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July 2009 - Office 2010 Team Blog

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  • Introduction to Word 2010

    On this blog we've already started discussing many of the new features (like the Microsoft Office Backstage ) which span across all of the Office 2010 applications. In addition to many continuing posts about these features, we'll also frequently highlight other product features or team blog posts you might be interested in. We're really excited about the new improvements coming in Word 2010. From providing the familiarity of Word in new contexts such as the server, the mobile phone, and...
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  • Save Some Time -- Save Some Trees

    I'm Jon Gordner, a PM on the User Experience team. As Clay wrote in his post , we created the Backstage View for the opportunity to take Office's OUT features - those that you use to do things to the whole file (rather than the content within it) - and make them a little more WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get. Many of the Backstage features in Office suffer from low discoverability and we want to use the Backstage View to address that. We also want to help you get more out of the Backstage...
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  • Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

    Though not available for the public to try (yet), there has been quite a bit of recent buzz around the Office Web Apps we will be shipping with Office 2010 (here links to articles from PCWorld and from ZDNet ). Mike Morton (Group Program Manager of the Web Apps team) just wrote a great post on the Office Web Apps Blog that provides some insights into how we are creating these lightweight, web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote . If you’re interested in reading more, read his post...
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  • Office 2010 Application Security

    Hello, my name is Brad and I work on the Office security team; we focus on a couple of key areas: building security features that improve the Office product line and driving the security engineering process across the division as part of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). I would like to start with a high-level introduction of several of the new security features in Office 2010, what our goals are, and how we think about them. Because shipping Office isn’t about how we think about it, but...

  • Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 1 – Backstory)

    Hi, I'm Clay Satterfield and I'm a Senior Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. Within the first few hours or so of using the Office 2010 Technical Preview, it’s pretty likely that you’ll eventually need to “Save As” or “Print” or do something else with your file. When you finally do click on the Office Button, you’ll see something that you probably didn’t expect. Instead of a menu, or even a Ribbon tab, you’ll see the new Microsoft Office Backstage View. Before getting into...

  • Tell us what you think about Office 2010 (Technical Preview)

    Using Office 2010, have something you want to tell Office? Maybe you're having trouble finding something in the UI or have a specific suggestion on how we can improve a feature. Or, maybe there's something you love and you want to make sure we know about it so that we keep it in the product. The best tool to use to give us feedback on the Office 2010 (Technical Preview) is called Send-a-Smile. Hello and welcome to Office 2010! My name is Amanda and I am a Program Manager in Office, on my...

  • Welcome to the Office 2010 Engineering blog

    This week, we announced the availability of the Office2010 Technical Preview for limited testing. Over the coming months, we hope to learn a lot from our Technical Preview customers about Office2010 and at the same time, we will use this blog to highlight some of the new capabilities that we have added to Office. In addition to this blog, you can find lots of content on the existing Office team blogs, plus the http://www.office2010themovie.com web site, which hosts a set of 'behind the scenes'...
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