Microsoft Office 2010 (code-named Office 14 ) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 was released to manufacturing on April 15, 2010, and then made available for retail and online purchases on June 15, 2010. This is the successor of Office 2007 and its predecessor to Office 2013. Office 2010 research and development began in 2006, prior to the release of its predecessor.
Office 2010 introduces improved user interfaces including a Backstage view that combines document management tasks into a single location. The ribbons introduced in Office 2007 for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word are the main user interfaces for all applications and fully customizable in Office 2010. Other new features include extended file format support; a shared author feature that allows multiple users to share and edit documents simultaneously; OneDrive and SharePoint integration; and security enhancements like Protected View, isolated sandbox environments, read only to protect users from potentially harmful content. It also debuted Office Online - formerly Office Web Apps - a collection of versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and a free web-based Word. Office Starter 2010, a new edition of Office, replaces Microsoft Works. Office Mobile 2010, an update to Microsoft's mobile productivity suite, was released on May 12, 2010 as a free upgrade from Windows Phone Store devices to Windows Mobile 6.5 to an earlier version of Office Mobile.
Office 2010 is the first Office version delivered in two variants for IA-32 and x64, but the x64 version is not compatible with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. It is also the first version that requires product activation for volume licensing editions. This is the last version of Office compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 as replacements, Office 2013, does not support this operating system.
Reception to Office 2010 is generally positive, with critics praising the new Backstage view interface, new customization options for ribbons, and tying the ribbon to all apps. While sales were initially lower than its predecessor, Office 2010 was a success for Microsoft and surpassed the company's previous record for adoption, deployment, and revenue. As of December 31, 2011, approximately 200 million Office 2010 licenses were sold, prior to termination on January 31, 2013. Mainstream Support for Office 2010 expires on October 13, 2015; Extended support will end on October 13, 2020.
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History and development
Development began in 2007 while Microsoft completed the work in Office 12, released as Microsoft Office 2007. Version number 13 was skipped for fear of number 13. It was previously suspected that Office 2010 (later called Office 14) would send in the first half of 2009.
On April 15, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 will be released in the first half of 2010. They announced on May 12, 2009, at Tech Ed event, a 64-bit edition trial version. Technical Preview 1 (Version: 14.0.4006.1010) was leaked on May 15, 2009.
An internal post-beta build was leaked on July 12, 2009. It's newer than the official preview version and includes an internal "Limestone" test app (note: EULA indicates Beta 2). On July 13, 2009, Microsoft announced Office 2010 at the Worldwide Worldwide Partners Conference 2009.
On July 14, 2009, Microsoft began sending invitations to Microsoft Connect to test the official preview of Office 2010 development. On August 30, 2009, the beta build 4417 was leaked on the internet via torrent.
Public beta is available to TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Connect users on November 16, 2009. On November 18, 2009, the beta was officially released to the general public on the Microsoft Office Beta website, which was originally launched by Microsoft on November 11, 2009 to provide screenshots from the office new suite. Office 2010 Beta is a free, fully functional version and ends on October 31, 2010.
In an effort to help customers and partners with Office 2010 deployment, Microsoft launched the Office 2010 application compatibility program with tools and guides available for download. On February 5, 2010, the official release candidate build 4734.1000 is available for Connect and MSDN tester. It was leaked to the torrent site. A few days later, the Escrow RTM building leaked.
Microsoft announced RTM on April 15, 2010, and the latest version is to have talk technology to use with text to speech in Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Word. Office 2010 will initially be released to business customers on May 12, 2010, but made available to Business customers under Software Guarantees on April 27, 2010, and for other Volume License Subscribers on May 1st. MSDN and TechNet customers have been able to download the RTM version since April 22, 2010. RTM version number is 14.0.4763.1000.
On June 15, 2010, Office 2010 achieved general availability.
Service plan
Microsoft released a total of two service packs for Office 2010 primarily intended to address software bugs. Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 2 (SP2) were released in conjunction with updates to additional products such as Office Online, SharePoint, and SharePoint Designer.
On November 17, 2010, Microsoft invited a select number of testers on the Microsoft Connect web portal to test the SP1 beta release. SP1 was officially released by Microsoft on June 27, 2011 and includes compatibility, performance, security, and stability improvements. SP1 is a cumulative update that includes all previous updates, as well as exclusive fixes for its release; an exclusive fix list released by Microsoft. SP1 also introduces additional features for Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. For example, OneNote 2010 SP1 introduces the ability to open a notebook stored on OneDrive directly from within the application itself, while Outlook 2010 SP1 introduces Office 365 support. With its release, Office Online usage in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9 is officially supported by Microsoft for the first time.
