Yesterday we presented Office 2010, the Technical Preview version, at the Worldwide Partner Conference. You will likely have seen or heard bits and pieces on that by now.
I just spent an hour reading up on Office 2010 and watched some videos. Exciting stuff, it is going to be so easy to create documents that are both beautiful and smart. And we can work on these together, at the same time, from different locations.
If you would like to see the new features and capabilities, this is the place I recommend right now; it has short but very exciting videos that show what office life will look like in just a few months from now. Team up with colleagues and work simultaneously in Word, analyze data in Excel with Slicers or ask Excel for quick (visual) trends. PowerPoint now edits and runs video and allows you to broadcast your presentation to someone’s browser. Check out Outlook’s new Quick Steps or the way it organizes and manages your inbox. Last but not least, the announcement that we’ll offer free Office Web Applications received a lot of coverage, have a look at the video to see what these will look like.