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August 2009 - Office 2010 Team Blog

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  • Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 4 - The Help Tab)

    Hi, my name is Justin S. Davis, and I am a Program Manager on the Office Product Lifecycle Engineering Excellence (PLEX) team. Clay, Jon, and Marina from the Office User Experience team have already introduced you to the Microsoft Office Backstage View . The Backstage provides a first-class surface for a wealth of document information and operations that had been obscured by levels of user interface. In Office 2007, information about your product, product licenses, and product support is buried several...

  • Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010

    Business Contact Manager is a powerful contact and customer information management feature of Outlook. The new version of Business Contact Manager (BCM) for Outlook 2010 is far more powerful and flexible than BCM for Outlook 2007. Manage your business contacts, track opportunities through the sales cycle, send personalized marketing campaigns, and organize your business projects. With this introductory post , the BCM team has started to write about the top features in their upcoming release for Office...
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  • Volume Activation

    Hi, I’m Ted Way, a Program Manager on the Licensing team. Ever enter a 25-character key when you installed Office? That’s us. I’m looking forward to sharing how we’re helping administrators worry less about key management and seamlessly integrate Windows and Office activation in the enterprise. Starting in Office 2010, all volume editions of Office client software will require activation. What’s great for administrators is that Office has adopted the Windows Software Protection Platform (SPP), which...

  • New Media Features in PowerPoint 2010

    The PowerPoint team has made several posts to their team blog about new media features coming in Office 2010. Here is an excerpt from Allen Huang on the PowerPoint team: One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing media – particularly video – used in all walks of life to enrich communication...
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  • Evolving the Backstage View

    For those of you who are dogfooding the Technical Preview build, thanks for all of the great feedback you’ve sent us so far on the new Backstage view ! We’ve been getting a lot of requests for a sneak peak at the design changes that we’ve been making to the Backstage view since the Technical Preview builds have been released. I’ll talk through some of these changes in this post. Please note that these screenshots are still subject to change - they are from an interim build on the way to our Beta...
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  • Protected View in Office 2010

    Hello, my name is Vikas and I work in the Office Trustworthy Computing security team. Today I will be telling you more about a feature I have been working on called Protected View. Protected View is one of the new security defense-in-depth features added in Office 2010. If you have not seen Brad’s post yet on this and the other new security improvements , it’s definitely worth taking a few minutes to look it over. Why would opening Office documents be scary? With any piece of complex software, over...

  • Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 3 – The Info tab)

    Hi, my name is Marina and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. In previous blog posts, you’ve read about the new Backstage view and how it has helped to improve the Printing experience . Now I’d like to tell you about the Info tab - the default tab you see when you enter the Backstage view. Whenever you are working on a document, there is a ton of information available about its current state. Unfortunately, it is not very easy to actually view all of this information. And when...
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  • Introducing PowerPoint 2010

    With posts about the Sections slide organization feature and the ability to open Unlimited Windows , the PowerPoint team has started to unveil many of the great new features included in PowerPoint 2010. As mentioned in their Introduction , many of your presentations will look better simply because you're presenting with the new version of the software. Most recently, they've been announcing the first-class video support features that are now built directly into the product. Visit the PowerPoint...

  • Office 2010 Global Experience

    Hi, my name is Javier Larrinaga and I run the Program Management for the Global Experience Platform Team (GXP). The purpose of this post is to introduce you to our team and the role we play within the Microsoft Office organization. The current reality of collaboration pushes language, cultural and local requirements to new levels. In this new environment, for Office 2010, we are increasing our investments on World-Readiness and Global Experience to enable our customers to be successful. GXP contributes...
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