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January 2010 - Office 2010 Team Blog

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  • Check out the InfoPath "5 for forms" Video Demo Series

    The InfoPath team has a great series of posts on the InfoPath team blog . If you would like to meet the people behind the product and learn about new InfoPath 2010 features, then check out our "5 for forms" video demo series. Each week a member of the product team demos a cool, new InfoPath 2010 feature or scenario in less than 5 minutes. In this series, discover how easy it is to build powerful applications on SharePoint , using InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Services 2010 - no code required...
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  • Business Intelligence Features in Excel 2010

    The Excel team has made a number of improvements in the Business Intelligence area for Excel 2010, which have been covered in-depth on the Excel Team Blog . First, the team added slicers , which are visual controls that allow you to quickly and easily filter your data in an interactive way. Slicers can connect to PivotTables, PivotCharts, and CUBE functions to creative interactive dashboards: " border="0" alt="clip_image001 " src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/office2010/WindowsLiveWriter/BusinessIntelligenceFeaturesinExcel2010_6F3C...

  • Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver

    Over the past few months, we’ve highlighted many of the new features that will be available in Office 2010 – and many of you have downloaded the beta to try them out for yourself. In fact, as we reported at CES , more than 2.5 million of you have downloaded the beta already. Now two other will join the beta ranks. Microsoft, along with many of you has caught the Vancouver 2010 fever and we figured what better place to try out some of the new features of Office 2010. Two bloggers, Amber Johnson Borowski...

  • Accessing Office Documents Using Your Phone

    A few weeks back we introduced Mobility in Office 2010 where we talked about Microsoft® Office Mobile 2010 (for Windows® phones) and Office 2010 Mobile viewers (for non-Windows phones). That post very briefly touched upon how documents can be accessed while on-the-go using either SharePoint® Workspace Mobile 2010 or Office 2010 Mobile viewers. In this post we will talk in more details how you can access your documents on-the-go. Imagine you are at a café waiting for the next customer meeting – now...

  • Office 2010 System Requirements

    Hi everyone! My name is Alex Dubec and I’m a Program Manager on the Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team. My team is responsible for compiling system requirements across Office, and I’d like to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we determine system requirements and the hardware your computer requires to run Office 2010. Before diving into all the details, I want to answer a question that I’m sure is on all of your minds: Can I use Office 2010 on the same hardware I’m using to run Office...

  • A Few Announcements

    Just in case everyone hasn’t seen the exciting news, today we announced a new concept test prototype for Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) called Ribbon Hero .  Ribbon Hero explores a new approach to Office training that’s designed to deliver a fun, engaging experience to aid users in exploring the features available in Office.  Unlike traditional training, Ribbon Hero presents a game-like environment for learning and lets users compare their scores and feature usage on Facebook. ...

  • Product Planning in Office 2010

    My name is Scott Gordon – I am the Group Product Planner for the Microsoft Business Division. My team and I work closely with the Office engineers to represent the voice of you, our customers, in the product development cycle. How do interactions with customers represent your voice in our product development efforts? Our approach reminds me of an experience a friend of mine had a while ago as a SCUBA instructor. He was asked by a team of animators how to SCUBA dive. They were preparing to create...

  • The New Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010

    Lately, the PowerPoint Team has been writing a lot about the new slide show experience. Transitions, animations, and video will look better and run smoother in PowerPoint thanks to the brand new rendering pipeline that ships with PowerPoint 2010. This recent post highlights the differences between this new, hardware-accelerated engine and the old engine that runs in PowerPoint 2007: The purpose of this upgrade is to enable you to create more visually stimulating slides and tell a more compelling...

  • Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility

    My name is Larry Waldman -- I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team and have been working in this role to make Office more accessible for almost 5 years. When users of Office hear that Microsoft has many people working specifically to make our products more accessible to people with disabilities, many express surprise. With such a broad customer base, we recognize the importance of considering accessibility impact in every feature we build. For example, check out this article I...

  • What the Office team will be talking about at CES

    Heading into the new year, the Microsoft Office team is motivated more than ever by what we’re hearing about customers’ experiences with Office 2010. Many people think Office is just for the workplace, but millions of people are using Office at home, at school and for their small businesses to get things done. For instance: According to the NPD Group, Office Home and Student was the number one selling PC software product -- including games! -- at retail in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday...
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