On April 8, 2013, the beta build of Office 2010 SP2 was released. SP2 is a cumulative update officially released on July 16, 2013 and includes all previously released compatibility, performance, stability, and security fixes, as well as many exclusive improvements; an exclusive fix list for SP2 released by Microsoft. Microsoft claims that with the SP2 release, Office 2010 will feature compatibility improvements with Internet Explorer 10, Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Windows 8. Because SP2 is cumulative, SP1 is not a prerequisite for installation.
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New features
User interface
In both client applications and Internet deployments, Office 2010 design incorporates features from SharePoint and borrows from Web 2.0 ideas. Office 2010 is also more "role-based" than previous versions, with special features tailored for employees in "roles such as professional research and development, sales staff, and human resources."
Backstage view
The new Backstage display interface replaces the Office menu introduced in Office 2007 and is designed to facilitate access to document management and task sharing by consolidating it in one location. In the theater, backstage refers to the backstage area where behind-the-scenes activities and preparations begin; Backstage view is a dedicated interface for activities and preparation before saving or sharing documents. It consists of the left navigation pane and the adjacent main panel. The navigation pane includes a series of commonly arranged vertical commands to open or store files and tabs that, when opened, expose document management tasks and contextual information within the main panel. A number of recently opened documents can also be displayed inside the navigation pane.
Tasks accessed via a tab in the main panel are categorized into separate groups that display contextual information related to application, file, and task configuration; each tab displays contextual information relevant to that tab. On the Info tab in Word, for example, metadata document details appear in the Prepare for Sharing group to notify users of potentially private information before the file is shared with other users, while the Help tab displays the Office version information and license status product. In Office 2007, this information is entered in a separate location. From the Info tab, users can access revisions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents that are currently open, as well as previously unsaved versions of documents that were previously closed. In the Print tab, Backstage view also incorporates previously separate print and print preview features by displaying printer tasks, settings, and a zoom user interface to view the currently open document.
Backstage view, such as ribbon, can be expanded; developers can add their own commands, tabs, tasks and related information.
File tab
The new File tab replaces the Office buttons introduced in Office 2007 and offers similar functionality. Previous Office buttons - round buttons emblazoned with the Microsoft Office logo - have a different look from the ribbon tabs in the 2007 Office interface and are positioned away from them, with the target being extended to the upper left corner of the screen according to Fitts law. Microsoft has stated that this button increases the usefulness of Office, but many users see it as "branding decorations, rather than functional buttons." As a result, in Office 2010 it is replaced with the File tab that appears next to other tabs in the ribbon instead of the top left corner of the screen. The Files tab is colored on a per-application basis (e.g., Colored orange in Outlook). Opening the Files tab will show a new Backstage view.
Paste option gallery
Office 2010 introduces a gallery of ribbon connection options, in the context menu, and in object-oriented user interfaces that replace the Custom Paste dialog box and the Paste Recovery feature seen in earlier versions of Office. The gallery introduces the Live Preview effect to the pasta process when the user places the mouse cursor over the options in the gallery so that the results of the process can be previewed before being applied to the document; tooltip with description and keyboard shortcuts related to that option will also appear. If the user positions the mouse cursor over the gallery option in the context menu, the rest of the context menu becomes transparent so as not to block the preview result in the document. To facilitate keyboard-based paste operation, the user can navigate the gallery using the arrow keys on the keyboard or press Ctrl after pressing Ctrl V to display gallery options The gallery options change based on the content in the clipboard and the apps where the content is pasted.
Ribbon enhancement
The ribbon interface, introduced in Office 2007, is fully customizable and included in all applications in Office 2010. Users can add or rename special ribbon tabs and groups, add extra commands to the default tab, and hide unused tabs. Users may also export or import any customization changes made to the tape to facilitate backup, deployment or distribution, or reset all customization of the tape. The ribbon is also updated with visible interface options to reduce it, leaving only open tabs.
After the launch of Office 2010, Microsoft provided free downloads for special ribbons with a new "Favorites" tab that consolidated various orders based on customer feedback related to the most frequently used commands in Office; customized ribbons are available as separate downloads for Access, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, and Word.
