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  • Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Tools Availability

    The last couple of weeks have brought the release of tools (4 tools in 2 weeks!) to help IT Professionals expedite Office 2010 deployment. This posts highlights those four newly released tools and provides links to get started learning about using them. Respectively, these tools help you assess and plan for an Office 2010 deployment, assess potential Office application compatibility issues, and customize your Office 2010 deployment. 1. Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit 5.0 (MAP) MAP is...
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  • Why Office? “To keep projects on track.”

    Project execution is important no matter who you work for or what department you are in. You have to know who is accountable for what, where information can be found, and keep everyone up to date when things change. Jennifer Kensok writing again—I’m a product manager for Office (see my last post about a customer using Excel and PowerPivot). Project execution is something I learned a lot about when I first started working here at Microsoft – mostly through rough stints on projects that didn’t execute...

  • Office 2010 Availability

    Office 2010 is publically available today!  Everyone on the Office engineering team is very excited about this milestone.  We’ve had more of you download and try our Beta than ever before (more than 9,000,000 downloads), and business users have been starting to use Office 2010 since our Business Launch . Now it’s your turn to use Office 2010.  You can download a trial from from www.office.com , or buy it right from the site.  Also, as Nick Simons mentions on the Office Web Apps...

  • Access 2010 FIFA Tournament Template

    As the excitement about the 2010 world cup in South Africa intensified, Barath Balasubramanian (an Access Engineer) set out to build an application to gather predictions on the results of the tournament from his team mates. Since they all have access to a SharePoint server, he decided to build the application using Access 2010 and Access Services on SharePoint 2010. In less than two hours he was able to create a cool looking application that can not only track the 2010 FIFA world cup predictions...
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  • Why Office? “Our business runs on Excel.”

    I am Jennifer Kensok and I am a product manager in the Office Enterprise business.  I work with a lot of customers, and sometimes I wonder if customers could use Excel alone to run a business. From what I have heard from customers, Excel 2010 with PowerPivot is the best bet yet for any frugal companies out there hoping to get the most out of their data while minimizing their costs. Excel 2010 does most of the work for you – from slicing a PivotTable to help filter analysis to spotting new trends...
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  • Review and deliver dynamic presentations with PowerPoint Mobile 2010

    A few weeks ago we talked about Mobility in Office 2010 where we introduced you to Microsoft® Office Mobile 2010 for Windows® phones, and briefly described the Office applications that are designed to keep you productive on the move. In this post, we take a detailed look at PowerPoint Mobile which now features the ability to review and edit slides, and even acts as a companion to assist you as you deliver that big presentation! Review and Edit presentations Imagine you’re a sales rep...
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  • Next Week: TechNet Updates & Disabled Comments

    Hello blog readers! Next week the TechNet blog servers will be upgraded to support new features such as invisible captcha (you won’t need to enter numbers before commenting), a new excerpt view for easier browsing of blog posts, and easier sharing of posts on your favorite social sites like Facebook, Windows Live, or Twitter. As part of the upgrade process we will be disabling comments from Sunday, May 16 at 8:30pm PST to Monday, May 24 th , at 12pm PST . We apologize for the inconvenience but are...

  • Understanding Software Assurance

    Most large organizations have Software Assurance (SA) as part of their licensing agreement and there are many benefits that are included that go unused every agreement period. We have found that many of the people who would use the benefits don’t know that their organization has them. Those who do know about Software Assurance associate the program with getting the next version of software at no additional cost, however there are other benefits that can save you money from your budget on training...
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  • What’s up with the Business Launch? A conversation with the engineering leader behind Office

    We’re excited to announce that Office 2010 is available to business customers starting today! In addition to our virtual launch events , you can find more information below from a conversation that Takeshi Numoto had with Antoine Leblond , the engineering leader behind Office 2010. In it, he shares some of his insights into Office 2010 from an engineering perspective. T: We’ve been talking about Office 2010 for over a year. Why are businesses going to tune into our “launch” on May 12? A: Candidly...
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  • How the SDL helped improve Security in Office 2010

    Hello, my name is Didier and I am a Security Program Manager in the Microsoft Security Engineering Center. We focus on helping teams like Office go beyond the minimum requirements of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). For Office 2010, I worked closely with members of the Office TWC team. The Microsoft SDL is a security assurance process that is focused on software development. As a company-wide initiative and a mandatory policy since 2004, the SDL has played a critical role in embedding security...
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  • SmartArt Diagram Improvements

    In Office 2007 we introduced SmartArt diagrams, a tool designed to simplify the process of creating quality graphical layouts. The goal of every SmartArt diagram is to enhance the aesthetic appeal of your document and to use a graphic to convey a message. SmartArt diagrams adjust the size of all of your shapes and text for you as you add or remove content. You may also resize your entire graphic and all of the contents will be resized accordingly. In the Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word 2010...

  • Did You Know?

    Our friends over at blogs.office.com just started a series of “Did You Know?” posts that are aimed at starting conversations with you about trends that affect us all.  Cloud computing, mobile/remote work styles, and social networking - and how Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 help users embrace them in new and powerful ways.  The first introductory post from Takeshi Numoto (Corporate VP, Office) is available now . Enjoy. Read More...

  • Help and Training for Office 2010 and Office 2007

    With the launch of Office 2010, we are producing another wave of great help and training content. The new Office 2010 website ( office2010.microsoft.com ) delivers articles and demos that will quickly get you up to speed on the new features and functionality in Office. There are two key ways to get access to this great help and training content from right within Office 2010. When working on your document (or spreadsheet, etc.), you can click the icon in the upper right hand corner of the application...
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  • Top 10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010

    On the heels of our recent announcement that Office 2010 has released to manufacturing , many of the individual Office team blogs have posted similar announcements and deep summaries about their specific aspects of Office. Over the next few weeks we’ll link to many of these posts to give you an overview of all the great features Office 2010 has to offer. Or, if you can’t wait, you can use the links to the right to go directly to the team blogs. First up is the PowerPoint team blog. They recently...
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  • Office 2010 Reaches RTM!

    I am very excited to share some great news with you. Earlier today we reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010! RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone. It is also an appropriate time to re-emphasize our sincere gratitude to the more than 5,000 organizations and partners who have worked with us on rapid deployment and testing...
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