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Microsoft Office 2010I don’t know what timezone Microsoft’s web servers are running on, but it’s revealed the much anticipated Office 2010 release in great detail way ahead of the expected official announcement at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference 2009.

Thanks to an earlier tip from Rafael Rivera on Twitter who noted hours ago the Office 2010 mini-site has gone live (update: now removed but Google Cache caught it), it appears just now the placeholder videos too have gone live with real Office 2010 preview videos, including the much anticipated Office Web applications plus some interesting new features never seen before.

Without a further ado, I’ll let the videos do the talking. Here’s a couple of videos discussing the most interesting applications (and online services) in the suite.

See What’s New in Microsoft Office 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft Word 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft Excel 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft Outlook 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft OneNote 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft Web Applications 2010

See What’s New in Microsoft Mobile 2010

You can find videos on the rest of the Office suite at the Office 2010 website.

Update: The videos appear to be up and down for some reason, if it says “an error has occured”, in which case just refresh the page and they should reappear. Microsoft seems to have noticed and removed the videos.

Update 2: Uploading alternative cached copies of the videos right now.


39 Comments

  1. Glen

    Can I assume these are Silverlight 3-supplied/based videos? because they start instantly! Very impressive.

  2. atul

    you can always grab the screenshot of the Office 2010 minisite via Google cache.

  3. Avatar X

    @Glen: yes, totally awesome the bump in performance and responsiveness post Silverlight 3 RTW.

  4. Sven

    @Glen: I don’t have Silverlight 3 on this machine yet, and the videos still work and start instantly.

  5. tom

    all nice… now I just want MS to get of their high horse and finally offer a good version of Office 2010 for Mac as well as Mobile Office for iPhone.

    did anyone else notice this… wow… Monica is really excited about the new web application features… not.

  6. Nick

    All I’m getting now is “Sorry, System is temporarily unavailable”. Not a great sign of things to come. I wonder whether they’ve fixed “Not Responding” in the office products….

  7. David

    nice, there are some great features here, nice to see elements of google apps & google wave showing up in outlook 2010. Great to see they are running some of their web applications in Firefox, but how would they work in Safari or Chrome?

    The videos do seem to be doing strange things, such as playback doesnt seem to work, the page has to be refreshed, but maybe thats just silverlight..?

  8. Fred

    They’re down for me.. did anyone catch anything about OneNote? I wonder what’s new there.

  9. Long Zheng

    @Fred: Just keep refreshing until it’s back. Something is horribly wrong with their servers.

  10. Nick

    It seems to be coming and going. Didn’t catch the OneNote one but the voice on the web apps one almost lulled me to sleep….

  11. David

    @Fred

    The points that i got about onenote was
    Share all your web clippings and notes from the road with co-workers
    Share all your documents and colloborate
    Can easily view who has made changes to shared documents

  12. anon

    Can’t watch videos at 256 kbps. :-( Any way to download Silverlight streamed videos? The crappy player they use on all sites (Channel9, Technet Edge etc) doesn’t even seem to cache the bufferred part of the video so if you’ve got a slower connection, you can’t let it buffer completely then watch it without interruptions. Typical Microsoft. :-(

  13. anon

    What’s new in Publisher 2010:
    http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/00dcbcf8-0c49-4299-9ca2-1 de7bbd8777d

    What’s new in SharePoint Workspace (Groove) 2010:
    http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/755f7866-f95c-4d8a-a904-d 80154413444

    The “Watch as WMV” option seems better if you’ve got an MMS protocol download manager.

  14. Mahesh Devjibhai Dhola

    The link for “Office 2010 mini-site has gone live” is working now – http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/ which is active now.

  15. Quppa

    So, is Ars Technica correct in saying that the build to be distributed to testers soon will be the Technical Preview that was leaked a couple of months ago? http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/leaked-newer-office-2010 -technical-preview-build.ars

  16. tom

    @anon,

    YouTube buffers now in the same way. I assume they do it so they don’t buffer the entire clip (and waste bandwidth) if someone skips ahead in the video.

    From what I can tell this is how HTTP streaming (as proposed by Apple) will work once it finds it’s way into products.

  17. Ronald Chew

    Psst, the videos are still here, alive and kickin’! There are also some articles on the new features. heh.

    http://www.microsoft.com/officebusiness/office2010/

  18. Fred

    Ugh, that sounds like the only additions to OneNote are collaborative stuff. That’s pretty useless for home users.