Other UI changes
- The default color scheme in Office 2010 is silver, not blue as it is in Office 2007 and now has a 5: 1 contrast ratio for improved accessibility and legibility.
- All app icons have been redesigned in Office 2010. New icons are based on colors that match their respective apps, as per previous releases, with an increased emphasis on app letters.
- The Office 2010 splash screen has been redesigned from what was seen in Office 2007 and animated when the app was launched.
- OneNote and PowerPoint support the mathematical equations through the Contextual Tool Equal tab on the ribbon.
- PowerPoint and Publisher include a syncing guide so users can align objects to the grid.
- The smart tags, introduced in Office XP, have been renamed to Actions and are now accessible from the context menu.
File format
Office 2010 includes updated support for ISO/IEC 29500: 2008, versions of the International Open Office XML (OOXML) format. Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitions, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict. However, in its pre-release form, Office 2010 only supports Transition variants, and not Strict.
Office 2010 also continues support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.1, which is a common OASIS/ISO/IEC standard (ISO/IEC 26300: 2006/Amd 1: 2012Ã, - Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1).
Office 2010 introduces shared creation functions in Excel Web Applications, OneNote Web App, and in OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word client versions for documents stored on SharePoint 2010 sites and for documents stored in shared folders by OneDrive. Office 365 is also supported. Co-authoring sessions automatically start when two or more users open the same document. From the Backstage view, users can also save documents directly to remote locations in Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word to facilitate remote access sessions and joint creation sessions. A Microsoft account is required to use Office 2010 functions associated with OneDrive. In Excel Web App, OneNote Web App, and OneNote, editing to shared documents in a shared creation session occurs in sequence, and appears almost directly as a shared document that automatically saves itself whenever a writer edits it. In PowerPoint and Word, users must upload changes to the server by manually storing the documents together.
During a joint creation session, Excel Web App, PowerPoint, and Word show how many co-authors edit the document at any given time through the icon in the status bar. Clicking this icon in PowerPoint and Word displays contact information including the presence of a co-author; similar information can be accessed through the Info tab of the Backstage view. When co-authors click on the names of other co-authors, they can send email messages with email clients or start instant message conversations with each other if supported applications such as Skype for Business are installed on every machine. If a conflict between multiple changes occurs in PowerPoint or Word, the divisor can approve or reject the changes before uploading them to the server.
Both in OneNote Web App and OneNote, users can view co-author names along with their respective edits for content in shared notebooks, or create separate versions of pages for individual use. Edits made since the last recorded book opened are automatically highlighted and the co-author's initials that make edits are automatically displayed. In the OneNote client version, co-authors can also search for all edits for notebooks created by certain co-authors. The OneNote 2010 Notebook can be shared with Office Mobile 2010 users on Windows Phone 7. OneNote 2007 users can also participate in co-authoring sessions with OneNote 2010 users when using shared notebooks using the older OneNote 2007 file format; however, the joint search feature and the above-mentioned version creation feature, as well as compatibility with OneNote Web App, will not be available.
Installation and deployment
Office 2010 introduces a new Click-to-Run installation process based on streaming technology and Microsoft App-V virtualization as an alternative to the traditional Windows Installer-based installation process for Home and Student and Home and Business editions, and as a mandatory installation process for the Starter edition. Install Click-to-Run products in a virtualization environment - Q: partition - which downloads product features in the background once the app itself is installed so users can start using the app immediately. The download process is optimized for broadband connections.
During the Office 2010 office lifecycle, Microsoft, in collaboration with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and retail partners, introduced the Card Lock Product license program that allows users to purchase a single license - at a lower cost than traditional retail media - to enable Home and Student, Home and Business, and Professional editions installed on personal computers. Product Card Card Version is limited to one machine.
The volume release version of Office 2010 requires product activation. On the activation of the 2007 Office product is only required for OEM or retail version of the product.
Security
Office File Validation
Office File Validation, previously only included in Publisher 2007 for PUB files, has been incorporated into Excel, PowerPoint, and Word in Office 2010 to validate the integrity of exclusive binary file formats (eg, DOC, PPT, and XLS) introduced in previous versions of Microsoft Office. When a user opens a document, the format of the file format is scanned to ensure that it complies with the specifications specified by the XML schema; if the file fails the validation process, by default, opens in Protected View, a new, read-only and isolated sandbox environment to protect users from potentially harmful content. this design allows users to visually assess potentially unsafe documents that fail validation. Microsoft states that the document may fail validation as false positive. To improve Office File Validation, Office 2010 collects various information about files that have failed validation and also makes copies of these files for optional delivery to Microsoft via Windows Error Reporting. The user is requested approximately every two weeks from the date of failed validation attempt to send a copy of the file or other information for analysis; request to include a list of files to be sent to Microsoft and require explicit user consent before submission. Administrators can disable data sending.
