Microsoft Office is a really universal tool, and not much more could be said about it except that EVERYONE uses it. It's a key part of our lives in today's society for school and more!
Many people may not know that Microsoft actually announced Office 2010. "On April 15, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 will be officially released in the first half of 2010." Right now, there is actually a Microsoft Office 2010 beta, but I wouldn't recommend it now (unless you have 2 computers to work with) because you have to upgrade from 2007 to the 2010 beta. I would wait for the 2010 actual release to upgrade... ;*))
With the introduction of Office 2010, a 64-bit version of Office will be available for the first time, but only for Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit operating systems. Office 2010 is not supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Here's a video I found explaining the basics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYoZ5uSH1iU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYoZ5uSH1iU#)
Features
According to an article published in InfoWorld in April 2006, Office 2010 will be more "role-based" than previous versions. The article cites Simon Witts, corporate vice president for Microsoft's Enterprise and Partner Group, as claiming that there would be features tailored to employees in "roles such as research and development professionals, sales persons, and human resources." Borrowing from ideas termed "Web 2.0" when implemented on the Internet, it is likely that Microsoft will incorporate features of SharePoint Server in Office 2010.
Microsoft Office 2010 will implement the ISO/IEC compliant version of Office Open XML (OOXML) which was standardized as ISO/IEC 29500:2008 in March 2008, though will also have the option of implementing as a setting the ISO/IEC compliant version of OpenDocument Format (ODF) v1.1, beyond 1.0 which was standardized as ISO/IEC 26300:2006 in May 2006.
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. The 2007 "Office Button" will be replaced with a menu button that leads to a full-window file menu, known as Backstage View, giving easy access to task-centered functions such as printing and sharing. A refined Ribbon interface will be present in all Office applications, including Office Outlook, Visio, OneNote, Project and Publisher. Office applications will also have functional jumplists in Windows 7, which would allow easy access to recent items and tasks relevant to the application.
Confirmed Features Include:
* Background Removal Tool
* Letter Styling
* Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
* "Mark As Final" Function
* Jumplist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2010 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2010) for more information.
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