Here’s a few videos on Office 2010 covering the following:

• Word 2010
• Excel® 2010
• PowerPoint® 2010
• Outlook® 2010
• OneNote® 2010
• Publisher 2010
• Access® 2010
• InfoPath® 2010
• Office Communicator 2007 R2
• SharePoint Workspace 2010
• Visio® 2010
• Office Web Apps
• Office Mobile

I’m particularly interested in the Office Web Apps as these seem to be a competitor to Google Docs and I’m keen to see how these fit in with SharePoint 2010. I love the video of this series – Monica Mendoza has been gallivanting around the globe using Office Web Apps to best effect, but she cleverly tells us ‘I wouldn’t give up the full capabilities of my Office Applications on my PC, but isn’t it great to know you can access your office files from anywhere?’.

Well I’m not sure where they see Office Web Apps being used, but I do think a lot of organisations would be more than happy with having thin client Office installed. I wonder if this is only available with a  purchased office install, or whether they intend to place it on the cloud?

As for the others, SharePoint Workspace 2010 is basically Groove repackaged. Outlook 2010 has a handy conversations feature whereby related conversations are grouped together. You can select a conversation and opt out of future responses and Outlook will automatically file them in the recycle bin. Could be useful in escaping the dreaded ‘added to the cc list by accident’ but also could be the cause of some problems when you make a mistake and bin a conversation that turns out to be relevant.

Word has fancy 3d text effects now, as well as the ability to collaborate on a document in real-time with others. I’m looking forward to seeing that in action.

All apps (I think) have what’s called ‘backstage’. Backstage is basically where you do all the mundane document tasks, like print, send as email and set permissions. I like the ‘stage’ analogy as it separates the tasks well and gives emphasis to the fact that your document is ‘out there, being viewed by others’.