Selecting the version of Microsoft Office and how to activate it. Comparison of Microsoft Office versions Integrated content management

Main differences Word2010 fromWord 2007.

Plastic bag Microsoft 2010 was released in 2010 and contains, like previous office suites, the programWord. In the future we will call this programWord 2010 . As can be seen from the figure below, the main functions of the program remain the same, but there are also differences.

In this article we will describe the existing differences betweenWord 2007 And Word 2010 . Below is a picture showing the windows that open when programs are launched, above isWord 2007 , below - Word2010 .

1. File tab. As can be seen from the figure, the tab home contains approximately the same buttons with modes in both versions. There are the same tabs in both versions of the program. However, button modesOffice() in version 2007, which called the main modes, went to the tab File.

The modes by button are shown belowOffice() in version 2007.

And the File tab version 2010.

In version 2010, the print window has changed slightly, since the parameters are in a slightly different sequence, and a window has appeared in which you can see what the sheet will look like after printing (on the right).

Print mode windowWord 2007 .

Print mode windowWord 2010 .

2. Snapshot mode. In the tab Insert Snapshot mode appeared , which allows you to take a snapshot of the monitor screen. When you click on the button for this mode, options for open windows of other programs will appear below. If you click on them, the snapshot (drawing) will appear in the text of the document.

3. Text Wrap Mode. Text wrapping mode has appeared on the tabPage layout. Previously, it was called only by the right button - mode Figure format.

4 Drawing Format mode. The remaining tabs have approximately the same modes. If you double-click the left mouse button on the picture, a tab will appear at the top Format , which is slightly different from the previous version. The figure below shows the left and right parts of the window of two versions of the program (with top version 2007, bottom 2010).

5 Setting up panels. In version 2007, unlike previous versionsWord, it was impossible to customize (change) panels on tabs. This was changed in version 2010. If you right-click on the name of the tab, the mode will appear in the panel that appears Ribbon customization.

Select this mode, and a window will appear on the screen for changing the front panel buttons.

Select the desired button on the left side of the window, then select the panel on which you want to install it and click on the button Add . Delete button is designed to remove a button from the front panel. You can also create your own tab or group of buttons. After creating a folder, it is advisable to rename it. To do this, right-click on the name and select mode Rename.

There are other differences, such as the ability to work with the format. odt.

How the Office 2010 user interface differs from previous versions of Microsoft Office

The functionality of every application in Microsoft Office 2010 has been improved in many areas. After the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, a significant change from Office 2003 was the introduction of the Ribbon in the user interface for Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2007, and parts of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. The user interface consisted of collections of menus and toolbars has been replaced by a single ribbon structure. The 2010 version of Microsoft Office retains the ribbon and introduces additional features.

The Ribbon is now available in all 2010 Office editions, so you can easily switch between applications. In addition to the ribbon changes, the background in the 2010 Office editions is now gray by default, as opposed to the 2007 version of Office which had a blue background. For more information about changes in Office 2010, see .

Difference table

The following table describes the differences between Office 2010, Office 2007, and Office 2003 interface elements.

