Microsoft Office 2010 is available in different editions just like the Windows operating system. There is Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 or Office Professional 2010 for instance. And there is at least one version that is only available to OEMs: Microsoft Office Starter 2010. This version is usually only available for users who purchase [...]

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It is good that Microsoft offers a 60 day trial of Office 2010, but once it expires and you try to open Word or Excel Files, you will get an error message stating that it cannot be opened because the file is not a valid Win32 application. Sure, you can rearm the Office 2010 trial [...]

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Microsoft today has released the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 which combines improvements, new features and previously released updates in a single update pack. The update is available for free if downloaded from the Internet. Microsoft notes that Office 2010 SP1 contains all “public updates that were released through June 2011″ and all “cumulative updates [...]

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Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product.  This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company’s new subscription service for business.  In short it takes the IT department into the cloud with email, calendaring, exchange, Office, Sharepoint intranet services, Messenger and their new Lync communications suite [...]

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Microsoft has released a second Office 2010 guide, after the previously reviewed Getting Started With Microsoft Office 2010 Guide. The new guide, Operations guide for Microsoft Office 2010, provides information on how to maintain and manage Office 2010 in an organization. It is in this regard even more specialized than the getting started guide, the [...]

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Microsoft has just released a Getting started with Microsoft Office 2010 guide that gives customers an overview of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite and how to get started with Office 2010. The book’s core audience is mainly IT personal, help desk, deployment staff and consultants even though it contains valuable information for end users as [...]

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Microsoft has added support for ODF 1.1 in Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. The Open Documents Format is available as an alternative file format in Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2010 displays a “Welcome to Microsoft Office 2010 screen” on the first start of PowerPoint, Excel or Word in which the [...]

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I’ve long been a subscriber to Microsoft’s Action Pack which is for small businesses.  You get 10 licences for Windows and Office plus a Windows Server licence or two for £220 a year.  Plus the software never expires. Many people say that subscription software is the way we’re all going but I’ve been making significant [...]

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Microsoft Office 2010 has been released by Microsoft. The popular Office suite is available in three different editions in retail shops: Office Home and Business 2010, Office Home and Student 2010 and Office Professional 2010. Office Home and Student 2010 is the basic Office edition retailing for $149.99. It includes the core Office modules Word, [...]

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