?) and moved everything around, it became a nightmare to hunt through and find some very simple and common commands. Looks like somebody was listening to some user feedback with the 2010 version. |
| kibaruk on November 30, 2009 11:17 AM | Vrmithrax said: This is just rejection to change,
and a lot of people has this. I found 2007 version quite a
charm, loved the whole icon placement making the taskbar go
away.Lots of interesting new bells and whistles, for sure. I tinkered a bit, and found I like the layout and some of the command placements much better. I hated when they changed over (2007 version I think?) and moved everything around, it became a nightmare to hunt through and find some very simple and common commands. Looks like somebody was listening to some user feedback with the 2010 version. It's just a matter of likes. |
| TorturedChaos on November 30, 2009 11:18 AM | I like the idea of an ad-supported versions of Word and Excel. I work in a print shop, and a lot of people bring in very obnoxious formats (I hate Broderbund and all their pain the butt Print Shop programs >_ |
| absolutgaloot on November 30, 2009 11:36 AM | I was not a fan of the change to the ribbon-style menu, far
too kludgey for me. It will be very interesting to see how
well they've changed it up. If it's anything like Win7 is to
Vista, I may end up surprised. Until then, however,
OpenOffice all the way 
|
| TorturedChaos on November 30, 2009 11:49 AM | TorturedChaos said: it cut off 1/2 my post for some
reason :P.I like the idea of an ad-supported versions of Word and Excel. I work in a print shop, and a lot of people bring in very obnoxious formats (I hate Broderbund and all their pain the butt Print Shop programs >_< ), but maybe with a free version of Word and Excel I can get more people to use that, and make it easier for us to open. |
| Moltar on November 30, 2009 12:07 PM | Office 2010 seems like a cross between the pre-2005 roll outs and the office 2007. Hopefully it is enough to keep both parties happy, the ones that liked 2007's ribbon layout and the ones that didn't care for it. |
| harby on November 30, 2009 12:07 PM | Actually I'm more excited about the free web-based version. |
| wcbert on November 30, 2009 12:16 PM | Microsoft Office is a dinosaur waiting to become extinct.
Most of my correspondence is using emails and on my Blackberry. I work for a large corporation, hardly use at work Word and use Excel for reports and graphs. I bought the last version of Office for my home PC and again many of the features I do not need or use. So it will be the last version. Even Outlook is getting old and I use it everyday. I find gmail can do what I need to do and it is free. I will not spend a dime anymore on MS Office. Bill |
| fada on November 30, 2009 12:21 PM | iv seen some videos of office 2010, it looks pretty cool! although lets be honest, 99% would still be happy using office 98! |
| rgdot on November 30, 2009 12:37 PM | If Open Office and the like keep improving it will be ever more challenging fro Office. I haven't been able to try the beta but from what I have seen or read MS might be in for very positive reviews ala Win7 |
| Puiu on November 30, 2009 12:41 PM | With so many versions i'm sure that people will be very confused about which one to buy. They made win7 simple enough, why not make office too? 6 versions is too much. 3 or 4 would have done the trick. |
| Styl on November 30, 2009 1:05 PM | I have Office 2007, but rarely have any use for it. Open Office is my #1 choice. Guess we'll have to wait and see what Office 2010 is like. |
| swilllx2p on November 30, 2009 1:08 PM | It's kind of funny to me because where I work we just now got the ok to roll out Office2k7. I wonder how many years it'll be until we actually begin putting Office 2010 to use. But I really wish we'd of just held off longer and put the money to office 2010 come summer. They should only release 2 versions imo, paid and ad-supported..nothing else. |
| Richy2k9 on November 30, 2009 1:30 PM | hello ... not bad, but i think this time i'll go with the live account free version  cheers! |
| mattfrompa on November 30, 2009 1:34 PM | I am getting really tired of Microsoft's "editions" of software. Technology is already complicated enough, and this kind of thing makes project planning that much more difficult, and poor decisions have yet another consequence. I don't think that there should be a single version by any means, but when paying for a piece of software that continually changes the way it's setup dramatically, it makes a full version free alternative that much more attractive. |
| drasho on November 30, 2009 1:49 PM | Looks pretty good, im using 2007 and i like the changes from 2003. I didnt use 2010 but it looks similar so ill probably like it =) |
| UglyChild on November 30, 2009 1:54 PM | Any price estimates yet?? |
| fref on November 30, 2009 2:01 PM | Once again, too many versions. The ad-supported version might be interesting, though, depending on how it's implemented. I personally don't mind seeing an ad once in a while if it doesn't cover half the screen. |
| Vrmithrax on November 30, 2009 2:31 PM | @kibaruk, very true about the reaction to change, it's hard
to go to something new when you've had years the old way
(the whole "teaching an old dog new tricks" addage,
perhaps). But some of the ways they buried common functions
when they did the big changeover just baffled me... And
baffled many users, you should have seen the uproar! heh.
It was a little bit like the ones in charge of the user
interface were only very light users, so the interface was
geared that way, but the real meat of the customer base for
Office tend to be more power users. In any event, the 2010 version really seems to have a good balance of ease of use and quick accessibility to power features. A nice package, which it has to be to make it worthy of the hefty pricetag usually associated with Office. So many groups I personally know are going to OpenOffice, I've got to wonder how widespread that is, and if it is a little worrisome for the Microsoft juggernaut. |
| Serag on November 30, 2009 3:00 PM | Good news, I hope the free web version is set to lunch in
the same time as well
|
| manintech on November 30, 2009 3:54 PM | Thanks to google, otherwise microsoft won't make a free web version |
| IvanAwfulitch on November 30, 2009 4:00 PM | ^^^^ I whole-heartedly agree. If it weren't for OpenOffice, Microsoft would still charge all of us out the butt for something like this. A suite like that would easily go for 100 bucks or more. When Google has started causing Microsoft heartache, you know that times have changed. |
| Timonius on November 30, 2009 5:46 PM | Microsoft, ONE version, ONE price! Are you listening?!? |
| BlackIrish on November 30, 2009 5:46 PM | I've tried some preview version that was available - it
worked good and looked better than Office 2007, but dunno if
it's worth the upgrade. The 2007 edition works just as good. |
