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Office 2010 technical preview: First look review

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Under the various UI tweaks, Microsoft has done a lot of work on Office 2010.

Improved collaboration tools are one aspect of these changes, but we won’t really see what they mean until the August release of the Office web applications – and the October arrival of SharePoint 2010.

Is this the Office for you? It’s certainly an improvement over Office 2007, but at this point we’re looking at a lot of incremental changes, fine tuning Office’s productivity features and adding better ways of visualising and sharing information.

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It's nice to see Microsoft adding sparklines to Excel charts. Does this mean that Microsoft is finally paying attention to the data visualization community? I'm not so sure. Hopefully, Microsoft will also solve many of the issues in its new (Excel 2007) chart engine.

By JorgeCamoes on Monday Jul 13

Sparklines for Excel

I have to agree with Jorge. I have my doubts that Excel 2010 will be any better than Excel 2007 for effective data visualization. For sparklines that work with older Excel version (Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007) have a look on MicroCharts http://www.bonavistasystems.com Andreas

By Andreas on Wednesday Jul 15

No business reason to upgrade or purchase Office 2010

Nothing beneficial for most businesses - no reason to upgrade/purchase - Like Vista - all bling - no function. If they wanted to improve Office they SHOULD have - 1. Made outlook open multiple e-mail accounts as full exchange -not an additional mailbox with some functionality or pop/imap with very limited functionality but two seperate exchange profiles simultaneously from multiple exchange servers. 2. Full OLE support for pictures in access - umm wasn't that functional with Office XP - why take that out? Why should someone have to code to add pictures to a personal database? Might was well use oracle or a real database if you are going to have to use code. Adding Office XP photo editor is the work around but why not just add photo editor back into office if that is the solution? 3. Offer the old menu bar for people (most of my clients) who don't want to learn the new menu bar. You can finally modify the ribbon to some extent in 2010 however my clients just want their old ribbon bar. Frankly I have no issue with the new menu bar but I'm one person and most of my clients don't like it so prefer to stick with office 2003. MS could make money selling the new version if they just offered the old menu as a choice with the new ribbon.

By boe_d on Monday Nov 9