On December 14, 2010, Microsoft announced its intention to support the Office File Validation feature to Office 2003 and Office 2007. On April 12, 2011, Office File Validation has been reported as an add-in for Office 2003 SP3 and Office 2007 SP2, and then available through Microsoft Update on June 28, 2011. Office File Validation in Office 2003 and Office 2007 is different from the version in Office 2010 because these two releases do not include the Protected View feature. When a user tries to open a document that fails validation, they must first agree to a warning prompt before it can be opened. Additionally, the configuration options in these two releases are only available through Windows Registry, while Office 2010 also provides Group Policy options.
Protected View
Protected View, an isolated sandbox environment for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, replaces the Isolated Conversion Environments update available for earlier versions of Microsoft Office. When a document is opened from a potentially unsafe location such as the Internet or as an email attachment, or if the document does not comply with the File Block policy or if it fails Office File Validation, it opens in Protected View, which prohibits potentially unsafe documents from modifying components, files , and other resources on a system; users can also open documents manually in Protected View. When a document is opened in Protected View, the user is allowed to view, copy, and paste document content, but there is no option to edit, save, or print content, and all active document content includes ActiveX controls, database connections, hyperlinks, and macros disabled. Users can open documents outside Protected View by clicking the "Enable Editing" button that appears in the message bar in the Office user interface. As a precaution, active content in potentially unsafe documents remains disabled when the user reopens after exiting from Protected View until the user clicks the "Enable Content" button on the message bar, which points to documents as trusted documents so that the user not prompted when opened in the future.
The Protected View is implemented as a separate instance process from Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. The main process of each application is given the current user access token and hosted an Office user interface element such as ribbon, while the Protected View process consists of a document viewport, parsing and rendering document content, and operating with reduced privileges; the main process serves as a mediator for requests initiated by a separate process. In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, Mandatory Control Integrity and Privileged User Interface will restrict separate processes. Protected View is also available when Office 2010 is installed on Windows XP, but not so strongly in the absence of this security feature.
Trusted documents
Office 2010 allows users to design individual documents as trusted, allowing all active content to operate whenever a particular document is opened; trusted documents are not open in Protected View. Documents residing in local or remote directories can be trusted, but users are warned if there is an attempt to trust documents from remote resources. To improve security, documents in Temporary Internet Files and TEMP directories can not be trusted. Trusted document preferences, referred to as trust notes , are stored in the Windows Registry on a per-user basis; the trust note contains the complete path to trusted documents and other information to protect the user from psychological manipulation attacks.
Other security features
- Office 2010 is the first version of Office that natively supports Data Execution Prevention (DEP). The Office 2010 application complies with the DEP policy specified by the administrator and provides the option to disable DEP in the interface or Group Policy.
- Bit kill The new ActiveX Office provides an option to configure ActiveX controls in Office 2010 without affecting the operation of this control in Internet Explorer.
- Additional Group Policy settings for File Block functionality in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Cryptographic improvements, including support for Cryptography APIs: Next Generation in Access, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word; Suite B support; and integrity validation of encrypted files.
- Time logging of digital signature documents.
- The complexity and domain-based password enforcement policy.
Graphs
Artistic effect
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word include various artistic effects such as glass, paint scratches, pastels, and pencil sketch effects that users can apply to an inserted image.
Background removal
The new background removal feature based on Microsoft Research technology is included in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word to remove background images that are inserted into the document. This is exposed as the Background Remove command that appears on the Toolbar contextual tab on the ribbon when the image is selected. When enabled, this command displays a separate Background Background contextual tab and places the selection rectangles and magenta colors above the selected portion of the image. The selection of the rectangle determines, based on the algorithm, which areas of the selected image will be preserved after the background deletion process is complete, while the magenta color indicates the area to be removed. Users can manually set the position and size of the selection rectangle and also mark the area of ​​each image to be stored or deleted; it is also possible to remove the mark after accidental selection or if it produces undesirable results. Once the background is deleted, the user can apply various visual effects to the resulting image or wrap text in surrounding documents; the user can also crop the image because removing the background does not reduce its original size.
