Many people are used to using office 2003 & 2007 editions, but what kind of fanfare will be greeting office 2010?

Many complain about the lack of features in Office 2010, so new ones include:

Word 2010: Navigation pane, Find and a integrated screen capture

Outlook 2010: Conversation view, Quick steps and a social connector

Powerpoint 2010: Broadcast slide show, Video formatting and inline editing

Further read: http://www.winsupersite.com/office/o2010_beta_apps.asp

These are all the new major features in the beta, but more is to come

Many people wondered why OpenOffice or GoogleDocs couldn't live up to Office, simply because of quality that can't be matched.

Although I personally feel that these open source applications aren't so great now, when open source becomes a worldwide phenomenon, these applications will beat Office unless they integrate Office with web applications.

What do you think?

Probably really well considering the excellent uptake of Windows 7 will help speed this one along too.

What else is there that companies will buy? Nothing.

Google apps does ok, and Open office has a small following, but office is going to do what it always does. Dominate the applications world.

Oh, and just FYI. Most midsize to large companies buy corporate licenses from MS that allow them to sue whatever version of Office they want, so if your worries about 2010 competing with 2007, don't. Once licenses fits all :)

Agreed. Most companies are used to office 2003.

Never liked the Ribbon interface.