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Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 (also called Office 2010 and Office 14) is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows, and the successor to Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2010 includes extended file format support, user interface updates, and a changed user experience. A 64-bit version of Office 2010 is available, although not for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

On April 15, 2010, Office 2010 was released to manufacturing. The suite became available for retail and online purchase on June 15, 2010.

Office 2010 marks the debut of free online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, which work in the web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari, but not Opera). Office Starter 2010, a new edition of Office, replaced the low-end home productivity software, Microsoft Works.

Microsoft's update to its mobile productivity suite, Office Mobile 2010, will also be released for Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7. In Office 2010, every application features the ribbon, including Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace (previously known as Groove), and the new Office Web Apps.

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 applications shown on Windows 7 (clockwise from top left: Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and Student Edition)

Developer(s)

Microsoft

Initial release

June 15, 2010

Stable release

Build 14.0.4760.1000 / June 15, 2010; 4 months ago

Operating system

Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (32-Bit only)

Platform

Microsoft Windows (Intel x86 32-bit/64-bit)

Available in

English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Type

Office suite

License

Proprietary commercial

Website

microsoft.com/office/2010

Comparison

Table of Editions
Programs and Features	Starter	Office Online	Home and Student¹	Home and Business	Standard	Professional	Professional Plus
Licensing	OEM	Free	Retail	Retail	Retail² and Volume	Retail and Academic	Retail,² Academic, and Volume
Word	Starter edition	Basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excel	Starter edition	Basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PowerPoint	Viewer only	Basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OneNote	No	Basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publisher	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Communicator	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
InfoPath	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
SharePoint Workspace (Groove)	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Project	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Visio	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Office Customization Tool (OCT)³	No	No	No	No	Volume edition only	No	Volume edition only

Remarks:
¹ Office Home and Student boxed product is available in a Family Pack, allowing usage on three PCs in one house.
² Retail version is offered through MSDN or TechNet only.
³ Office Customization Tool is used to customize the installation of Office by creating a Windows Installer Patch (.MSP) file and replaces the Custom Installation Wizard and Custom Deployment Wizard included in 2003 and earlier versions of the Office Resource Kit which created a Windows Installer Transform (.MST). Office Customization Tool is only included in Volume License editions.

Office Mobile 2010

Main article: Microsoft Office Mobile

The office suite for Windows Mobile by Microsoft, is updated together with Office 2010. Windows Mobile 6.5 or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Mobile 2010.
Some of the new features included are:

Presentation Companion: The add-on to PowerPoint Mobile allows users to control a presentation through their Windows Phone and display speaker notes.
Conversation View: Outlook Mobile threads related emails into a group for easier reading and management
SharePoint Workspace Mobile: The new application allows users to sync documents from SharePoint servers directly to their Windows Phone for offline viewing and editing.
Support for New Content in Office 2010 such as SmartArt graphics and charts

An upgrade for the existing Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones is provided via Windows Mobile Marketplace, a beta version is already available.