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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 00:00 |
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Microsoft finally brought Office 2010 out of a 5 month beta, which saw 8 million users testing it. Office 2010 includes MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. Although there aren't any groundbreaking changes over Office 2010 - Office 2010 retains the ribbon task bar from Office 2007 which didn't prove to be much of a success. But it brings certain cool features which reflects a great need to collaborate amongst teams of today. One of these features is real time "co authoring" which lets users to work together on the same document and "merge" changes. But one of the most looked out for aspects of Office 2010 is Office Web Apps - the web version of MS office documents. Office Web Apps were launched in obvious response to the growing importance of GoogleDocs in the business market. Users can access, edit and collaborate on documents right from their browser. Office Web Apps, which are expected to come soon, will be available to consumers for free through their SkyDrive accounts. For business users, there are two options, either they can access Office Web Apps through a server based install of SharePoint 2010, or through their subscription of Office Live Services. Should you upgrade or not? That is a question which calls for a detailed analysis in itself. For now, if you don;t want to upgrade, theres no need to worry, you can use an online document management system to collaborate on Office 2007, 2003 or 2000 files.
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