Microsoft on Tuesday took the beta tags off its latest office suite and formally unveiled Office 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010.
The product is now available at 35,000 retail stores like Best Buy or online at Amazon.com, and can also be purchased pre-loaded on a variety of PCs.
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“Working with major retail partners and PC makers, we’ve made dramatic changes in the way we deliver Office 2010 to give consumers more buying choice, making it easier than ever to unlock the power of Office on new and existing PCs,” Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business Division, said in a statement. “For the first time, people can purchase a Product Key Card at retail to activate Office 2010 preloaded on new PCs. For those who want to download Office 2010 direct from Office.com for an existing PC, the new Click-to-Run technology will have them up and running in a matter of minutes.”
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Added features include new video and editing options in PowerPoint, updated text effects and table formatting in Word, advanced e-mail management and calendaring options in Outlook, co-authoring options in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote, and a Web-based option via Office Web Apps.
Microsoft released Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for users in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, and Canada last week. It is available on office.live.com, where users can view, edit, and share Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote documents from the browser. For more, read PCMag’s full review of Microsoft Office Web Apps.
Office 2010 is being released in 10 languages, which will eventually expand to 94.
How much will it set you back? Office Home and Student 2010 – which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote – will cost $149.99. Office Home and Business, which also includes Outlook, will retail for $279.99. Office Professional 2010, meanwhile, which also incorporates Publisher and Access, will cost $499.99.
You can opt to download the program directly to your PC, download and purchase a backup disc for $14.95, or purchase the physical software.
Microsoft released a beta version of Office 2010 in late 2009, and that program has since been downloaded more than 9 million times, the company said Tuesday. That’s more than six times the size of the 2007 Microsoft Office beta release.
“Following the great response to the Office 2010 beta and the success of Windows 7, we predict this will be the biggest consumer release of Office, ever,” Elop said.
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