I am live blogging Microsoft’s Worldwide Partners Conference 2009 with bloggers from www.geeksmack.net. We’ve already had Office 2010 and Office Web Application announcements today. You can keep up with all that and more below! Live!
Office Web Applications
Office 2010 Beta 1 leaked and available for download
While you’re downloading Windows 7 RTM build 7600, you might as well put Office 2010 Beta in the queue as well because it has been leaked too. Microsoft really needs a plumber to fix these leaks don’t they?
Office 2010 will also use JumpLists in Windows 7
Long Zheng posted a few blurry screenshots of Office 2010 a couple of days ago from a TechEd 2009 keynote. Here’s another one from Techradar who have posted a first look at Office 2010, covering the many upcoming changes in Outlook. This screenshot shows Outlook making use of Windows 7’s Jumplists which shortcuts to create a new email message, appointment, contact or a task. The taskbar button also shows when new mail is available just like Windows Live Mail does now.
Office 2010 to be rolled out to thousands of testers in July. Sign up now!
A new blog has popped up on Office 2010, called the Microsoft Office 2010 IT Blog. It has given out information on the roll out of Office 2010 CTP to testers in July this year. Mary Jo Foley writes that Microsoft plans to roll out the CTP to thousands of invited testers in waves. The CTP will include Office 2010 Client, SharePoint Server 2010 and Office Web Applications, the online version of Office.
Office 2010 officially announced. Exchange 2010 Public Beta unveiled
Microsoft has officially announced Office 2010 along with the release of the Public Beta of Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 (final version) will become available in the second half of 2009, where as Office 2010, Office Web Applications, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 will enter a technical preview in the third quarter of this year and will be released to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.