Microsoft Office 2010 Review In A Nutshell; Big News – Online Office Will Be FREE!

This time MS has come out with some really intriguing feature in Office! The big news is that Office 2010 (more info) will be over the clouds and you can have a ride on them for free (if you have Windows Live ID). Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions will be available and it will be released by 1st half of 2010 though a beta will be available by this year end.

Let’s get started

Word 2010 – will have a new “paste preview” option which will allow users to hover over different paste options and see the preview of their paste.

Web Version – will look almost similar to the desktop version and MS has named it ‘Document fidelity’.

Excel 2010 – Sparklines is the most creative upgrade in Office this time. This will allow users to view a visual snapshot image of a data trend over time within a particular cell.

Web Version - not comparable to desktop Excel and has limited features.

PowerPoint 2010 – This has graduated to totally new level with some real cool upgrades like Video and Image editing (simplified versions of iMovie and Photoshop probably).

Web Version – video editing is not included but most of the other features are.

Outlook 2010 – E-mails will appear in threads (of conversation).

Check out the Office 2010 Movie and this for loads of other videos.

Desktop version of 2010 will allow multiple people to work on same document with the help of so called co-authoring tools.

After this news Microsoft jumped by 2.7 percent to $23 (Nasdaq up 1.2 percent at 1777.50).

All the Office applications will run in Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer and MS is optimizing it for Chrome.

Office Online definately looks a lot better than Google docs. What say?