Connections with other social networks are planned. For example, at PDC09, Microsoft showed how its new Outlook Social Connector could connect with Linked In - a site for business users - and synchronise contact data. Microsoft is also working on Silverlight 4 and Internet Explorer 9.Īlthough there are not many eye-catching new features in Office 2010, Microsoft is making its email and personal organiser program, Outlook, work with social networking sites. The beta release includes 2010 versions of the Exchange email server, the hosted SharePoint collaboration platform, Visio, and Microsoft Project. In particular, it extends the new ribbon-style interface to all the applications, making them significantly easier for beginners to use. Office 2010 does not represent a dramatic break with the past, like Office System 2007, but builds on it. Get the Office 2010 beta " and "Nobody does it beta". On Twitter, the official account announced it somewhat humorously - for a division making roughly $1bn per month - with tweets such as Beta watch out, beta not cry, beta is coming to town. In the last financial year, the Business Division made operating profits of $12.1bn on revenues of $18.9bn, with both being larger than those for the Windows Client software division.
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Microsoft Office is the major revenue generator for Microsoft's Business Division, which had revenues of $4.4bn and profits of $2.8bn in the company's latest quarterly results, declared on 23 October.
This will enable programmers to develop add-ons for the new version, and for companies and interested parties to test it, before it goes on sale some time next year.
During this week's Professional Developers Conference PDC09 in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Microsoft released a free public beta of the next version of its popular Office suite, Office 2010.