Microsoft finalizes Office 2010

[donizme]

Yeah, it's ridiculous that they cram all those suites and apps into one ISO. I guess the purpose is since it goes to VL customers to let them install and pay for whatever they want.

If you want to slim things down by removing the multiple apps/suites, delete the *.WW folders for anything you don't want. I'd personally get rid of all of them except for Pro Plus, Visio, and Project Pro's WW folders.

You save lots of space in the ISO, and when you run the setup it will show Pro Plus, Visio, and Project Pro only.

Yeah that's what I would to to an extent. I'd save the original ISO to the DVD though because it won't make a difference to the size etc. But yeah when saving to the HDD, it's definitely a better idea to trim it.

I don't know much about this KMS thing, just that it's a key management service. Does that mean it comes with a genuine or corporate key or something? Or do we have to do the hard work to get our hands on them? B)

[CODYQX4]

Yeah, it's ridiculous that they cram all those suites and apps into one ISO. I guess the purpose is since it goes to VL customers to let them install and pay for whatever they want.

If you want to slim things down by removing the multiple apps/suites, delete the *.WW folders for anything you don't want. I'd personally get rid of all of them except for Pro Plus, Visio, and Project Pro's WW folders.

You save lots of space in the ISO, and when you run the setup it will show Pro Plus, Visio, and Project Pro only.

Yeah that's what I would to to an extent. I'd save the original ISO to the DVD though because it won't make a difference to the size etc. But yeah when saving to the HDD, it's definitely a better idea to trim it.

I don't know much about this KMS thing, just that it's a key management service. Does that mean it comes with a genuine or corporate key or something? Or do we have to do the hard work to get our hand on them? B)

I don't know if we need a key.

KMS just licenses it for 180 days, but you can use it over and over. A key we could activate permanently would be best, but since ALL keys need activated, any leaked key can be blocked.

I think someone should come up with a patch that activates (remember phone activation all zero's patch for 2007), or something.

I don't think the KMS will get blocked without the intervention of OGA or a possible OAT update, but I'd rather be permanently activated and not have a KMS crack service installed and running on my PC constantly to keep me activated. I'd rather get bricked by an update and go DL a new patch to unbrick.

Something of interest I heard though: VLK office can be run without activation forever without any loss of features, but it will nag you, so someone could just patch the nags, and make it say activated just for looks. I doubt that would pass OGA downloads, but I've never needed anything from MS that required OGA, I can find a template somewhere else or do without.

[harpua]

I installed the leaked final Office Pro Plus suite. Using as a trial until I can get my key from Technet hopefully in a few days (April 22, I hear). It's very nice from what I can see, only playing with Outlook so far. More polished than the beta I was using before.

[nsane.forums]

Following a public beta with more than 7.5 million participants--three times the beta participation for Office 2007--Microsoft has signed off on Office 2010 and released it to manufacturing (RTM). Google may have drawn first blood with the recent changes to Google Docs, but Microsoft is aggressively taking on Google on its home turf with Office 2010.

The next-generation of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite has reached RTM.The RTM milestone means that the next-generation flagship productivity suite will be available to begin burning retail discs and for OEM manufacturers to begin developing images that include Office 2010 to be pre-installed on new PC's. Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president for Microsoft Office, declared on the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog "RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release and our engineering team has poured their heart and soul into reaching this milestone."

Above and beyond the normal evolution of features and advancement of the user experience that are to be expected with a major update to the Microsoft Office productivity suite, Microsoft is also making some bold moves to defend the suite against Google, and, in fact, take the fight into Google's back yard--the Internet.

With Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft is including Web-based versions of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Users can store files in the cloud with the Windows Live SkyDrive, and seamlessly transition from working with the Office 2010 Web Apps, to working with the same files using the more comprehensive features of their desktop equivalents.

That is great for those who have the discretionary cash to buy Office 2010 for the desktop, but what about the users who don't? Well Microsoft thought of that too. That is why Microsoft is also offering a free version--sort of an Office 2010 Lite--that will be pre-installed on Windows-based PC's instead of the ubiquitous, but rarely used, Microsoft Works that users are accustomed to.

The two primary advantages that Google has capitalized on with Google Docs are cost--it's hard to beat free--and cloud-based availability. With Office 2010, Microsoft is competing head-to-head with Google in these two areas while also leveraging the overwhelming dominance and popularity of Microsoft Office.

The availability of Microsoft Office 2010 will be rolled out in phases. The productivity suite will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers this week, followed by availability to Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing customers, then volume license customers without Software Assurance, followed by the general availability of Microsoft Office 2010 for retail consumers sometime in June.

Microsoft will be hosting a major virtual launch event for Microsoft Office 2010 on May 12. Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, will deliver the keynote speech, and the launch will include product demonstrations, customer testimonials, interviews with product managers and Microsoft executives. Visit http://www.the2010event.com for more information or to add the event details to your Outlook calendar.

Google has been determined to break out of its mold and become a serious alternative for the Microsoft Office productivity suite for both consumers and businesses. While Google has made tremendous strides, Microsoft is apparently not going to sit back and watch. With a free version of Office 2010, and Web-based access to the products users are most familiar with, the challenge for Google just got exponentially tougher.

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