New Hotmail, Microsoft Office 2010 available now
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted June 16th 2010 1:24PM
posted June 16th 2010 1:24PM
Just a quick note for those of you who have yet to adopt Open Office (or have yet to give up on being productive altogether). Microsoft Office 2010 is available right now for Windows 7 / Vista / XP users. Right this instant. As you read this. It has entered "the realm of the real," as it were. Depending on your needs and your budget, you can pick up one of various flavors: Home and Student (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for $150), Office Home and Business (all of the above, plus Outlook for $280), or Office Professional (adds Access and Publisher for a cool $500). If that weren't enough for you, it also looks like Hotmail (remember that?) got some massive improvements with Office Web App integration, new attachment limits up to 10 GB using SkyDrive, and more. What are you waiting for? Check out the source links to get started.
"Just a quick note for those of you who have yet to adopt Open Office"
Wow, I guess I'm really behind the times....
I guess we all are :\
I guess we all are :\
@Alex
You're not. MS Office is one product which handedly beats open source alternatives. Try writing powerful Excel macros in Open Office
@Alex
Yea, same here. I'm still using Office on all my machines including my Mac Pro. Although they seriously need to drop the price. Home and student is $150? Not saying I *did* but if I *did* want this, i'm sure it's all over the Torrent sites......just sayin
@VSpike915
Not really overpriced... $150 gets you licensed for 3 computers. That is only $50/pc. I used to work at a retail store and there were constantly promotions going on. You could usually get Office Home and Student for around $100-$120, which is only $33-$40/pc.
@VSpike915
I agree. The lowest version should be around $50 - $70.
All,
Just to clarify, this was sarcasm.
Thanks,
Alex
@joe23521
Just got an email from my university, they're selling Professional for $90, but I've had for about a month now from MSDNA.
MS education discounts are by far the best.
@Alex
You're not. Open Office sucks. I wonder if Hotmail's Web Office is better than Google Docs, which also sucks.
@Pseudo Idol
I agree with this reasoning completely. But IMO, you should buy the software with one key then be able to buy extra's if you needed. Because most non "geeks" only have one computer if you think about it
@Pseudo Idol
Not only that, most universities/college give you office for about $70 for the professional. I got my 2007 for about $50.
@schismal
It's more full-featured, but a bit heavier. It actually preserves formatting. Still not a replacement for proper office (which is I'm guessing is what Microsoft was going for). You can try it at office.live.com.
@MrDiSante
When I was in college, a couple years ago, MS products were $5/license: OS, office, whatever...I miss those days.
@daaper
Those days are still here for some. My university gives a free download of Office Enterprise to all students.
@VSpike915
With the introduction of Office 2010 they also introduced a new way to purchase, a key card. Single license install of Home and Student is $99. The only downside is that the license is not transferable to a new computer. So if you go out and buy a new computer today, and it is your only computer, you can get the key card .
@Alex Wow....Apple adds a compas to a phone and engadget goes nuts. M$ revamps their mail client and adds online office apps that are much better than google docs, and engadget just mentions it. I remember a time where reporting was objective.
@Matt314 well those times are gone, i haven't seen even a report of a groundbreaking technology like natal in news channels but they all cover every shit of apple,i think we call it mindwashing
@brookey86
Try writing powerful Open Office macros in Excel.
How come they don't give an upgrade option like with their OSes? If you're buying professional at retail, it's even more expensive than the OS.
Open Office? Nah, it doesn't do it for me (and most judging by the responses).
Therefore, Office. Been using the Beta for months - awesome. Here I come student discount!
@Alex
I think we've all tried OpenOffice already. When it hit 2.0... Then 3.0... I still chose paying 400 bucks on a new netbook than be forced to live with OpenOffice.
Those of you who didn't try OpenOffice, don't bother.
@Matt314 You know Engadget covers consumer tech and not software right? You're at the wrong blog if you want 10 pieces on MS Office 2010.
And I say this as an Apple hater.
stop whining.
Isn't this pretty major news? Its the most powerful and widely used productivity suite available today, and yet Engadget just seems so "meh" about it. LOL!
