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Last Thursday, Microsoft announced that the next version of Office for Mac, which will come with Outlook, will arrive by the 2010 holiday buying season.

New Outlook for Mac

Outlook for Mac will soon replace the current e-mail and calendar program in the Mac Office package, Entourage. Some differences of the Windows version of Outlook deal with the Mac version having more support for more Exchange features, like public folders and features highlighting rights management.

When Eric Wilfrid, General Manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh business unit was asked about the rumors that Microsoft might be working on mobile versions of Office for the iPhone, he had this to say:

“That’s been a popular question. No, there is no news today about any iPhone work.”

The new business edition will sell for $399.

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Microsoft has done it again – as it always has. It has further reinvented and innovated one of its most staple applications, Microsoft Office, and will release Microsoft Office 2010 early next year. In an attempt to discover more about Office 2010, reviews have already been undertaken to test the viability of the changes that Microsoft has implemented. Some of these, as told by CNET, include the following:

"Backstage" feature of Microsoft Office 2010

One of our favorite improvements to Office 2010 is what Microsoft calls the Backstage view. Offered as a replacement for the File menu, Backstage gives you a launching point to share documents, print out your work, set permissions, and other program specific options to get your project ready for distribution. You’ll find all of the usual document management features, like open and save, here as well, but you’ll also get a nice layout of templates for new documents, several different ways to share your work, and print settings and page layouts all in one place. We think people might initially be resistant to a new way of doing things (as is often the case), but once you get used to using the Backstage view for all of your file management, we think you’ll find it useful and efficient to have access to everything in one place.

"Paste Preview" feature of Microsoft Office 2010

Another new feature we appreciate, Paste Preview does away with blind cutting and pasting by showing you what items in the clipboard will look like when you paste them into a document. It works across most of the applications of Office 2010. Once you have content stored in the clipboard, just mouse-over the paste button to view available paste options.

Image editing feature of Microsoft Office 2010

If you use images in your documents, you’ll now be able to perform simple edits from within many of the 2010 applications. Choose from several different image effects without ever opening an image editor. Like most of the new features in Office 2010, these features are found easily in the navigational Ribbon.

It seems that with these new upgrades, Microsoft Office is not only competing against other office-related applications but also photo-editing software. And with many still not inclined to Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista, do you think that the major upgrades brought by Microsoft Office 2010 is a good move for the software giant?