Interface element	Office 2010	Office 2007	Office 2003
Menus and Tabs	The Ribbon replaces the menus and toolbars in all Office 2010 products and can be completely customized to suit your preferences.	The Ribbon replaces menus and toolbars in Access 2007, Office Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007, and parts of Outlook 2007.	Only menus and toolbars are available.
Task panes		Groups of commands on the ribbon and the ability to customize.	Standard task pane
QAT Quick Access Toolbar	Possibility of full customization.	Introduced in version 2007.	Not available.
Backstage view	Additional tools outside the document viewing window.	A limited set of tools available from the Microsoft Office Button menu.	Limited selection of items on the menu File
Digital signatures	Located in the section Document details | Document protection Backstage views.	Formatted using XMLDSig, located in the section File | Complete document | Signatures.	Located in the section Service | Options | Safety | Digital signatures
	Improved compared to version 2007.	Design tools are available in all Microsoft Office applications.	Not available.
Open ODT format	Included in this version.	Added in Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2).	Not available.
Integration with Windows Live blog editor	Blogging capabilities in the application.	Not available.	Not available.
Spell Checker	The spell checker is now combined with an automatic correction feature.		Standard spell checker.
Embed Preview	Live preview before inserting. Avoids using a button Cancel.	Insert, undo, insert.	Standard insertion capabilities.
	Backstage view combines printing with preview, layout mode, and other printing options.	Microsoft Office Button; Printing uses a limited set of tools located in several different commands.	Standard menu command for printing File.
Infocurves	A small chart is inserted into text or embedded in a table cell and allows you to summarize the data.	Dynamic charts and chart types.	3D diagrams.
Basic tools for working with email	Conversation mode, cleaning, skip branch function and mail prompts when an employee is absent from the workplace or when sending a message to a group of users.	Not available.	Not available.
Photo editing tools	Available in the following applications: (Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010 and Microsoft Publisher 2010).		Limited functionality.
Video in Microsoft PowerPoint	Triggers and video controls.	Not available.	Not available.

see also

Product and feature changes in Office 2010

Product and feature changes in Office 2010

This section contains a list of articles that describe new, changed, and removed features for products in Microsoft Office 2010, as well as Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010. Each article also describes issues related to performing a migration for a specific product.

Article	Description
Changes in Office 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Office 2010 compared to Microsoft Office 2007.
Changes in Access 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Access 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Access 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in Excel 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Excel 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and information about how the migration performed.
Changes in InfoPath 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft InfoPath 2010 compared to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007.
Changes in OneNote 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft OneNote 2010 compared to Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in Outlook 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Outlook 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and information about how the migration has progressed.
Changes in PowerPoint 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 compared to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in Project 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Project 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Project 2007 and information about how the migration performed.
Changes in Publisher 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Publisher 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in SharePoint Designer 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 compared to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
Changes in SharePoint Workspace 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in Visio 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Visio 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and information about how to complete the migration.
Changes in Word 2010	Contains a list of changes in Microsoft Word 2010 compared to Microsoft Office Word 2007 and information about how the migration performed.

Changes in Office 2010

This article lists the changes in Microsoft Office 2010 compared to Microsoft Office 2007 and provides information about how to perform the migration.

New opportunities

Changes

What was removed

New opportunities

For information about new features in Microsoft Office 2010 that are useful to IT administrators, see What's New for IT Pros in the 2010 Microsoft Office System.

Changes

This section provides a summary of what's changed in Office 2010.

The functionality of the Insert Picture task pane and Clip Art Gallery in Office 2010 remains largely unchanged. But the user interface has been changed to make it easier to search and insert pictures from the Internet. Although the user can still download a picture and work with a locally stored collection of pictures, the need to store pictures locally is reduced. This is because Office users have become more efficient with the Internet and want to immediately capture and use images from the Internet rather than saving them for later use.

Can download pictures from website(/fwlink/?linkid=202125&clcid=0x419). The downloaded images are then available for local (offline) personal use.

Important!

The user may use the pictures for personal use in accordance with Microsoft Services Agreement (Possibly in English)(/fwlink/?linkid=204168&clcid=0x419) (Possibly in English). Also see document on Using Microsoft Copyrighted Content (Possibly in English)(/fwlink/?linkid=204172&clcid=0x419) (Possibly in English).

HTML editor

The HTML editor has been updated for use with Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft InfoPath. New features include cross-browser support, XHTML support, and a common editor.

Outdated algorithms for representing brightness and contrast

Da Vinci brightness and contrast algorithms have replaced legacy algorithms and are now accessible through the user interface and Office Manager. Legacy algorithms for representing brightness and contrast are still available for backward compatibility. This is a key architectural change.

The Office user interface and manager provide access to other photo modification algorithms in addition to the brightness and contrast algorithms. With this change, users can get better photo editing results. If the photo does not contain Office 2007 brightness or contrast changes, the visual clarity of Office 2007 brightness and contrast is preserved in Office 2010. If the photo contains Office 2007 brightness or contrast changes, Office 2010 improves the results because old effects are converted to new effects.