  19. David

    @Fred

    That technical review information posted by @Ronald seems to have some more details..

    Microsoft OneNote 2010, shared notebooks let anyone “on the network” make changes, add content, or comment—and all changes are tracked and highlighted so you can easily see what’s new

    http://www.microsoft.com/officebusiness/office2010/

  20. David

    Its a sad point to notice but the technical review site, is actually still powered by Live Search… maybe thats why the product news is leaking…?

    http://twitpic.com/a7qe3

  21. Stephen

    @Tom – LOL! I was about to comment saying the same thing. Monica Mendoza lives up to her last name, because her presentation was a real… doza?

    Yikes… well, at least I’m not lacking in the cheesy department! =P

    -Stephen

  22. Laptops

    Thanks for the news! Very exciting watching this all unfold as MS puts up and takes down the site. It’s funny how Google cache caught the page.

  23. anon

    @tom, YouTube (or most Flash-based players) allow buffering till the end and then play it from the beginning without interruption as it is already buffered (cached in memory and in case of YouTube cached to disk as well recently). Moreover Flash-streamed videos can be saved by dozens of “video dowloaders”. Silverlight-steamed videos are streamed but not buffered so they can be played again, they’re only bufferred a few seconds earlier enough to play the frame that is playing, so view them again, AFAIK the whole thing has to be streamed by the server again.

  24. bluvg

    Long, in the Excel video, he talks about a “SharePoint-*compatible* server.” Any insight on what besides SharePoint itself is “SharePoint compatible?”

  25. Phusky Phunsar

    The web applications’ presenter sounds like a massage therapist.

  26. Krishna Santani

    This time they come out with some compelling features.. Its true that competition takes out the best from you…!!

  27. McAkins

    Ayca is the most professional of them all, but can’t blame them sounding goofy, they are Software Program Managers, don’t expect them to be slick TV Presenters you all know, I bet they didn’t plan a TV carreer when they choose to become geeks.

    And I think I like the improvements in Outlook the most, but I am still not convinced all these will make me wait in line to buy Office 2010 when it comes out.

  28. mVPstar

    They all seem half-awake. Man they must have been working hard. :P

  29. David

    What i think is interesting is that they have dropped the level of quality on the videos showing at the official website http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

    but they do seem to play a little faster now… still a shame they are making the videos lower quality….

  30. Kate

    Great article, Long! You can also enjoy Office 2010 videos right now on the Office Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=microsoft+office&init=q&sid=0#/microso ftoffice?v=app_17037175766&viewas=7300773

    For more information and conversation, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@Office).

    Cheers,
    Kate
    MSFT Office Outreach Team

  31. Mitch

    Off-topic question: Does anyone know where the background music an be obtained or what it’s called?

  32. Huy

    I thought Monica was a robot.

  33. Jason

    This has to be better than Zoho or Google Docs if there will be SkyDrive integration

  34. Bombastic

    Wow! I think this Monica charecter is a way cool robot, if indeed that is what she is. Do you think microsoft has a lot of these robots just running around? Can they really be classified as “geeks” or are they turly victims of vile Microsoft techies trying to throw robots willy nilly in random videos around the net I’m appalled if this is the case. I will stick to my notepad and pen thank you very much. And if I need to collaborate, communicate or coagulate (i forgot the third “C”) then I will just crumple up a peice of paper and throw it as far as I can with the hope it gets to the right person.

  35. al

    Wow, SOOO not impressed. The improvements here are minor and IMHO still behind their time.

  36. tom

    @Al,

    A lot of the real improvements will only be seen by those folks that have the entire MS infrastructure in place to support the collaborative features on the back end…

    … only problem is that probably 80% of users (even in corporates) only ever use:

    - Word for well… as a glorified type writer.
    - Powerpoint… to create presentations based on a template they have been given
    - Excel… to do basic Spreadsheet stuff they could have done in MS Works

    I think that’s the exact reason why Google docs has gained popularity in some corporate environments. I think Web Office is a step in the right direction for them, assuming I don’t have to invest another big lump of money to support it on the back-end. After all Windows and Office are the two parts that make up Microsoft’s cash cow.

  37. mrmckeb

    @Tom.

    Silverlight. Beats Flash streaming hands-down.

  38. Robert Stuczysnki

    Only conversation mode in Mobile Outlook :(

  39. chris

    I am operating windows xp and all the videos work instantly and fine, my processor is ancient and i have no memory lol, less is more!!!!!

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