Office 2010 Beta
I just finished installing the Office 2010 beta, and it’s looking like they’ve made a ton of changes since the technical preview.
I’ve not had a chance to do too much with it yet, but here’s what I’ve noticed changes with so far.
First and foremost, most of the interfaces have been cleaned up a lot. Everything is much cleaner and smoother looking. Most if not all of the placeholder icons are gone, and replaced with actual icons.
Speed has been greatly improved. Outlook 2010 seems to be much snappier, especially on IMAP.
Outlook 2010 also has added a social connector bar at the bottom of your emails. To be honest, it looks very similar to Xobni, and is quite impressive. It has an option for other social networking plugins, so it’ll be interesting to see what kind of plugins are released.
Only real annoyance is that it doesn’t support upgrading from the technical preview, so you’ll have to uninstall that first. But, it’s not that big of a deal.
I’ll have further updates as I use the program more.