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Microsoft Office 2010 – First look

July 16th, 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 is available for private technical preview. I thought I will not post about Microsoft Office 2010 in codegeeks. Reason? This is a programming blog . I thought I will just tweet about the experience but I am tempted to post the screen shots here.

I upgraded from office 2007 to office 2010 and the upgrade took just few minutes. The first thing I noticed was the speed at which word, excel and outlook started.

Word started in just 2-3 seconds. The ribbon you see in office 2007 has gone through some changes and one of the new attraction is the new office button

Clicking this button opens up a new window with options to save, open, print, share the document etc.

I don’t use word 2007 much because I spend most of the time at office and we still use office Xp(!) . Yes you read it right we use office xp but I feel it was a good move not to switch to office 2007. Office 2010 looks more promising than office 2007.

Outlook 2010 is also better and faster than outlook 2007. It took few minutes to open the first time I started outlook. One thing to note is that there is no going back to office 2007 once you start using 2010. So back up your mails (pst files) before upgrading to outlook 2010.