Time To Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft has announced that their bundle of job applications, Office 2010, which was released to businesses last week, will be available also for consumers on June 15, 2010.

In addition to new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and other Office applications, Microsoft also provides an online version of Office 2010 for buyers of the application bundle. Office Web Apps itself is a lightweight version of Microsoft’s word processing, spreadsheet and presentation maker that is designed as a reply from an online job application like Google Docs and Zoho Office.

However, two applications of Google and Zoho Office have been instrumental in bringing healthy competition and successfully forcing Microsoft lowered the price of their Office.

For comparison, three years ago, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook outstanding for U.S. $ 480. But now, the price of Office 2010 Home and Business version, which includes four applications above includes OneNote, now the price is only U.S. $ 290. For information, since the end of April, Amazon has provided services for pre-order for Office 2010. The online retailer now lists the price of Office Home and Student version for three users for about $ 145, Home and Business version for one user to U.S. $ 290, and the Professional Version of U.S. $ 590.