Trim the increase
Office 2010 introduces improvements to the image pruning process in Excel, Outook, PowerPoint, Word. The trimming selection box now obscures parts of the image to be removed during the cropping process and displays the result area in color, rather than completely deleting all parts of the image outside of the selection rectangle from the look like in previous versions of Office; images can now be repositioned under the election rectangle while it is active. The new Aspect Ratio option under the Ribbon crop command presents a drop-down menu with options for landscape and portrait page orientation to adjust the aspect ratio of the selected rectangle before the user crops the image, which automatically resizes the selection rectangle when the user starts the trimming process; the user can resize the selection rectangle manually and while maintaining the aspect ratio by resizing it from the angle while pressing : 1px solid #aaa; -moz-border-radius: 0, 2 em; -webkit-border-radius: 0.2em; border-radius: 0.2em; -moz-box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba (0,0,0,0.1); -webkit-box-shadow : 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba (0,0,0,0,1); box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba (0,0,0,0,1); background-color: # f9f9f9; background-image: - moz-linear -gradient (top, #eee, # f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -o-linear-gradient (top, #eee, # f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: -webkit-linear- gradien (top , #eee, # f9f9f9, #eee); background-image: linear-gradient (down, #eee, # f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85 em; ">? Slide the button. The above mentioned harvest improvements are also available on Publisher.
The Picture Shape commands in earlier versions of Office have been replaced with new Crop to Shape commands that allow the user to resize and move the selected shape during the trimming process. By default, Office 2010, like the previous version, automatically resizes the inserted images into shapes, which can negatively impact its aspect ratio. To overcome this, images in the current form can be cropped or resized after they are inserted, and individual Fit and Fill options have been inserted. The previous option resizes the selected image so that the entire area of ​​the rectangle or form of the crop selection is filled, while the last option resizes the image so it is displayed within the selection rectangle or in its overall form; both options maintain the original aspect ratio of the selected image. Images entered into SmartArt charts can also be cropped, resized, or re-positioned.
Effects and refinements of font
Excel, PowerPoint, and Word support text effects such as bevel, gradient fills, glows, reflections, and shadows. The publisher and Word support OpenType features such as kerning, ligatures, stylistic sets, and text numbers with fonts like Calibri, Cambria, Corbel, and Gabriola.
Hardware acceleration
Office 2010 applications including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word support hardware acceleration graphics when installed on machines with DirectX 9.0c-compliant GPUs that have at least 64 MB of video memory. Excel supports hardware acceleration graphics images, and PowerPoint supports hardware acceleration animation, transitions, and playback and video effects; The slideshow element is now displayed as a sprite, which is then compiled with additional effects such as fades and wipes that are implemented using Pixel Shader 2.0. All Office 2010 applications support Accelerated Direct3D hardware and WordArt objects as well as text rendering. In addition, background image removal and adjustment features such as brightness and contrast are all accelerated when used on capable hardware.
Screenshot snapshot
Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word allow users to quickly enter screenshot of the open application window or on-screen content selection into a document without saving the image as a file. This functionality is exposed via the new Screenshot command on the Insert ribbon tab which, when clicked, displays individual options for capturing the application window or content selection. The previous option displays an open window as a thumbnail in the gallery on the ribbon that inserts a screenshot of the selected window into the active application, while the last option minimizes the currently active application, dims the screen, and displays the rectangle of choice for the user to create a screenshot by holding the main mouse button, dragging the selection rectangle to the desired area of ​​the screen, and then release the button to automatically insert the selection as an image into the document. Only windows that have not been minimized to the taskbar can be retrieved. Once a screenshot is inserted, various adjustments can be made.
SmartArt Enhancement
SmartArt, a set of diagrams introduced in Office 2007 for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word, has been updated with new effects, options, and interface enhancements. The SmartArt text panel now allows users to insert, modify, and rearrange the associated images and text in the diagram, and the Move Up command and Move Down on the ribbon facilitate content rearrangement. The image is automatically cropped when inserted into a form in the SmartArt diagram to maintain the aspect ratio; users can also manually reposition the image. During the pruning process, the layout of the form in the SmartArt diagram is locked to prevent the user from accidentally modifying the position when making adjustments to an image. About 50 new diagrams have been introduced. Of these, the new Image category dedicated to image representation includes over 30 diagrams, and the Organizational Chart category includes 3 new diagrams.
