Microsoft® Office 2010 Versions Comparison

Different versions of Microsoft Office 2010
There are two most popularly used suites available for Microsoft Office 2010, so you can choose the edition that delivers the maximum value to your organization. In general, Microsoft Office Standard 2010 provides a comprehensive toolset for individual productivity, and Office Professional Plus 2010 offers a complete toolset for both individual and team productivity and connects users to key business processes. Both transform ideas into professional-looking documents, create dynamic presentations and share them with your audiences, store and share thoughts, ideas, and information. MS Office Professional plus 2010 comes with advanced Web application tools which help you to stay connected and communicate with people but these applications are not included in MS Office Standard 2010.

Let us now compare to its previous versions:

View and edit documents with web browser
Work with SharePoint content offline
Use Office from a mobile device
Managing your schedule and meetings efficiently

View and edit documents with web browser

Outlook Web Access 2003 gives you the freedom for accessing e-mail, contacts, and calendar through a browser. In Access 2007 the same features are embedded but you get an ability to preview documents in e-mail messages. And in Outlook Web Access 2010 you get online companions to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can review and make edits to documents from a supported web browser. You can also get new conversation tools in the Outlook Web App 2 along with the Ribbon in a new redesigned interface that supports presence and IM integration.

Work with SharePoint content offline

This option is not available in MS Office 2003. Microsoft Office Groove 2007 includes a SharePoint Files Tool, so you can take SharePoint document libraries offline. With SharePoint 2010, you can take lists and documents offline. And after completing offline work and reconnecting, only the changes are synchronized, so updates are faster.

Use office from a mobile device

In 2003 version with Office mobile 5.0 you can have only the view only access to your documents. The Office mobile 6.1 in 2007 provides with basic authorization and editing capabilities for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But the Office mobile 2010 provides with much more advanced authorization and editing experience for your documents. It also provides touch friendly navigation to the users.

Managing your schedule and meetings efficiently

The Office Outlook 2003 provides you with basic calendar access through MS Exchange Server. In 2007 it is improved, you can send a calendar snapshot to others by e-mail, view multiple calendars at once, and take advantage of the Meeting Scheduling Assistant to simplify organizing a meeting with others. In Outlook 2010, when you receive a meeting request, you get a preview of the calendar to see how the request affects other calendar items without leaving their inbox. Schedule View, Group Scheduling Tools, and Team Calendar make it easy to see what everyone on the team is scheduled to do.

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