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Posted on July 13th, 2009 by Simon Jones
Office 2010 Applications & Editions
The, invitation only, Office 2010 Technical Preview has finally started and Microsoft have released details of which applications are going to be available in which editions of the Office suite.
As the information is a little difficult to take in, I thought I’d do a quick summary table.
The main changes are the reduction of the number of editions from eight to five and the fact that the Small Business Edition (which had more applications than Standard Edition) is retired and replaced by the new Home & Business Edition (which has fewer applications than Standard Edition). Another change is that Standard Edition is only going to be available through Volume Licensing.
Some very good news is that all editions will now carry OneNote. Hooray!
Update: Just for clarification, the spot against Web Apps in the table above is the right to run the new Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote web based applications on your own server hardware. Everyone will have access to the Web Apps free through Office Live or through a hosted subscription service.
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July 13th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
As usual I find Publisher to be hardest hit. This is a very good bit of software which to my miind is way under valued, and we can see why now.. you either buy it as an individual app at £120+ approx or as part of Professional – especially now that Standard will be Volume licence only! I don’t know how many families would ever need or use Access but I do know many that do and would use Publisher for flyers, posters, cards..etc..as Word is so bad at handling images and texted mixed together for a decent non-time consuming document.
As for OneNote – the only use I would have for it would be with a tablet PC or digi-pen to use the writing/note taking facility. I would much rather the home & student edition had Publisher instead of OneNote.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Yes, Publisher is hit hard, now only appearing, for retail users, in Professional Edition, but it has always been bit of a Cinderalla application and often despised as hard to use or not as good as some rival DTP packages. The 2010 overhaul with the new Ribbon Interface and alignment technology inherited from Visual Studio make a big difference but it is still hampered by old, and very American looking, templates. Perhaps that will change.
OneNote is useful on desktops and laptops, not just Tablet PCs. Its not just about handwriting. Its about gathering information from many different sources – web pages, other applications – and organising it. Once you’ve gathered the information it can be used to inform decisions or rearranged, pasted into other applications, formatted and turned into finished documents.
OneNote has long deserved a wider audience and I’m very glad it has finally got it.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 14th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Gah! Home and Student doesn’t get Outlook, again! Given that Windows 7 does away with a built in mail client (you need to download the Live Mail client), I find this to be a slip up…
And the “Standard” version can’t be purchased? How can it be the *?*?ing standard version, when you can’t buy it? :-S
OneNote seems to be missing from the list. Has this been dropped?
July 14th, 2009 at 6:36 am
David Wright
OneNote is the fourth application on the table in the original post and all editions will now carry it.
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro
July 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Thanks for that Simon.
Still don’t understand how the “standard” version can be the standard version, if you can’t actually buy it!
July 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
David,
You can buy the Standard edition but only through the Volume Licencing (VL) route, not retail. Microsoft sell far more licences through VL than through retail channels so VL is the normal way to sell for them.
You only need to be buying five licences (of any combination of Microsoft products) to qualify for VL deals. If you’re kitting out three PCs with Windows and Office, you’re already buying six licences and VL may be better value than retail.
Open Value Licences allow you to spread the cost over three years and include Software Assurance (SA) so you can upgrade to the next version as soon as it is released and extras such as desktop & laptop licences for each user, “At Home” use and extra training.
If you’ve just got one or two PCs and don’t update them with each new release, retail (Full Package Product), Upgrade or OEM licences may be more cost effective.
Beware, however, that OEM licences die with the computer so if you have an OEM version of an applicaiton, you can’t use the application when you buy a new PC. You have to buy the application again even if you’ve bought an upgrade to a new version in the meantime. To keep using the application for ever you have to buy FPP Retail (and then upgrades) or VL (with SA).
Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
PC Pro