New MS Office
Monday, June 7, 2010 at 8:08AM 
Another new version of Microsoft Office is coming out on June 15. While I don't think they could have really improved the art of typing a letter beyond version Office XP (or even Corel WordPerfect 5.2), at this point, it's just fine-tuning the user interface and tools. And perhaps undoing mistakes from previous versions.
One happy addition I wanted to mention has to do with PowerPoint -- the plastic spork in the utensil drawer of presentation software. Microsoft has finally decided to allow actual embedding of video files into a presentation. No more links to video files that get broken once you move the file or try to e-mail it to someone else. Apple's presentation software, Keynote, has done that since version 1. Apple knew then that people don't care that presentations are larger than 100 MB anymore. People have USB nail clippers that hold more than that.
Another welcome -- and inevitable -- feature is their offering of a free, lesser-featured, online version of Office. This is a direct answer to upstarts like Google Docs and Adobe Buzzword. Looking 10 years into the future, I think it's a near certainty that document management will be done via cloud computing of some sort.
The other late-to-the-table addition to the application line is the ability to create PDF files of your documents. As the New York Times's David Pogue put it, "Welcome to 2005 Microsoft!"
The struggle over the past 10 years for Microsoft has been the adoption rates of their new versions. More than 50% of Microsoft Office customers today are using a version that's at least 7 years old. People just seem to be happy with what works and aren't willing to shell out another $120 for a few new buttons. However, Microsoft predicts high adoption rates with Office 2010.
mattsnod, microsoft, office, powerpoint in Technology 
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