The new Conversion command on the SmartArt contextual tab on the ribbon includes additional features for Excel and PowerPoint. The Convert to Shapes command, a feature introduced in Office 2007 SP2 as a context menu option that converts SmartArt into a customizable group of forms, is now displayed as an option on the ribbon in both applications. Additionally, in PowerPoint, it is possible to convert a SmartArt chart into a poined list via the Convert to New text option.
Accessibility
Accessibility Checker
Office 2010 introduces Accessibility Checker features in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word that check documents for issues that can negatively impact a vision-impaired reader. The Accessibility Checker is accessible via the "Check the Problems" button in the Prepare to Sharing group on the Info tab of the Backstage view. Clicking on the button opens the task pane with a list of accessibility issues found in the document and also provides suggestions for resolving this issue. Backstage view also reports accessibility issues in the Prepare for Sharing group so they can be resolved before the document is shared with other users. Administrators can configure how prominent this information is displayed in the interface through Group Policy.
Language preferences
The Preferences Language Interface in Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, and Word are accessible in the Backstage view and replace the language-adjusting interface seen in earlier versions of Office. The new interface provides information about currently installed language packs and related components, hyperlinks to download additional content, and new TipType Language features that allow users to customize the language of the tip of the tool.
Text-to-speech Repair
Office Starter 2010 is an ad-supported product that was discontinued in June 2012, prior to the release of Office 2013 and Windows 8. This includes Word Starter and Excel Starter, reduced functionality for viewing, editing, and creating documents. Office Starter 2010 is only available for OEMs to preload on Windows PCs and is intended as a substitute for Microsoft Works; only compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Office Starter 2010 eliminates some of the features available in the retail edition. Word Starter can not insert footnotes, endnotes, quotes, indexes, captions, equations, or SmartArt, and does not support customization, macros, change tracking, full screen reading, or digital rights management. Excel Starter does not support PivotTable, PivotCharts, special view, external data connections, error checking, calculation steps, or circular references. Office Starter 2010 is the only edition that offers the To-Go Device Manager feature, which allows users to install productivity packages to a USB flash drive and run it temporarily on any computer with Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7 installed to where USB drive is connected.
Office Online
Office Online is a collection of versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and a free web-based Word that offers fewer features than its client counterparts. It was released to OneDrive users before the general availability of Office 2010.
Office Mobile 2010
Office Mobile 2010 was released before the general availability of Office 2010 clients as a free upgrade to users of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices with preinstalled versions of Office Mobile. Some of the new features in Office Mobile 2010 include:
- Conversation View: Outlook Mobile sends associated emails into groups for easy reading and management.
- Companion Presentation: The Add-ons for PowerPoint Mobile allow users to control the presentation via Windows Phone and display speaker notes.
- SharePoint Workspace Mobile: Users can sync documents from SharePoint servers directly to their Windows Phone for offline viewing and editing.
- Support for New Content in Office 2010: SmartArt graphics and charts can be displayed in Office Mobile.
System requirements
Reception
Critical reception
Office 2010 received most of the positive reviews once released, with special praise intended for the modified ribbon and the new Backstage view. Laptop Mag ranks the suite of 4 out of 5 stars, calling it the "best Office suite" for new ribbon-based customization options, new multimedia editing capabilities, new options for sharing online presentations via PowerPoint, and time application response; Microsoft's decision to include OneNote in all retail versions of Office 2010 also received high praise. PC Magazine also rated 4 out of 5 stars for the same reason; inclusion of bands in all applications is considered advantageous as it improves consistency and usability, and Backstage view is touted to simplify access to file management and printing options. However, PC Magazine expressed dissatisfaction with the "automatic intrusive" default format option in Word; lack of upgraded or price editions for previous versions of Office users; and stability of Office applications. However, Office 2010 is considered a "very exciting upgrade" that received the Editor and Choice award and Best of the Year 2010 magazine. Office 2010 also received positive reviews from Alphr , PC Advisor , PC World , and TechRadar .
Not all ratings and reviews are positive. InfoWorld considers Ribbon changed in Office 2010 to "irregular clutter", and the user interface convention becomes confusing because of the lack of consistency across routine functions. Backstage view is also criticized for "it contains a row of schizophrenic buttons, keypad menus, and hyperlink-like text labels" and because it is presented as a full-screen interface, not as a drop-down menu similar to Paint and WordPad in Windows 7. Sluggish performance is also the subject of criticism , although the review was written before product development has been officially resolved.