Language options

Language options replace language settings and help users view language packs and determine whether the required spelling and keyboard checkers are enabled. Added direct links to online locations where users can obtain additional funds. There are also new functionality such as tooltip language.

What was removed

This topic provides information about Office 2010 remote capabilities.

Insert Picture task pane and picture collection

Deprecated functionality in the Insert Picture task pane (in client applications) and the standalone Clip Art Gallery app:

 simplified drop-down menu options for the Search In command (replaced with a checkbox to include or exclude Internet content) and Media Types (photography, illustration, audio and video. Level of detail for file extensions has been removed);

 Thumbnail icons showing Internet content and pictures downloaded from the media CD have been removed.

Deprecated functionality in the Insert Picture task pane only:

Deprecated functionality for the standalone Clip Art Collection app only:

 automatic import of local content into a collection of pictures;

 linking a folder to a specific collection (for use with automatic import);

 “Search by similar style” in the local content library of user pictures;

 function of sending pictures to email recipients;

 “List” and “Details” views for pictures (only the thumbnail view is saved);

 deleting a picture from a specific collection.

Character Input Add-in: East Asian versions of Office 2010

The Character Input Special Add-in has been removed from Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft Access 2010 in East Asian versions of Office 2010.

This change applies to the language releases shown in the following table.

Language	Geographical region	Language tag (ll- cc)	Language code
Chinese (Simplified)	People's Republic of China
Chinese (traditional)

This feature has been removed because users can easily perform similar actions using a simple button option Add symbol in Group Symbol on the tab Insert or using the Input Method Editor (IME).

InterConnect

The InterConnect feature has been removed from Office 2010. It provided Japanese users with a unique electronic business card that could be secured and delivered. This capability was available as part of the Microsoft Office Ultimate Retail InterConnect SKU and the Microsoft Outlook+ Retail InterConnect SKU.

Office Startup Assistant

Disabled by default in Microsoft Office 2007, the option to create a new Office document from the menu Start, or the Office Startup Assistant (OSA) feature, has been completely removed from Microsoft Office 2010. Users can no longer manually enable this feature from the menu Start using Office 2010 Customization, or open the New Document dialog box in an Office 2010 application.

This feature has been replaced by the ability to create a new Office document for each 2010 Office application from Microsoft Office Backstage mode with the click of a button Create and subsequent creation of the document. Additionally, this enhanced functionality is compatible with the 64-bit version of Office 2010.

Office Diagnostics

Office Diagnostics, also known as Customer Watson, has been removed for all Office 2010 applications. Due to the shift in resources, the focus must be on the analytics and reporting components that have proven benefits for other workgroups. Users should now run the recovery utility from Control Panel.

Document workspaces

The following features have been removed from Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft Outlook 2010.

 Ability to create document workspaces.

 Ability to create shared attachments in Outlook.

 Ability to invoke actions for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation using the Document Management pane.

 Functionality that allows you to synchronize a local copy of a document with a copy on the server.

Users no longer have access to the following features in the section Service settings dialog box Parameter<приложение> : Create a workspace for documents, Manage document information And Document Management. The synchronization feature has been replaced by an implicit cache, allowing users to continue editing in the document workspace even when the document is offline, and automatically synchronize changes to Windows SharePoint Services the next time they come online. The implicit cache prevents the user from having difficulty selecting the desired feature.

Microsoft XML Parser 5 support

Office 2010 does not support Microsoft XML Parser 5 (MSXML5). When you boot Office 2010, existing solutions will not instantiate MSXML5 objects. Port the code to Microsoft XML Parser 6 (MSXML6) or to managed code that uses the .NET Framework.

Note.

MSXML6 does not support digital signature code. For more information about MSXML6, see the article on building MSXML applications (Possibly in English)(/fwlink/?linkid=187366&clcid=0x419) (Possibly in English).

