Office App Store due for Office 15
“App Stores seem to be all the rage at the minute and it looks like Microsoft plans to bring a store to its next version of Office. Windows 8 Beta has discovered that on the Microsoft careers site there is a position open for a marketing job with the Office 15 team which mentions an “Office App Store”.
The job description described how Office faces competition from OpenOffice.org and Google and says how to combat that Office is moving to the cloud. It goes on to say how the Office team are planning Office 15 and the candidate for the position described would need to work across Microsoft with many teams including Windows 8″
http://www.neowin.net/news/office-app-store-due-for-office-15
Microsoft announces Lync, new Office Communications Server
Known previously as Communications Server, Communications Online and Communicator, the new Lync branding brings together the products and now includes Lync Web App, and Lync Online. Lync 2010 unifies enterprise voice, instant messaging and web, audio and video conference – all within the same user experience and back-end infrastructure.
Anything Hosted will be deployed a Lync server for our Exchange customers to take advantage of (additional costs may apply).
Forgotten Attachment Detector
Ever written an email, referred to an attachment and then sent the email without the document? Well this handy application might just be for you. It’s a great addition to Outlook and should ensure none of those embarrassing second emails “oops, attached now” 
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/forgottenattachmentdetector/Pages/default.aspx
Office 2010 RTM Released
Office 2010 RTM has been released on MSDN and Technet for selected Microsoft Partners. We have already been using Office 2010 Beta and RC at WEBIT for many months and plan to deploy the RTM version across all our desktops and laptops over the coming days.
Outlook 2010 will be available to all our Exchange customers from April 30th. Volume Licence keys will be available from May 4th and download links will be sent to all our customers shortly.
Office 2010 Beta
Office 2010 Beta was made available to Partners today (public should get it later this week). We’re really looking forward to testing this with our new Exchange 2010 setup.
Note that when Office 2010 is released, all of our Exchange customers will be able to grab a copy of Outlook 2010 free of charge under our licence agreement. Contact one of the team if you have any questions…
PowerPoint Teaser
Microsoft’s up and coming Office 2010 looks like its going to the best one yet, packed with new and improved options. A taste of things to come in PowerPoint include:
- Fully hardware-accelerated rendering engine
- New transition effects and an updated user interface
- Revamped animation effects and a brand new UI (timelines!)
- Animation Painter (copy your animations between objects)
- Choreograph animations with multimedia