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Microsoft's Office 2010 will be released in June and is packed with features to keep it ahead of the competition

Microsoft's Office 2010 is now available in beta and scheduled to be released in June next year. This new release of the popular office productivity suite is both an ambitious one for the software maker as well as being a very important one.

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Comments (2)

but not smaller size, lower price, less bugs.

So you can embed a YouTube video in a presentation - how often is that needed?

OneNote is included by default (more bloat).

Sandboxing of documents - why not fix the security problems that requires it?

Screen capture? Does Windows 7 disable the Alt-PrtScrn capture to the clipboard? Why can't Paint do it?
More creeping featurism mostly, but the ability to embed a youtube (and hopefully other flv videos) is a huge step. The current version pretends that no such thing exists, so you have to download the video and convert it to an avi or wmv (no mp4s, because WMP pretends those don't exist either).

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1969838,00.asp

But you'll notice the most important feature is still missing: the ability to customize the "ribbon". That makes it a non-starter for me. I still struggle to find things that were obvious in previous editions. And why does it insist on searching the internet instead of its own help file?

(Of course when KDE introduced the customizable "places" bar in Dolphin it forgot to make it customizable in Konqueror, but I'm not too bitter about that.)

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