Today Microsoft has unveiled the retail price of their Office 2010. Microsoft Office 2010 will be available in four different versions :  Office Home and Student will have Word, PowerPoint Excel and OneNote 2010. Office Home and Business will be going to have Word, PowerPoint Excel ,Outlook and OneNote 2010 , Office Professional and Office Academic will to have Word, PowerPoint Excel ,Outlook, Publisher, Access and OneNote 2010 and .

Microsoft Office 2010 Retail Pricing Comparison Chart January 2010

Version		Full Packaged Product	Product Key Card
	Word 2010 Excel 2010 PowerPoint 2010 OneNote 2010	$149	$119
	Word 2010 Excel 2010 PowerPoint 2010 OneNote 2010 Outlook 2010	$279	$199
	Word 2010 Excel 2010 PowerPoint 2010 OneNote 2010 Outlook 2010 Publisher 2010 Access 2010	$499	$349
	Word 2010 Excel 2010 PowerPoint 2010 OneNote 2010 Outlook 2010 Publisher 2010 Access 2010	$99	NA

• Office Home and Student boxed product is available in a Family Pack, allowing usage on three PCs in one house
• Purchase rights for Office Home and Business, Office Professional, and Office Professional Academic boxed product allow for usage on two of your PCs.
• The Product Key Card is valid for a single installation of the product

All prices are estimated retail prices and may vary by retailer.

Office Home and Student would not be used in any commercial, nonprofit or revenue-generating activities, or by any government organization.

Office Professional Academic 2010 is available through authorized academic resellers only.

Microsoft delivering Office 2010 Beta via Click-to-Run, a streaming technology for use on high-speed internet connections.
If you are not on a high-speed connection, please download Office Professional 2010 Beta instead.

Installing your Microsoft Office 2010 product using Click-to-Run allows you to begin using your Office programs while download and installation continues in the background. Click-to-Run Office 2010 products are installed side-by-side with previous releases of Office products and no upgrade option will be provided. Click-to-Run is intended for use on reliable high-speed internet connections

Download Office 2010 Beta

Microsoft Office 2010 beta is now available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Microsoft is expected to open up the beta, so that anyone who’d like to try it can download it possibly by the end of this week. Office 2010 beta is available for 32 and 64 bit processors but Office 2010 beta web app is only available for 64 bit computers and there is no information available on MSDN or TechNet when it would be available for 32 bit computers.

The most significant change in this Beta Build from the Technical Preview is the new installation procedure for test versions of Office 2010 SKUs, Upload Center, modified version of Backstage view and new refreshed icons for all Office products.

Microsoft has set up a public download page for Office 2010 beta. This download page lists all versions of Office 2010 will be available for download including Office Home and Business 2010; Office Professional 2010 and Office Professional Plus 2010.

pptPlex adds functionality to PowerPoint 2007 allowing you to Zoom in and out in sections of power point slides. With all of the slides visible at once you could easily pick up a slide so you could discuss its points, then put it down and grab another, or even hold 2 slides side-by-side so you could easily compare them. pptPlex gives PowerPoint this flexibility; you can move to and from slides easily with transitions so smooth that you can jump all over your presentation without ever getting lost.

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The Microsoft Office Outlook team has released a series of cumulative updates to improve performance and reliability. Outlook team consolidated all these updates into a single package. This update contains a significant number of new performance-focused improvements for Outlook users. After installing these updates, Outlook users will definitely feel a high level of performance  improvement in Outlook 2007.

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On November 18,2008 Microsoft has announced that, they are planning to offer a new consumer security offering focused on core anti-malware protection. This solution will be offer to consumers at no charge. Code-named “Morro,” this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. This new solution will be developed in such a way that it will use less computing resources and ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios. Microsoft also announced that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare subscription service effective June 30, 2009.

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On November 17,2008 Sun has released the latest version of it’s office productivity suite that is StarOffice 9. StarOffice 9.0 comes with the native support for Mac OS X. Star Office 9.0 is developed on top of Open Office 3.0. StarOffice 9.0 uses Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client and Lightning extension for calendaring as part of its distribution. The suite includes many extensions that make it easier to perform common tasks such as editing PDF files, creating reports, blogging, and publishing wikis.

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On November 13, 2008 Lenovo announced ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive. These new hard drives help mobile customers to protect their data in an easy to use manner. ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drives are available in 160GB and 320 GB versions connected with keyboard to allows hard drive users to enter their password to get access to data. ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive meets the 128-bit advanced encryption security standard that make sure that your sensitive data is secure and real-time encryption means users don’t have to wait for the “lag time” that typically accompanies encrypted drives. The hard drive features full-disk encryption for up to ten unique user ID’s and one administrator, making it an ideal tool for ThinkPad notebook PC users on-the-go or collaborating at work. Additionally, the self-powered hard drive eliminates the hassle of keeping up with power cords, and a convenient built-in USB cable makes transferring data simple and stores in the hard drive’s housing when not in use.

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Now there is no need to create a separate account for accessing ThinkFree online office suite. ThinkFree now supports sign with Google account credentials. All of the ThinkFree office suite services are not free, ThinkFree offers My Office as free online office suite application. ThinkFree also added PDF Viewer to office suite application. This new PDF Viewer allow users to view PDF documents without installing any PDF reader application mainly Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader.

Spammers are now using Reputation hijacking. Spammers sending requests for joining Yahoo Groups, When users click on the join Yahoo Group link they will be directed to a Yahoo Group page but they also get an ad that is there for serving the malware. If you join this group you will get a gift mail and most importantly your email is a part of yahoo group that is being run by a spammer. So be careful before joining to any yahoo groups that comes in the form of invitation.

Here’s the HTML code they’re using (for fun, see if you can spot the mistake they made).

Source : Clever new spam ruse