Details about running a migration

As you plan your migration to Office 2010, review what's new, changed, and removed for Office 2010. Also see the articles: Details about running a migration The ones listed below are used Document

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Documents once created for a software product Microsoft Office, such as Word text files, Excel tables, Power Point presentations and others, slightly less popular, are perhaps the most common in the segment of business and household information exchange. And who, if not the developer of the data format, should produce the best software for viewing and editing files of this very format?

Today's article is a reflection, we will talk about which version of Microsoft Office should I download? for your own needs, with support for all modern formats and what are the ways to activate this product.

How to choose an office suite for your computer

In search of the most convenient option for using various software, ordinary users most often focus on several basic criteria, which, when grouped, can be presented in the form of a generalized list.

Software characteristics that influence consumer choice:

1. Availability of the full range of functions required by the user in the product.
2. Product price and ease of license activation.
3. Convenience and ease of use, in other words - usability.
4. Nice interface.

Choosing an office suite for your computer also follows these rules. Moreover, the issue of price, in this case, comes to the fore for many. And since the cost of products from Melkomyagki (Microsoft) cannot be called attractive for many residents of the post-Soviet countries, we have to look for alternatives in the form of free office from other developers. The project managed to gain the greatest popularity OpenOffice and its independent offshoot - LibreOffice, which, thanks to its friendly and pleasant interface, is increasingly taking leading positions in many estimates.

But what to do if the desire to use Microsoft software prevails over the prospects of worry-free work with a free product? What to do if, due to certain technical requirements, switching to alternative freeware (freely distributed) applications is simply impossible?

To answer this question, let's first compare the five latest versions of Microsoft Office.

History of Microsoft Office versions and their differences

The 2003 product can be considered legendary. This version of the Office package is often compared to the operating system Windows XP, emphasizing the longevity and prevalence of the 2003 office.

It contributed and released patch to support *.docx, *.xlsx and *.pptx formats in Microsoft Office 2003 and XP, archive Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack with which you can download from the file attached to the article: FileFormatConverters. These formats were introduced a little later, so we will talk about them below.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access didn't get many new features, but adding support for tablets and styluses was a smart move in the evolving touchscreen market. Although, of course, at that time this did not bring the greatest results, it was a smart step in strategic development.

Outlook 2003 has been thoroughly improved. Improving the spam filter, refining the search and encoding support had a beneficial effect on increasing the comfort when working with the email client.
In addition, a new program is added to the office suite - OneNote, which later becomes free and available for download from the company's official website.

Bill Gates and company are still trying to make the office interface more attractive, but the need for radical changes is increasingly felt.

Microsoft Office 2007

There were three important updates made to the 2007 package, let's highlight them:

1. It was in the release that Office 2007 was presented to everyone Ribbon interface. Microsoft was far from the first to use this method of placing functional controls, but it was here that we saw a full-fledged transition to this kind of interface with its full-scale integration. Further, the Microsoft Fluent Interface found its development in each subsequent version of the Microsoft Office suite and the Windows operating system (as a striking example - Windows Explorer, which was already discussed in the article Opening Windows 10 File Explorer on the This PC tab).
2. Continuing the struggle for spheres of influence, Microsoft is introducing a series of formats for storing electronic documents - Office Open XML. The extensions of the new data types are *.docx, *.xlsx And *.pptx. Responding to criticism from experts about the lack of compatibility of new formats for old applications, the IT giant releases a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack patch that adds OOXML support to software products from earlier years, the link to which we provided above.
3. And finally, after leaving Microsoft Office 2007 SP2(second service pack) Melkomyagkih now has built-in support for the format OpenDocument, that is, files with extensions *.odt(text documents), *.ods(tables), *.odp(presentations), *.odg(graphic documents) and their derivatives. This means that now Microsoft Office users can work with files created in OpenOffice, LibreOffice and other alternative products without prior conversion.

The company begins intensive work on the user interface of its software.
New trends in IT fashion force designers and programmers to spend more and more effort on giving the appearance of applications a modern style.

