The following version of Microsoft Office availability is scheduled for early on 2010, as it is name suggests, but the software giant made useable for a limited number of testers to technical review.

In the preview, discovered that most applications show substantial differences in their counterparts in the current version, Office 2007.

Although some changes were made to the interface, anyone acquainted with the Ribbon interface in Office 2007 will have little difficultness in starting to work with Office 2010.

Microsoft has also said that any computer capable of running Office 2007 will meet the system necessaries for Office 2010 and later Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The most important feature is the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Unluckily, these are not included in the technical preview version, but hope to get one of these hands, while Microsoft make test builds available in August.

One aspect of Office 2010 that potential users should be aware of its huge size, the installation program has introduced a warning during installation that requires a typical configuration of at least 1.5 GB of disk space free.

This isn’t a problem with terabyte drives on the market, but if you have a laptop or a netbook with flash solid state drive storage, 1.5 GB can be a significant amount of free space available.

In use, we found that the year 2010 and no further requests, which seems more like a code before the release test version.

Changes in the user interface in most common applications are accessible from the Backstage to look a new Office button. And provide access to files, print and share options, it shows a great deal of information on the current document, including permits editing and publication of the application is in compatibility mode.

Cut and paste has also been modified so that users now get an overview of what changes occur. Users get the ability to paste text in Word format with the source or format of the paragraph to be inserted in, for example.

New features include the ability to edit images and add effects in Word, without having to go through a publisher. PowerPoint extends this for the simple editing of video content embedded in a presentation.

Outlook now has a feature called quick action allows the user to combine several actions in one click, similar to macros. For example, a preparation combining defined Quick Step response to the message and delete actions. Users can not define their own list of quick actions, including the ability to move messages to folders.

Another important feature of Office 2010 is to improve collaboration. Word, PowerPoint and OneNote now allows multiple users to work on a document at the same time, but this requires access to SharePoint, whether for business or users of Windows Live for consumers.

In this regard, Microsoft continues a process begun several years ago to integrate Office with other Microsoft products and services, so that customers require a significant investment in infrastructure from Microsoft to get the maximum benefit from the Office.

In general, our first impression is that Office 2010 represents a relatively minor compared to the year 2007, was on the contrary, a significant break with earlier versions of the suite.

Office 2010 if this is useful for current users to upgrade to Office 2007 or Office 2003 is difficult to measure, at the time of writing, Microsoft has not yet revealed the price of the next version.