This window also leads you to menus for application-specific options. Instead, clicking on the File tab now brings up a new window (called Backstage view) with a slew of options for creating, saving, sharing, and printing, as well as for accessing recent versions of the current document–or easily opening others via a handy list of recent documents.
Gone is the big and somewhat ungainly Office button that appeared in the upper-left of each window. Overall, the suite’s look is more consistent from one app to another–and more subdued than its predecessor, primarily because Microsoft opted for a palette of mostly grey and white, versus the sky blue of Office 2007.
Improved customization features for the ribbon interface, which premiered in the key Office 2007 programs and is now present suitewide, could mollify some of the ribbon’s many critics: You can now assemble the commands you use most frequently–regardless of where they normally reside–in tabs and groups of your own creation. Some of the new features should impress even jaded Office users PowerPoint’s Broadcast Slide Show function, which lets you show a presentation remotely to anyone who has a Web browser, heads the list. In general, the shipping version of the suite isn’t much different from the Office 2010 beta we wrote about last year. In fact, they’re not intended to: Microsoft has clearly stated that it created Office Web Apps as companions to, rather than replacements for, their desktop counterparts. For businesses that wish to host their own Office Web Apps privately, Microsoft will also offer SharePoint versions of the online suite.īut while Office Web Apps enable at least minimal collaboration–and while they shine at maintaining document formatting that competing, third-party Web-based apps tend to mangle–they’re unlikely to bowl over anyone who has enjoyed the rich features in Google Docs, Zoho Office, and various other Web-based productivity tools (see “ Microsoft’s Web Apps: Easy Access and Limited Functionality“).
HOW MUCH IS MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE 2010 WINDOWS
The most immediately visible innovation in the new suite is a set of Web-based applications–online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote–slated to appear on Windows Live when the desktop editions ship in June. Nevertheless, with Office 2010, Microsoft continues to refine the dramatic overhaul that it began with the 2007 editions, while adding a few nifty new features with marquee appeal–all at prices much lower than we saw for similar Office 2007 packages. Illustration: Keith NegleyEveryone is still reeling from the recession, and cash is tight–not, perhaps, the best time for Microsoft to launch a new version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite.
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