Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010.
Consumers can now purchase Office 2010 at retail stores across the globe. Office 2010 can also be purchased with the popular desktops and laptops from leading PC makers including Acer, Asus, Dell , HP, Lenovo, Samsung and Sony. In the next year, more than 100 million PCs will ship with Office 2010 preloaded, which can be activated with the purchase of any one of the three versions of Office 2010, including Office Home and Student 2010, Office Home and Business 2010, or Office Professional 2010.
Throughout its development cycle, customer feedback has been critical to the improvements found in Office 2010. Based on this input, Microsoft has made enhancements to help users do the following:
- Create great-looking documents and presentations. Express creativity in PowerPoint 2010 presentations with new video and photo editing features. Add extensive text effects and table formatting options in Word 2010. Reveal important trends in data with Sparklines in Excel 2010. OneNote 2010 makes everything you need simple to find, organize and share.
- Connect and work together more simply. Advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Outlook 2010 and the new Outlook Social Connector help people stay productive and in touch with personal and business networks. Work with others more efficiently using new co-authoring in Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote 2010. Deliver presentations over the Web with new PowerPoint Broadcast Slideshow.
- Get things done from virtually anywhere. With Office 2010 and the Office Web Apps ? the online companions to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote ? people have the freedom to save documents directly from Office 2010 to Windows Live SkyDrive, then view, edit and share those documents in the cloud. The Office Web Apps preserve the look and feel of Office documents, so valuable content and formatting are not compromised while moving between the PC, phone and browser
- Office Mobile 2010 also is available from Windows Phone Marketplace for all Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. People using Office Mobile 2010 can perform lightweight editing of Office documents and take notes on the go, or work on Office documents stored on their phone or attached to an e-mail.
Today, Office 2010 is available in 10 languages and will expand to 94 languages.