In addition to design improvements, an important update was a new feature that allows the program to gain remote access to materials and organize simultaneous editing of documents by several authors through an online service Office Web Apps. This step was made, first of all, to retain the market of corporate clients, which is smoothly flowing into the hands of free software developers.

Also in the 2010 office, some new features of the Excel component were announced: Slicer and more interesting InfoCurves, which allow you to add miniature graphs directly inside table cells.

Work continues on the application interface, the appearance of the program is drawn in accordance with the general Microsoft policy reflected in the interface Metro UI Windows 8 and Windows 10 systems.

Close integration with the OneDrive cloud storage service has been implemented (we have already touched on the concept of cloud storage in the post Increasing space in Yandex Disk cloud storage +32 GB), previously called SkyDrive, where all documents created in the application are saved, and the program for messaging and calling via the Internet - Skype, full rights to which Microsoft acquired on May 10, 2011 for $8.5 billion. These functions, it must be said, were not received great popularity among users, but contributed to the continued interweaving of the company’s products with each other.

Among the more obvious advantages of the new version of the package, we can note the appearance in the 2013 office of the ability to view and edit (!) files PDF, as well as some improvements to Word and Excel applications. For example, the function of placing online videos on a sheet has been added, and on the Design tab in Word it has become possible to set styles for the entire document at once.

But let’s highlight the following two points as serious disadvantages:

1. Lack of support for Microsoft Office 2013 by the Windows XP operating system. This seriously undermined the product's appeal to a large number of users.
2. Inability in Outlook 2013 to download only email headers without their full contents via IMAP. Particularly strange is the complete downloading of messages from the Spam tab, as well as the automatic downloading of attachments (files from a letter) of all incoming messages.

The main changes to the product in 2015 from the company of the same name affected the design of the interface and continued integration with the Internet services OneDrive and Skype.

Minor improvements and improvements have been made to the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications.

And, although Microsoft did not hesitate to say that " office 2016 was written almost from scratch", I don’t want to call Microsoft Office 2016 a new version of the product after getting to know it closely. It’s more likely improved office '13.

Methods for activating Microsoft Office

Needless to say, after choosing the appropriate version of Office and installing it, the most reliable way to activate it is to purchase a license key. However, two unpleasant surprises await us here:

1. Often, the version of a product we are interested in is simply impossible to purchase due to its withdrawal from sale by the developer.
2. Software prices, by the standards of some countries, are greatly inflated, if we take into account the average salary in the country.

In this regard, many PC users resort to using unlicensed copies of software.

Below we will briefly review the main ways to activate the Microsoft Office package:

Activation exploits

Let's start, of course, with using exploits.

Exploit- this is a piece of code or a separate program that uses a vulnerability in an application to carry out actions unauthorized by the developer, for example, obtaining privileged rights, activating a product, disrupting the functioning of the attacked object

One of the most popular exploits for the Microsoft office suite is changing the library MSO.dll located in the directory

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10\

The essence of the method is to change the file with a hex editor in the line

8B 81 78 01 00 00 C3

Here you need to replace the value 78 to the value 84 to make it work

8B 81 84 01 00 00 C3

This method has two main disadvantages.

• Firstly, if you download a ready-made file to replace it, there is a chance that you may run into a malicious file, simply a virus.
• Secondly, the use of exploits quite often leads to unexpected errors and limitations in the operation of the software, for example, after editing a file MSO.dll, it is quite possible that it will no longer be possible to install updates on the office suite.
• Thirdly, the vulnerability of the MSO library has been fixed in new versions of Office and it will not be possible to activate the program using this method.

Reusable activation keys

Everything is much simpler here: we go to a search engine or directly to a site where keys are distributed, copy the key from the browser page and paste it into the Office activation field.
Then everything depends on the type of product and the state of the serial number we found, if the key is suitable for online activation, just click the Next button and use the activated product (this, of course, does not mean that the copy has become licensed, it is still considered pirated). If the key has exhausted attempts online activation, then we can try activation by phone.

If a product is provided for offline registration without undergoing activation on Microsoft servers, then the key can be entered even without an Internet connection.

