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Recently, Microsoft has pubiced that the next generationg office software suite Office 2010 technical preview edition. Microsoft officials said that Office 2010 is improve more that old Microsoft Office 2007 or former version Office.

Different from Office 2007, Office 2010 has shrinked its version number from 8 to 5, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus. totally. Standard and Professional can only been obtained authorised in batch.

In Basic Microsoft Office 2010 version, Home and Student, there are only 3 components, Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and OneNote. But the professional plus edition will contain all componets: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, OneNote etc. Office 2010 aslo applies Ribbon toolbar, and OpenXML format saving technology, making your document and data more safely than former. But the most important improvement is that Microsoft published a Office web version, which is avaible for users who has Windows Live account without any payment.

Key features of Microsoft Office 2010

Brand new file saving format, Open XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
Ribbon toolbar makes operating more conveniently and clearly.
A free web Office version that let you work effciently online.
Backstage view will help you print out better quality paper file.

Now Office 2010 is just a technical priview version, and Microsoft said the terminal Office 2010 will be released in May or June next year.

From Office 2007, that is the last edition Office, Microsoft introduced a brand new file format, Open XML, which is more smaller but safer than former Office default file format. Actually, Open XML is a compression file, if you modify its extension name to .zip. You will open the Open XML saved file with WinZip etc. tool. But this file format will not be read by old version Office 97, 2000, XP and Office 2003. It will work if you install a compability hotfix package to old version Office.