Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 BETA is now out as a free download. Anyone can go and get it for free to try it out. You can download it here.

As for some of the new features, I think they look fairly impressive. Some key ones include:


#1. Save Office Documents to the Cloud

With Microsoft Office 2010, you can directly upload documents to your Windows Live SkyDrive account and access them from any other computer. SkyDrive provides 25 GB of free online storage and, since the service is integrated with Office Web Apps, you can view and edit these documents anywhere in the web browser without requiring Microsoft Office (even on a Mac).


#2. Embed Web Videos in your Presentations

With Office 2010, you can easily embed video clips from the Internet into your PowerPoint presentations just the way you embed Flash videos in regular web pages. Just copy the embed code from YouTube (or any other video sharing site) and paste it anywhere on the slide.


#3. Quick Steps in Outlook

With the new Quick Steps feature in Outlook, you can create a sequence of commands (Send & Archive is just one example) and apply them to any Outlook item with a click. For instance, here’s a quick step for "Send and Delete" which would delete the email from your inbox after you’ve replied.


#4. Built-in PDF Writer

All Office 2010 programs include a built-in PDF writer to help you save documents into the PDF format with a click. Earlier, you had to download an add-on separately but now PDF support is native.


#5. Document printing made simple!

With Office 2010, Microsoft has completely revamped the print dialog and it’s a tremendous improvement. For instance, you can tweak printer settings (like page margins, etc.) and preview the changes side-by-side.


#6. Broadcast Slideshows within PowerPoint

You can deliver live presentations over the web from within PowerPoint and anyone in the world can view your presentation using a web browser. Awesome stuff.


#7. Video Editing meets PowerPoint

Do you want to trim some parts of a video clip before using it in your presentation? Or do you want to apply professional styles to a video (like reflection coupled with 3D rotation) so that your audience stay glued longer? Well, that’s easy because PowerPoint 2010 now includes some very powerful video editing features.


#8. Distribute your slides as video

PowerPoint 2010 can convert your presentation into a video file that you may upload on to YouTube or distribute on a portable media player like the iPod. This was doable with Apple's Keynote for ages. Powerpoint finally catches up.

This is awesome im looking forward to the embedded video system that this office applies. It will work great on presentations. I will be downloading this and thanks for sharing :)

Remember that you will need Office 2010 on the computer you're presenting on, or else the embedded video will not work.

microsoft office free ?? SWEET better get it b4 no more XD

The BETA won't last forever though. Keep that in mind.

Ooh lala!

that seems like nice specs!
I must try it out now!
:3

The 64-bit version flies. ^^

Might get it, really glad about #'s 2, 4, and 8.

Why think about it? Just grab it. It's free, and I've been running the 64-bit version for a whole day on Windows 7 without any crashes. Seems pretty stable for a BETA.

Faster than my 32-bit Office 2007, for sure.

Meh, your right. I'll sacrifice my precious HDD space for it. Too good to pass up.

lol, it's only like a few hundred megs bigger than '07. One 720p anime episode.

Looks cool! I hope they lessen the machine chugging that Office 2007 has.

For me, 2010 is significantly faster.

Then again, I was using 2007 in 32-bit...

You got a point on the 32-bit..

testin' it

Fuck! More bloat. More features that all the 'tards out there will slober over.
Meanwhile people who actually need to make documents - and those who care about typesetting - will gnash their teeth as they'll be forced to adopt another idiosyncratic version once again without what they need.

(Mature document formatting is either inline markup or style-sheet driven. Guess what? Microsoft Word does both and it does them badly, allowing users to override paragraph styles with local inline markup (or, indeed, to drop styles on top of marked-up text).

Check here for real tools.

I can't seem to install it, M$ seems to have forgotten the Linux version? :P

They forgot every other time as well. Everyone knows well that Microsoft has terrible cross-platform support. Too bad OpenOffice lacks a few features that MS Office has, like citation support, tracking document changes, and a plethora of other things that I never use.

But I have a bug (so do many others) with my 2010 Beta where it requires me to 'configure' 2010 over and over again every time I start it. It takes a good minute or two of waiting until I am able to use Word.

Any come up with a solution to this issue?

BTW, How you get teh 64bit version? I couldn't find any other dl link when i was searching for a 64bit dl ling nor find an option to install 64bit one.

Was just wondering.

I like still 2003 the most; it's so simple and doesn't take as much space as 2007
s and 2010's ribbon bar or w/e it is called.

The saving to PDF seems to be a nice option thou for what i have quickly looked up. Haven't been playing much with it.

Good, now they just need to fix powerpoint so its in the same league as Keynote. I grew up on powerpoint, but Keynote is just leagues ahead in making presentations not suck. Can't have them pay attention to what you are saying if your slides bore them to sleep.

The other stuff in Iworks aren't really up to par to Office, but Keynote simplicity and functionality would be appreciated in Office.