The main disadvantages of this method include the fact that you can find working key It can often be very difficult, and besides, if the key is suddenly blocked even after successful activation, you may well be left with a non-working program that will need to be activated again, this also happens.

KMS server for activation

Activation of Microsoft products (and not only) using kms servers is becoming increasingly popular.

KMS (Key Management Service)- a key management service that allows the licensee (the owner of the purchased license) to activate and control the software on working machines on the network without connecting to the servers of the licensor (license sellers)

In most cases, for private use, the kms server is installed locally on the user’s computer, and all that is required to activate is to press a couple of buttons in the program window.

The method is quite reliable, but it is not without its drawbacks.

• First, KMS activation is required repeat at regular intervals. It is also possible to add a kms server to Windows startup using one of the methods described in the article Autoload. Adding applications to Windows startup, but there is no 100% guarantee that activation will be successful in the background.
• Secondly, the success of the activation process via kms may depend on various factors: the presence Administrator rights the user account, the presence on the computer of the libraries necessary for the activator to work, the availability of network ports through which the server operates, and so on.

Microsoft Office 2007 Blue Edition and Pink Edition

Based on the above, I would like to have an ideal product with the following characteristics:

In search of such a program, many of us come across distributions with the name, or Microsoft Office 2007 Pink Edition.

According to those who upload similar software to the network, this version of Office has all the capabilities of Office 2007, is not burdened with additions from OneDrive and Skype, and, at the same time, does not require hacking.
Simply, again, if you trust what they write on the Internet, the mythical Microsoft Office 2007 Blue Edition- this is a special version of the office suite, intended for corporate clients, which does not require entering a key, activation or other actions to remove restrictions on the functionality of the application.

For greater persuasiveness, information is provided that the product Blue Edition not sold in retail chains. At the same time, the program works quite quickly, and its installation is possible on all modern versions of the OS from the software giant Microsoft: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.

In fact, there are no primary sources confirming the existence of corporate editions that do not require activation. There are no facts or evidence of the release of such distributions from any major company in the world. So where did the disk images with such software come from?

In his article Office Customization Tool (or the myth of Blue Edition) username Krokoz described in sufficient detail how to create such assemblies of the Microsoft Office program using the Office Customization Tool.

So, Blue Edition is the regular one assembly with a built-in key (activator) and settings hidden from the user to initialize a silent installation.

In this article, we looked at the main changes and differences between versions of the Microsoft Office office suite and touched upon methods for activating the program. And the main choice: what to use and what to pay for or not to pay money - each of us makes independently.
After all, what difference does it make who released the program if it completely satisfies our needs?

Over the past couple of years, the largest software developers have somehow been more involved in optimizing existing products rather than developing something fundamentally new. This is a common occurrence, since this is the most “fundamentally new” thing, as a rule, always in need of fine-tuning.

Let's give some illustrative examples. Mac OS X 10.6 was released by Apple under the auspices of increasing stability and reliability, and at the same time a total transition to 64-bit computing (which, in general, earlier Mac OS X was capable of). And before that, Mac OS X 10.5 was introduced, which contained several hundred innovations. Adobe Photoshop CS5 added several new features, but at the same time, Adobe was polishing the 64-bit version of the program (Premier Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 were generally released only in 64-bit version), improved support for acceleration via a video card, and also improved work with 3D. This was all first introduced in CS4, but has been polished up in CS5. In our review of Windows 7, we wrote that this OS represents Windows Vista as it should be.

It remains to take a closer look directly at the hero of this material - the Microsoft Office suite of applications.

Remember Office 2007? More precisely, how did it appear, and many people’s eyes popped out of their heads because of the new ribbon (Ribbon in the original Microsoft name) interface? Half-joking stories even began to appear on the Internet about how Office 2007 acted as an “instrument of torture” - after it, any secretary perceived the “unusual” OpenOffice as manna from heaven. How much noise was there around the new OpenXML format?

