Office 2010 coming your Way

Office 2010 would the next version of Microsoft’s office suit and would be available in first half of 2010 according to Microsoft. Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year. According to Microsoft it is designed to deliver a unified experience across the PC, phone and browser.

Features

It is said that the new features would include updated menu system, built-in screen capture tool, enhanced multimedia editing, background removal tool, stronger security features like protected document mode and author permissions.

Web Version

Microsoft has also gone to war with Google by announcing a free web-based version of its Office software which would be competing in the cloud with Google's free online Docs suite which was launched three years ago. It seems that Microsoft has realized the true power of internet at last and so it is has now decided to compete Google in web arena.

Microsoft: Fighting on many fronts

Microsoft has been facing challenges from many of its competetors including Adobe and Google. Just few months ago Adobe released a Flash-based Media Player called Adobe Media Player, which is an online and offline player that is capable of tagging, rating, and sharing videos. Google also tried to challenge the monoply of Microsoft's Internet Explorer by launching Chrome, though it failed to cause any serious damage to Internet Explorer's Market share. Google has also ventured into Operating system domain in which Microsoft rules. By announcing to launch Chrome OS they became the competetors of Microsoft in internet OS market. Microsft had announced earlier this year that they have the plans to introduce internet OS, which they have named Gezelle.

But Microsft is not sitting quitely and it bit back by releasing a Flash competitor called Silverlight. It also tried to improve its share in search engine market but their rebranding attempts have failed to increase Microsoft search engine market share. As only msn users and live user switched to Bing.