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LATEST MICROSOFT NEWS
Microsoft Office 2010
Now Available for Consumers Worldwide
NEW YORK —
June 15, 2010 —
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide
availability of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio
2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. Consumers can now
purchase Office 2010 at more than 35,000 retail stores
across the globe, such as Best Buy, Fnac, Harvey Norman
and PC World; through online retailers, including
Amazon.com; and direct from Microsoft at
Office.com.
Office 2010 can also be
purchased with the most popular desktops and laptops
from leading PC makers including Acer Inc., Asus, Dell
Inc., HP, Lenovo, Samsung and Sony Corp. In the next
year, more than 100 million PCs will ship with Office
2010 preloaded, which can easily be activated with the
purchase of any one of the three versions of Office
2010, including Office Home and Student 2010, Office
Home and Business 2010, or Office Professional 2010.
“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,” said Stephen
Elop, president, Microsoft Business Division. “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.”
Office 2010
Represents a Great Growth Opportunity for Microsoft and
Its Partners
“Recent comScore Tech
Metrix™ data confirms that more than 1
billion PCs worldwide have Office software installed,
making it the most widely used productivity suite in the
world,” said Mike Hurt, senior vice president of
comScore. “This milestone helps illustrate the
importance that software products like Microsoft Office
have played in shaping the digital world to date.”
Considering there are
approximately 1.8 billion Internet users worldwide,
Microsoft and its channel partners see an incredible
opportunity to deliver Office 2010 to existing and new
Office customers around the world.
From a survey of Office
2010 beta users, Microsoft found that 75 percent say
they plan to buy Office 2010 within six months. The
Office 2010 beta program had more than 9 million
downloads — more than six times the size of the 2007
Microsoft Office beta program — indicating strong
consumer interest in Office 2010.
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“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.
Productivity
Solutions Across
the PC, Phone
and Browser
Throughout its
development
cycle, customer
feedback has
been critical to
the improvements
found in Office
2010. Based on
this valuable
input, Microsoft
has made
considerable
enhancements to
help users do
the following:
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Create
great-looking
documents
and
presentations.
Express
creativity
in
PowerPoint
2010
presentations
with new
video
and
photo
editing
features.
Add
extensive
text
effects
and
table
formatting
options
in Word
2010.
Reveal
important
trends
in data
with
Sparklines
in Excel
2010.
OneNote
2010
makes
everything
you need
simple
to find,
organize
and
share.
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Connect
and work
together
more
simply.
Advanced
e-mail
management
and
calendaring
capabilities
in
Outlook
2010 and
the new
Outlook
Social
Connector
help
people
stay
productive
and in
touch
with
personal
and
business
networks.
Work
with
others
more
efficiently
using
new
co-authoring
in Word
2010,
PowerPoint
2010 and
OneNote
2010.
Deliver
presentations
over the
Web with
new
PowerPoint
Broadcast
Slideshow. |
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Get
things
done
from
virtually
anywhere.
With
Office
2010 and
the
Office
Web Apps
— the
online
companions
to Word,
PowerPoint,
Excel
and
OneNote
— people
have the
freedom
to save
documents
directly
from
Office
2010 to
Windows
Live
SkyDrive,
then
view,
edit and
share
those
documents
in the
cloud.
The
Office
Web Apps
preserve
the look
and feel
of
Office
documents,
so
valuable
content
and
formatting
are not
compromised
while
moving
between
the PC,
phone
and
browser* |
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Office
Mobile
2010
also is
available
from
Windows®
Phone
Marketplace
for all
Windows
Mobile
6.5
phones.
People
using
Office
Mobile
2010 can
perform
lightweight
editing
of
Office
documents
and take
notes on
the go,
or work
on
Office
documents
stored
on their
phone or
attached
to an
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Today, Office
2010 is
available in 10
languages and
will expand to
94 languages.
Founded in 1975,
Microsoft (Nasdaq
“MSFT”) is the
worldwide leader
in software,
services and
solutions that
help people and
businesses
realize their
full potential.
* An
appropriate
device, Internet
connection and
supported
browser are
required. Some
mobile
functionality
requires Office
Mobile 2010,
which is not
included in
Office 2010
applications,
suites or Web
Apps. There are
some differences
between the
features of the
Office Web Apps,
Office Mobile
2010 and the
Office 2010
applications.
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