Microsoft released not only a fundamentally new Windows, but also a fundamentally new Office. After this, a modified and debugged Windows 7 was presented, and now we are dealing with a polished “office” - Office 2010. Of course, the ribbon interface was not made anywhere. But in three years, everyone has already gotten used to it - that's one thing, and the software giant's programmers have allowed it to be configured much more flexibly - that's two things. But we’ll talk about this later, but for now let’s figure out which versions of MS Office 2010 are available on the market.

Versions

Microsoft loves to skip version numbers and cause confusion on this issue. So, after Word 3.0, Word 6.0 was immediately released, Windows 7 is based on the 6.1 kernel, and Office 13 never existed, although Office 2010 is still known as Office 14. Microsoft simply missed the number 13, while Office 2007 was the “twelfth”. This omission is explained by a banal fear of the number 13 - the largest software company in the world turned out to be superstitious.

In total, we counted seven delivery options for Microsoft Office 2010: Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional, Professional Academic, Professional Plus. They differ from each other in the programs included in the kit.

The simplest option is Starter. It is not officially available for retail sale, and will only be installed on computers (laptops) by OEM manufacturers. At the same time, it does not provide any trial period for 30 days, however, the two programs included in the kit (Word and Excel) are very limited in their functionality (for example, you cannot flexibly customize the ribbon interface, SmartArt effects are not supported, there is no formula editor Microsoft Equation, no review mode, etc.), and they will display ads in the lower right corner. In general, Office 2010 Starter is designed to completely replace Microsoft Works, the development of which has already been discontinued.

In other versions, such “special features” are not provided. Home and Student, in addition to Word and Excel, also contains PowerPoint and OneNote. Home and Business adds Outlook to this list. Standard has one more program - Publisher. Professional and Professional Academic, in addition to the six applications listed, come with Access 2010. Professional Academic is a special option for educational institutions; it will also not be available for retail sale.

Well, that leaves the most “professional” office - Professional Plus. It contains all the Professional programs, plus Communicator, InfoPath, and SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Groove). All three of these programs are focused on collaborative work with documents and will be useful primarily in enterprises.

As for the cost, it varies from 2500 to 3000 rubles for Office 2010 Home and Student and up to 15 thousand rubles for Professional Plus. All applications from the Microsoft Office suite can also be purchased separately. It should be added that Microsoft Visio and Project are sold separately.

It remains only to mention the 64-bit version of Office 2010. Microsoft presented this version of its package for the first time. At the same time, the company strongly recommends using 32-bit applications. Why then were 64-bit versions released? For testing. This is something like the first steps in this direction. We are not promised unstable operation, but some functions will be available only in the 32-bit version. In addition, not all external plugins are able to work with 64-bit programs. The advantage of higher-bit options is the ability to address more than 2 GB of RAM by each application. The only people who will really benefit from this are Excel and Access users, where really bulky files can be opened. There is nothing written anywhere about using 64-bit processor registers to speed up calculations. Apparently this optimization is to be expected in future versions of Office.

Despite Microsoft's policy to reduce the popularity of Windows XP, Office 2010 can still run on it. True, only in the 32-bit version and with Service Pack 3 installed. 64-bit Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP were left behind, but Windows Server 2003 R2 was not. However, there are very few people working in these operating systems. Windows Vista (with Service Pack 1 or 2 installed), Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 (R2) are also supported.

What's new

Now let's move on directly to the innovations in Office 2010. We will look at those that are most noticeable in all applications, and also briefly go through some of the changes in the most popular programs.

Microsoft Office Backstage

Perhaps the most noticeable innovation is the Microsoft Office Backstage menu. Remember how every Office 2007 program that had a ribbon interface had that big round button with the Microsoft Office logo in the top left corner? Clicking on it showed a menu with some operations, as well as a list of recently opened files. Now this button has been replaced with... no, not a button, but rather a tab called "File". It is made as if part of the ribbon toolbar, but at the same time it is separated from it by a different color.

It is not surprising that this “File” tab was separated from the rest - it does not open a new panel, but completely covers the entire window. What appears on the screen is called Office Backstage. Here you can actually perform various operations with files, and the list of them is much wider than that that was available in the “classic” “File” menu of Office 2003 and earlier programs.

