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February 2010 - Office 2010 Team Blog

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  • Understanding 64-Bit Office

    Microsoft Office 2010 marks the first time Office will be shipping in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. With Windows 7, you have the option of running 64-bit Windows on your 64-bit PC, and now with Office 2010 you have that same choice. As 64-bit processors and operating systems are becoming the standard for systems ranging from servers to desktop computers, 64-bit Office will be able to take advantage of everything that 64-bit systems have to offer. Some users need greater memory capacity, and those...

  • Office 2010 and AppV 4.6

    Today, over on the MDOP BLOG , we announced the release of the next version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (4.6) as part of MDOP 2010 (Microsoft Deployment Optimization Pack).  From Takeshi Numoto, Corporate VP in Office: “App-V 4.6 provides Office customers with a robust set of features to tackle core challenges including application upgrade, application coexistence, and user readiness. It’s an exciting, powerful new way for IT to deliver Office 2010 quickly without impacting user...

  • Learn about InfoPath 2010 in free web casts with the Microsoft Product team!

    Do you want to learn about InfoPath and SharePoint 2010 in FREE Web casts with the InfoPath product team? Then sign up for the InfoPath 2010 Academy Live Series . There are 3 remaining sessions in the series. The next session “ Building SharePoint Applications with InfoPath 2010 ” will take place on Wednesday, March 10th from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (PST). If you missed our 1st session, “An introduction to SharePoint applications using InfoPath 2010”, you can view it on demand here . Just click the Read...

  • Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes

    Since announcing our public Beta , many folks on the Office team have been hard at work engaging with pre-release testers to find and fix any potential deployment issues IT departments may face with existing Office solutions once Office 2010 is released.  In addition to engaging on specific developer features like UI extensibility , we also started the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program – here are excerpts from this blog post : With the great value Office 2010 brings for end users...
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  • Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta

    Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately. Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 32-bit Office 2010 Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 64-bit Office 2010 This fix prevents future messages from consuming unnecessary space, but doesn’t resize existing...
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  • How does usage data improve the Office User Experience?

    Hello, my name is Tim Briggs – I am a user experience (UX) Researcher in the Office Design Group (ODG). Usage data is one of the important feedback mechanisms we look at to understand how Office is being used in the real world. Answering questions like “how frequently is a command used?” and “how many files contain this feature?” are critical parts of our entire engineering process. Today, I’d like to give you a better sense of how we collect, interpret, and design based on usage data. To get the...

  • Data Excecution Prevention in Office 2010

    Hello, my name is Vikas Malhotra, and I am a security Program Manager in the Office Trustworthy Computer Team (TWC). In this post I will be covering some security changes we made around Data Execution Prevention or DEP for short. DEP is one of the many new defense in depth protection layers we have added in Office 2010. I will begin by telling you what DEP is all about and how it can affect you both as an IT professional and as a developer. What is DEP? DEP is a security feature that was introduced...

  • Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures

    Hi, again, I’m Tucker Hatfield, a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team with another post on improvements for using pictures in documents in Office 2010. This time we’re looking at the improvements to cropping pictures in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. When planning our new features for this version of Office, we did a lot of research to find out more about the common tasks people do with pictures in Office. Cropping was overwhelmingly the most-used bit of editing used on pictures, so...
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