Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 is out! Too bad i'm using a mac and I'm unable to try it out. But reading the reviews, it seem to have quite some major changes as compared to its predecessors. This is what PCWorld had to say:

Microsoft has also tweaked the overall Office Ribbon experience, bringing its layout and structure in line with the newly standardized Ribbon objects from the Windows 7 SDK. By far the biggest change is the removal of the funky round Office "orb" buttons. They've been replaced by the more staid-looking Application button first introduced with the "Ribbonized" Paint and WordPad applications from the Windows 7 betas.

The layout of the underlying button menu has also changed. Each Office application now sports a customized, window-spanning alternative view that combines information about the currently selected object (document, spreadsheet, e-mail message) with various actions and application-level configuration options. It's a clever way to eliminate one of the few remaining vestiges of Office's nested menu-driven past while serving to focus the user on the available actions or options. And since the view is context sensitive, it can adapt itself to match your current work status -- for example, switching its default display from a "recently opened files" view when working with a new and unsaved project to a comprehensive file info "dossier" view once you've saved the data to disk.

I currently have the full version for Office 2010. I'm wondering if I should make it available for download. Why don't you all comment and let me know if I should or not and why should I. Maybe that will determine if I put it up for download or not. It is about 650mb.

As for me, I patiently await the arrival of the Mac Office 2011, set to be released end of the year. (I'm happy with the Beta version. Can't wait to get the full one!)