The Backstage menu is divided into three columns. The left column displays available operations and menu sections, the central column displays possible options for the selected item on the left, and the right column is usually used for preview.

Microsoft Office 2007 is available in nine basic editions. Below are the main characteristics and distinctive features for each version of Office 2007.

Licensing

Version	Licensing	A comment
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007	Retail, Limited Student Edition
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007	Enterprise license
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007	Enterprise license	Depending on Volume Licensing program
Microsoft Office Professional 2007	Retail	One main device and one additional portable device
	OEM	Only one device
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007	Retail	One main device and one additional portable device
	OEM	Only one device
	Enterprise license	Depending on Volume Licensing program
Microsoft Office Standard 2007	Retail	One main device and one additional portable device
	Enterprise license	Depending on Volume Licensing program
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007	Retail	Three devices in one house. For non-commercial purposes only.
	OEM	Only one device. For non-commercial purposes only.
Microsoft Office Basic 2007	OEM only	One device

Components

Microsoft Office 2007 components depending on version.

Component	Basic	Home and Student	Standard	Small Business	Professional	Ultimate	Professional Plus	Enterprise
Office Word 2007	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Office Excel 2007	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Office PowerPoint 2007	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Office Outlook 2007	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	+
Business Contact Manager	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+
Office Publisher 2007	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	+
Office Access 2007	-	-	-	-	+	+	+	+
Office InfoPath 2007	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+
Office Groove 2007	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+
Office OneNote 2007	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	+
Office Communicator 2007	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	+
Integrated Enterprise Content Management	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+
Integrated Electronic Forms	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+
Advanced Information Rights Management and Policy Capabilities	-	-	-	-	-	+	+	+
Office Customization Tool (OCT)	-	-	+	+	-	-	+	+

Additional components

Additional software packages became part of the Microsoft Office 2007 software, which, however, were not included in the official versions of Microsoft Office 2007:

• Microsoft Office Project
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
• Microsoft Office Visio

Managing policies and data access rights

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007		Office Corporate 2007
Create IRM-protected documents and email messages. Grant access and editing permissions and apply policy templates to protected content. 1	-	+	+
Read and use IRM-protected documents and email messages if you have the appropriate permissions. 1	+	+	+
Apply policy rules to email messages before they are sent. 1	-	+	+
Read policy rules associated with received email messages.	+	+	+

1 Requires Windows Rights Management Services for Windows Server 2003.

Integrated Content Management

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Professional Plus 2007	Office Corporate 2007
Run document review workflows and perform workflow tasks in Microsoft Office programs.	-	+	+
Run document review workflows and run workflow tasks in the browser.	+	+	+
Publish presentations and individual Office PowerPoint 2007 slides to a PowerPoint slide library for later use.	-	+	+
Browse slide libraries from Office PowerPoint 2007, create new presentations from individual slides, and receive updates when slides change on the server.	+	+	+
Publish spreadsheets to Report Center. Set options and view permissions for spreadsheets and specific cells published in Report Center.	-	+	+
View and use spreadsheets published in Report Center using a browser.	+	+	+
Create printable labels and barcodes based on metadata, insert barcodes into Microsoft Office documents.	-	+	+
Read, print and update existing labels and barcodes in Microsoft Office documents.	+	+	+

Expanded support for custom email forms

Features and Benefits	Office Standard 2007	Office Professional Plus 2007	Office Corporate 2007
Fill out, collect, and organize Office InfoPath email forms in Office Outlook 2007. 2	-	+	+
Server-embedded, fully customizable InfoPath forms in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007. 2	-	+	+
Fill out forms in programmable task areas. 2	-	+	+
Populate custom fields and execute custom business logic in Document Information Panel forms. 2	-	+	+

2 To implement these features, you must install Office InfoPath 2007 on the client computer. Office InfoPath 2007 is included in Office Professional Plus 2007 and Office Enterprise 2007. Organizations using other application suites can purchase and install Office InfoPath 2007 separately.