Office Web Apps are a brand new addition to Office 2010 that will make it even easier to work with your Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. Office Web Apps give you a quick way to access these files and continue to work with them. They also give you the freedom to move around even without your laptop because as long as you have access to a PC or Mac with Internet access and a browser or even a mobile device and a micro browser, Office Web Apps provide browser-based viewing and lightweight editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote documents without requiring any additional software to be installed. You get high-fidelity viewing, great compatibility with your existing files and the familiar Office interface that supports the key authoring functionality in the browser on your PC and Mac. Leave your computer behind knowing that you'll still have access to your work, and all the Microsoft® Office Web Apps must be installed on a server running Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Information: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

Microsoft intends to release Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview to invited guests who register to sign up for Office 2010 CTP Program only by July 2009. Office 2010 was previously known by codename Office 14 (taken cue from its version), and wrongly assume to be Office 2009. The setup installer of both 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) Office 2010 Technical Preview 1 (TP 1) has been leaked to BT network. The leaked Office 2010 Technical Preview 1 has the version of 14.0.4006.1010, a pre-trial version provided to premium Microsoft partners.

The latest Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4417.1000 which was leaked about a week ago features refreshed icons for all Office applications.And like any previous version of Office, all the icons from this latest leaked build have Office 2010 been extracted and are available for download at deviantART. The Office 2010 Applications Icon Pack includes 60 high-resolution icons for:

* Access 2010
* Excel 2010
* InfoPath 2010
* Office 2010 Upload Center
* SharePoint Designer 2010
* OneNote 2010
* Outlook 2010
* PowerPoint 2010
* Project 2010
* Publisher 2010
* SharePoint Workspace 2010
* Visio 2010
* Word 2010

The Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1, invitation only program which will provide you with the opportunity to experience early, pre-release versions of Office 2010 which will include the following applications: Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010, Communicator 2010, Access 2010, InfoPath 2010 and Publisher 2010. Microsoft Office 2010 provides people at home or work with a comprehensive set of tools that helps them gather and consolidate virtually any type of information, find what they are looking for quickly, and easily share information with others across geographical or organizational boundaries, so they can deliver better results faster.

1. Office 2010 will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
2. Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
3. You don't need to replace hardware that is capable of running 2007, it will support Office 2010. Like Windows 7 has demonstrated, we realize that taking advantage of the hardware you already own is just as important as supporting all the new technology coming out.

Microsoft Office 2010 is the next version (as of April 2009) of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It entered development during 2006 while Microsoft was finishing work on Microsoft Office 12, which was released as the 2007 Microsoft Office System.Office 2010 will be more "role-based" than previous versions.

Office 2010 will implement the ISO compliant version of Office Open XML which was standardized as ISO 29500 in March 2008. Microsoft plans to offer a Web-based version of its Office productivity suite, known as Office Web, that will debut with the release of Office 2010 Office Web will include online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.