Reactions to various versions of the product, including the 64-bit version of Office 2010, are mixed. Ars Technica believes that Microsoft's transition to 64-bit versions of Office will facilitate the adoption of the 64-bit software industry. However, concerns about compatibility and performance issues were raised. After the product launch, Microsoft stated that "64-bit versions of Office 2010 are likely to introduce compatibility issues" and recommend 32-bit versions for most users; The Office 2010 setup program installs the 32-bit version by default unless a 64-bit version is installed on the target machine. In the departure from earlier versions of Office, Microsoft did not offer an upgraded version of Office 2010 - a move that was criticized for effectively increasing the cost of the product for users who had already run previous versions. While the new Product Key Card program is considered an affordable alternative to upgraded versions because of its affordable price when compared to full retail purchases, it presents an invisible restriction with the full retail version because its licenses prohibit the software to be transferred to other computers.
The Starter Edition of Office 2010 receives most positive reviews; a feature that is omitted from other editions of Office 2010 that receive praise is the To-Go Device Manager, which allows users to copy Office 2010 Starter installation files to USB flash drives and use their programs on other PCs, even where the version of Office is not installed. However, criticism is directed at the lack of functionality of the edition and its mandatory ads.
Sales
The initial two week sales of Office 2010 were lower than those previously observed with its predecessor suite, Office 2007, a fact considered by Stephen Baker of the NPD Group to be "disappointing." Baker attributes this lack of sales to "a slow seasonality for PC purchases" and an "increasingly saturated basis." Free alternatives to productivity packages like Google Docs are not considered to be detrimental in the adoption of Office 2010; However, this view is not owned by all journalists. Regardless of initial sales lower than expected, Office 2010 sales - particularly consumer sales - contributed to a record first quarter profit for Microsoft during fiscal 2011. While other products contribute to this record, the Microsoft Business Division, the division responsible for Office , earned the highest percentage of total revenue over this time period. On November 1, 2010, over six million copies of Office 2010 were sold, a number representing "over 30 copies sold every minute."
Details related to Microsoft's second-quarter earnings during fiscal year 2011 the company posted on January 27, 2011, indicating that the company has set a record for second-quarter earnings of $ 19.95 billion. Microsoft's Business Division grew 24% year-over-year, with Office 2010 becoming the fastest-selling consumer version of Office sales in history; Office 2010 license sales are also "more than 50% ahead of Office 2007 during the equivalent period after launch." The results during the company's fiscal third-quarter 2011 were then strong, with Microsoft Business division expecting to see "Office sales exceed PC demand in fiscal 2011."
On June 15, 2011, a year after Office 2010 general availability, Microsoft Office corporate vice president Takeshi Numoto stated that the deployment of productivity packages among business customers is "five times faster" than its predecessor, Office 2007, and the latest version is "the most consumer version in demand from Office ever "with copies sold every second since the product was launched; previous claims made by Microsoft in January during the Consumer Electronics Show. Based on this claim, World Network estimates that approximately 31.5 million licenses have been sold since the launch of Office 2010. Office Online has proven to be popular too, with Nuoto claiming to have seen over 50 million unique visitors since launch. In July 2011, more than 100 million licenses were sold, contributing to record Q4 revenues and annual revenues. However, year-on-year consumer revenue for Office has dropped 8 percent, although revenues from the Microsoft Business Division have increased by 27 percent over the same period. During the second quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2012, the company reported revenues of $ 20.9 billion - another record for the company - with Office 2010 becoming a contributing factor, after selling nearly 200 million licenses on December 31, 2011, despite a decline in Windows sales.
Microsoft reportedly stopped selling Office 2010 on January 31, 2013, just two days after its successor, Office 2013, achieved general availability.
Enterprise implementation
According to a survey conducted by market research firm Forrester Research in 2011 with a sample of 150 executives of North American and European companies, Office 2010 was used by 52% of respondents, behind Office 2003 or earlier and Office 2007 on 74% and 72% each. In the 2013 survey, Office 2010 was the dominant suite of productivity when compared to previous versions and competitors' offerings with a total share of 85% usage among 155 survey respondents.
See also
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
- Office suite comparisons
- List of office suites
References
External links
- Official website
- Office 2010 product guides
- Download for Office 2010
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