Tech Ed: ICT workers given peek into Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft reveals some Office 2010 capabilities, remains tight-lipped on others.
James Heffield | Wednesday, September 16 2009Microsoft gave kiwi IT workers and developers a sneak peek into what Microsoft Office 2010 will offer at a Tech Ed presentation in Auckland yesterday.
The three-day Tech Ed convention, concluding today, gives industry professionals and potential buyers the chance to swot up on the latest Microsoft software, products and ideas.
Microsoft solutions specialist Jonathan Stuckey told the crowd at the event’s Futures: Office 2010 presentation that the new version of Office would provide “a whole lot of new capabilities” to improve productivity and increase individuals abilities to collaborate with others.
He revealed that Microsoft Word had been modified to allow multiple people to edit a single document simultaneously. Users would also be able to lock sections of an article while it was being edited and track who had changed specific content, providing the editor’s email and phone contact details in a popup box so they were easily contactable.
Powerpoint users would be able to harness new transition effects between presentation slides and Excel would have new graphical effect options to display data trends, he said.
Other improvements would include expanded unified communications features in Office Communicator 2010 and software design changes to ensure all applications could work effectively with office virtualisation programmes.
Many of the applications previously only available in enterprise SKUs of Office, like OneNote, would ship with the standard version, Stuckey said.
He remained tight-lipped on many of the suite’s other applications and capabilities, but hinted that more would be said after a public beta test version was released in the next few months.
The release version of Microsoft Office 2010 is expected to hit retailers’ shelves in the first half of next year, he said.
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