I suppose it is time for me to upgrade. I'm still running Office 2003.
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget
They have with all previous versions of Office, and I expect they will with 2010 very soon.
@Hussain Rahim If you had properly read my comment you might have realized that I did not mention Office 2010 a single time. And that proves my point. The article briefly mentions Office web apps, and simply has "New hotmail" in the title. The changes made to the new hotmail puts M$'s online services above Google's. There are amazing features that deserve a proper article. Software is reported on Engadget just look at the iTunes 9.2 post! Its a stpuid and minor upgrade that Engadget reported only because its from apple.
And for your information, I beleive in buying the best, which is why i will never buy a mac, which is why i used gmail until now, and which is why i owned an iPhone. Brand loyalty is just idiotic.
@VSpike915
I paid $499, full retail, for Office X. Quit yer whining and pony up.
i was trying to think of something slick and sly to say about this one but.......i got nothing..
Oh my!
Hot dang, the educational version reads as $79.99 on Microsoft's student site! =D
@SpongeFreak52
Got my copy for $15 through Microsoft's Expert Zone!
@SpongeFreak52
Mine's $0.00 through TBP.
@R2 D2 Well played.
@SpongeFreak52
Umad that I can get Office Enterprise for $10 and soon to be full Office 2010 for $10 through my university?
@R2 D2
Arrrrrrr
@R2 D2
You'res is $2000000 once the cops come and get you, you thief!
JK
@R2 D2 You think its great now but wait until C-3PO finds out you pirated...!
@R2 D2 how did you get the free bandwidth? did you camp at the library? ;-)
Hoemail. :'(
@DefPoet. You mean the old email I use for sites I expect to spam me? Oh, yeah. What year is it?, I should probably check the inbox, lol.
I tried to go with Open Office, it doesn't always work when you deal with people using Office 2003/2007
Thunderbird (with Lightning) works much better than Outlook so I am happy with that free Microsoft replacement
@croooow The issue I have with OpenOffice is that it tries to *be* Microsoft Office, so it'll always be *behind*.
Personally, I'd prefer KOffice to become more popular, and with Nokia having worked on Office import filters, it actually reads my rather complex college documents really well.
Ribbon supremacy.
Why the sly remark on Hotmail? You do know its one of the most used email services right, and Live Hotmail is really innovating in this space.
@timotim
Agreed, I've been using Hotmail since '99 as my primary account. They're constantly improving it and I've been really happy...so why change?
@daaper Actually hotmail is *the* most used email client. I've been using gmail for the last 7 years but i'm seriously considering switching to live with SkyDrive, office apps, and now a mail client that surpasses gmail in many areas. Its the loss of all my archived emails that sucks though ...:(
@Matt314 well i changed my ip in for a couple of times and when google disabled my entire account i was wishing that i've done that switch sooner,and know this: their customer support is absolute shit
@timotim Most used? Yes (but only because it's the standard when you create a live id), but does that automatically mean that it's the best? Not really. Best known is better.
What you call 'innovating' is what I call 'catching up to others'.
@Matt314 The only things where live hotmail surpasses gmail are pretty useless: 10GB attachments? Cool, but who's going to do that? And if it's trough skydrive... then it's just a lock in in MS-services. Don't think you will be able to switch to another mail service and take all things with you that easily.
And if only live hotmail supported IMAP like gmail does for years. Then you would be able to transfer all your archived mails from gmail to hotmail.
@Matt314 Gmail came out in 2004 ;-)
@MaTdg
Most people don't know this but MS announced that they were developing an online version of office several months before google bought "Docs" and made them available online for free. It was M$'s innovation not google's, they just beat them to it.
As for features i find attractive in live, the livesync that is due in a few months sounds very cool, the mail client has actually all the same features as gmail but they are much easier to setup and use (filtering and all that stuff) - according to reviews i've read that is -, the calendar is much nicer imo, the office web apps are infinitely better than google docs (which i was never able to get use to) and a 25GB online storage seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.
I don;t know much about email protocols, but i'll look into transferring my stuff over if its possible....