Office 2010 logoToday Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are available for businesses. In other words, it's RTBU day at Office.

Yes, we love acronyms around here and this one is: Release to Business Users. What does that mean to you? Well, if you run a big company, we want you to stop reading this and buy Office 2010 now. Thanks.

Well, what else am I supposed to say? I work here.

For smaller businesses and home consumers, you have to wait a bit longer. We're getting Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 out to big business a bit sooner since they have to deploy over lots of computers, versus just one or a few. But as you're waiting, know this: The free Office Web Apps will be coming to you this year, along with some excellent new features (see a video on the new Office 2010 photo tools done by, eh, yours truly).

Office 2010 is not just another onslaught of nifty features. ZDNet's Ed Bott gives us the long view in his blog post, Office 2010: a deeper dive.

Office 2010 is a surprisingly deep, thoughtfully designed, well-engineered collection of software programs. The more I dig, the more I like the small but useful touches that the Office design team has wrought. That's not just my opinion, either. I've heard variations on that sentiment from dozens of correspondents, including a few who are Office skeptics.

So, if you are in big business, harangue your boss, the person in IT who spends the money, the admin, and the person in the next cubicle and tell them you want your MTV, er, Office 2010.

On second thought, never harass your administrative assistant. They have powers and features that software can only dream about.


--Doug Thomas

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