Yesterday , Microsoft had made an announcement of next version of Office 2010 reached its Technical Preview engineering milestone at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.

Starting today, tens of thousands of people will be invited to test Office and Visio as part of the Technical Preview program.

Office Web applications will be available in three ways: through Windows Live, where more than 400 million consumers will have access to Office Web applications at no cost; on-premises for all Office volume licensing customers including more than 90 million Office annuity customers; and via Microsoft Online Services, where customers will be able to purchase a subscription as part of a hosted offering.

Office Web application will be containing Cross platform and Cross Browsing support, means you can run office application on any browser on linux or mac platform or even in iPhones. No need to install Silverlight and other plugins.

Other links to check out:

• Press release.
• Official Videos on Office 2010 products
• The Microsoft Office 2010 site
• http://www.office2010themovie.com/
• Channel 9’s video of Office 2010
• The keynote speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference, announcing Microsoft Office 2010.

Office 2010 TP is going to be released soon with lots of new features and function with awesome cool looks. One of the best function of Word 2010 is “Text Effect”. It applies the visual effects to the selected text such as shadow, reflection and glow. Prior that Office 2007 doesn’t contains this facility, though it was only available in PowerPoint 2007.

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