Office 2010 News & Articles

With the launch of Office 2010 out of the way Microsoft has turned its attention to improving its email service Hotmail and document sharing abilities. There have also been a number of releases to improve data storage, not least of which is NetApp's new offering for SharePoint 2010.

With the launch of Office 2010, the business community is buzzing with the Office 2010 vs. Google Docs debate, but its still not entirely clear as to what is best for SMBs. Meanwhile, Sage launches cloud payment software for small companies.

At a very high level, SharePoint 2007 can integrate with Office 2003-2010 to some degree. But in 2010, we are finally seeing a larger acknowledgment that users enjoy working from Outlook. Office, and Outlook in general, is still the command center for many firms, and there’s no reason to change that part of your corporate culture.

Here are some of the new features you get when SharePoint 2010 (news, site) and Office 2010 get together.

As every company and its dog leaps to announce its love and support for the new SharePoint 2010 platform, Open Text (news, site) joins in the fun.

Microsoft finally got around to launching Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (news, site) at a scheduled event in New York that was big on PR and small on new detail, or details that haven’t already been flagged before.

The big news, if it really is news, this week will be the business launch of Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Everyone will be watching in the coming weeks to see what happens with Google Docs, while IBM adds text analytics for social media to SPSS’ Modeler.

With the upcoming releases of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, Central Desktop (news, site) is busily pushing itself into the niche created by users that need the functionality but not the price tag. Last week it added Web Folders, this week it unveiled CentralDesktop For Office that greatly enhances document collaboration for Office users.

More this week about the ongoing Google Docs -- Microsoft Office tit-for-tat with the addition of Office 2010 capabilities to Facebook. Google shrugs it off and upgrades app for Outlook migration.

Microsoft has received a lot of attention this week with the technical preview version of its soon-to-be-released upgraded Dynamics CRM and the announcement of no mobile Office solution for the iPhone. Google also kept Microsoft in the news patching a glitch in the connector between Outlook and Gmail accounts. But it wasn't all about Microsoft - not completely.

As the upcoming releases of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 draw closer, I’ve been highlighting some of the best new features that will be available this spring. This time, I’ll show you a very exciting feature that will allow your end users to work on their Office documents in a zero-client environment from within SharePoint 2010.

The release date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is out and about, but not everyone is happy with some of the details. Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company has ambitions with this release for a fully functioning Office in the cloud.

We've been focused on learning about the upcoming versions of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. But Microsoft also has another product just out as a CTP (community technology preview) -- SQL Server 2008 R2.

Originally codenamed SQL Server Kilimanjaro, SQL Server 2008 R2 has a number of new features and functionality that will focus on business intelligence and reporting.

100 million licenses and 4,000 partners later, Microsoft thinks they have a handle on this SharePoint phenonemon (news, site). There's been a lot of talk about the next release, much speculation. Now Microsoft gives us a bird's eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.

Finally. Microsoft has come forward with some news about the next version of SharePoint.

First, we have an official name: SharePoint 2010. Not overly innovative, but at least we can all agree on what to call it now.

There are numerous ways to market your product or service these days. One way that appears to be happening more and more is the application marketplace. Similar to Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, these marketplaces allow you to build up a suite of services and manage them all from a single interface.

Etelos Marketplace is an example of this type of marketplace and eTouch’s SamePage enterprise wiki is one the latest services to be available in their marketplace.