Microsoft also officially confirmed that the business launch for Office 2010 is on May 12. Consumers will not be able to purchase the product until June. In January Microsoft announced Office 2010 pricing. Office 2010 will be released in at least five different flavors, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will include Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Professional and Professional Academic.
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Microsoft Office 2010 will include updated support for the ISO/IEC compliant version of OOXML, which was standardized as ISO/IEC 29500:2008 in March 2008. The intent of the ISO/IEC is to allow the removal of the Transitional variant from the ISO/IEC compliant version of the OOXML standard.
New features are also said to include a built-in screen capture tool, a background removal tool, a protected document mode, new SmartArt templates and author permissions. Confirmed features of Office 2010 include:
• Refined Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications
• Background Removal Tool
• Letter Styling
• The Word 2007 Equation editor will become common to all applications, replacing MS Equation 3.0
• New SmartArt templates
• New text and image editing effects
• Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
• Live collaboration functions
• Jumplists in Windows 7
• New animations in Powerpoint 2010
Office Mobile 2010 Features include –
Presentation Companion
Conversation View
SharePoint Workspace Mobile
Support for new content in Office 2010
It is unknown if Microsoft will release an upgrade to Office 2010 for existing Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5.
