03-03-2011, 04:27 PM
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Microsoft Office 2010
INTRODUCTION
We on the Office team are excited to be releasing Microsoft® Office 2010. We believe we’ve raised the bar again and delivered the best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser. It is the result of constant, in-depth research and analysis of feedback and data that we receive from our half-billion customers like you around the world. With each version we have two primary objectives: 1) Build on the essentials you use today and 2) create tools that anticipate your changing needs. In that spirit, Office 2010 makes common tasks easier and faster, while bringing new tools that we believe will become the essentials of your work tomorrow.
Even the best ideas can get lost in the growing sea of information. So, Office 2010 is designed to help you make your ideas stand out. Whether your ideas are intended to inspire one person or transform an international organization, Office 2010 is designed to help those ideas flow and flourish. Use enhanced picture and video tools to create a compelling presentation to ace a class or close a deal. Make sense of volumes of information using new and enhanced tools to visually display key trends in your data, even within a single cell. But it’s not just about more and better; it’s about faster and easier. With the enhanced Ribbon and new ways to navigate through your work, your ideas can keep flowing from start to finish.
The best ideas often result from several minds working together. Office 2010 offers new and enhanced ways for you to work on ideas with more people and with less hassle. With co-authoring, edit the same document at the same time with others. No more multiple versions or waiting your turn. And with Microsoft Office Communicator integrated throughout several Office 2010 applications, you can view the presence of your team members and communicate with them in the context of the work at hand and the flow of your ideas.
Sometimes your best ideas come to you when you’re away from your computer. Office 2010 is designed to give you the flexibility to work when, where, and how you want. With Microsoft Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office Mobile 2010, and expanded offline capabilities, you can work confidently and seamlessly across different devices.
Office 2010 is all about helping your ideas flow and flourish, across the PC, phone, and browser. We are excited to have you experience all the ways it will help you bring your ideas to life.
CHAPTER 1
OFFICE 2010 At a Glance
The objective of it is to set the stage of customer pains that we will solve with Office 2010 and to introduce the Office 2010 pillars.
The majority of observations we’ve made through user behavior and market trends can be grouped into a few areas.
The core mission of the Microsoft Office team is to deliver fast, reliable, easy-to-use software that helps you engage in your daily activities.
We believe that great productivity software should do the following:
• Be easy to use, fast and reliable
• Deliver the results you expect across your pc, phone and browser
• Be engineered for the diversity of people everywhere
• Help you get more from it every day
We have a single-minded focus on executing well on the everyday essentials, and dedication to breaking new ground with innovative ideas to provide you with the best tools for how you will work today and in the future
2010 designed to help people work better together while helping IT maintain control through collaboration without compromise
Stronger emphasis on teamwork. It’s recognized that greater results come from sharing expertise but technology has often been a barrier in helping people to work together efficiently. Barrier is coming down with social computing in the mainstream.
This is especially driven by the “Millennials” or “Gen Y” who are now entering the workforce. They like to work collaboratively. They grew up with technology and an internet connection; find answers with a mouse click versus a trip to the local library
Teams are more global – need to overcome geographic and time zone obstacles
Nature of teamwork has changed – desire to work on deliverables at the same time
Customers are demanding faster response times – need to stay connected to respond quickly to stay competitive. Especially in this economic environment.
Bring Ideas to Life - Challenge in managing volumes of digital information
2010 designed to help people bring ideas to life by drawing insights from information
We’ve entered a truly digital age where the challenge has shifted from digging to find information to managing large volumes of information to find the right insights and present it in a meaningful way.
People are often overwhelmed by the information available – how can you weed through all of it to find the insights to make the right decisions?
Shift towards digital content – You Tube takes up the majority of bandwidth today
Use Office Anywhere - Challenge in working across locations and devices
2010 designed to let people use Office from virtually anywhere, through a PC, phone or browser
People expect to have access to the information they need no matter where they are.
Most mobile workers travel with a laptop, but they also want the ease and flexibility to stay informed and productive by using their phone while waiting in line at the airport or in a store, or by logging on to a computer in a hotel lobby.
Practical Platform for IT - And IT has arguably the toughest balancing act – the need to deliver these capabilities to the business while facing their own pressures in managing cost & complexity
Challenge in helping a diverse workforce be productive while connecting business processes to desktops
2010 is designed to be the practical platform for IT
It’s IT’s job to empower people with the right tools to be productive – from the creative types looking for cutting edge multimedia, to the number-crunching Excel power users.
In meeting a variety of work-styles, they often must balance how to introduce new capabilities to meet the needs of some, while maintaining continuity and familiarity for others.
Since users don’t rely solely on one computer to get things done, and given trends toward “consumerization of IT” where people have preferences in the types of hardware and software they want to use both at home and at work, IT is challenged to support more devices.
The Office 2010 platform delivers on the promise in 3 ways – Simplifying challenges, Safeguarding, and Connecting. These all support the business user needs to be more connected, be more productive, and work anywhere.
• Simplifying focuses on making the everyday and deployment requirements easier to manage.
• Safeguarding brings security to Office applications and reduces risk from threats and keeps your data safe, sanitary, and secure.
• Connecting is all about expanding the features for Office with connected servers, services, and anywhere access.
CHAPTER 2
IMPROVING PERFORMANCE
(Utilizing new and existing hardware)
Emphasis no needs to upgrade hardware, and that the Office team have taken the idea from the O/S team with making 2010 faster than 2007 on the same hardware.Office 2010 was built to maximize performance across the hardware you already own, while also positioning you for future hardware innovations such as 64-bit chips, advanced graphics cards, multi-core processors and alternative form factor devices
