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Microsoft launched a lot of public betas of a number of Workplace 2010 items this week. However it also released yet another one under non-disclosure to a pick group of testers: Office Starter 2010.
Microsoft created the code for Workplace Starter 2010 readily available to select testers through its Connect Internet web page late this week. Office Starter 2010,Office 2010 Home And Business, as Microsoft officials have disclosed formerly, Office Starter 2010 could be the replacement for Microsoft Works. It'll be cost-free and ad-supported, includes Phrase and Excel only and allows only basic document viewing and editing.
There’s 1 new feature in Workplace Starter 2010 that I had not heard about previously. It’s called “Office to GO,” according to testers with whom I spoke,Windows 7 Enterprise Key, who asked not to be named. Workplace to GO is installed using the Click-to-Run setup that is part of Workplace 2010. (Click to Run is 1 of the new ways Microsoft is planning to distribute the Office 2010 bits. It streams the bits onto a user’s PC using virtualization technology so that users can be up and running with Office extra quickly than if they had to wait for the entire product to download.)
The Workplace to GO application permits users to download Word Starter, Excel Starter and any related documents to a USB drive that users can then run onany Windows Vista Service Pack one or Windows 7 PC, according to the aforementioned tester.
Workplace Starter 2010 also includes a permanent sidebar that consists of links to a Gettting Started guide, help and support, templates and clip art, and an “upgrade to a paid version now” (with PowerPoint and/or Outlook) setting. Here’s what that sidebar looks like (click about the image to enlarge):
I’ve asked Microsoft for further details about Office to GO and will add anything I get back to this post.
Update (November 23): Here’s the statement I received from a Microsoft spokesperson regarding my questions on Office to GO:
“Office Starter To-Go is a product where Workplace Starter users can create a USB device that temporarily enables them to use Phrase Starter and Excel Starter on yet another PC on as long as the USB device is plugged in. The technology used by Office Starter To-Go, is similar to how “Click-to-Run” operates in that the USB device is being used as the server for a version of Starter about the device. When the device is removed from a PC,Windows 7 64 Bit, Office Starter To-Go is also removed. Starter To-Go is only part of Workplace Starter edition that is pre-installed on new PC’s. It cannot be installed on a separate PC,Office Pro Plus 2007 Key, however it gives our customers the ability to take their Office with them and use it on any PC to open and work with their Word and Excel documents.”
Meanwhile, in other Office 2010 news from this week,Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, I have a bit of extra information about the Office Web Apps public beta that Microsoft launched to testers this week.
As Microsoft officials have said before, Workplace Internet Apps — the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — will be offered in three versions. One will probably be cost-free and ad-supported and aimed at consumers. The consumer version, which is tied to Microsoft’s SkyDrive, is what Microsoft released as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build to selected testers this past summer. Microsoft officials told me this week that the final version of the totally free Workplace Internet Apps product is going to be launched in conjunction with Windows Live Wave 4 (which sounds as if it is a “spring 2010″ kind of thing).
There also are going to be two business-focused versions of Office Web Apps that are going to be available as paid subscription offerings: 1 that will likely be obtainable to enterprise customers to run on-premises and one that is going to be hosted by Microsoft. The beta that went out this week could be the on-premises business version of the Office Web Apps release. To be clear: It’s not the updated beta version of the consumer test build that Microsoft released earlier this fall. (It sounds like the consumer version of Office Internet Apps can not get a new public build refresh before it is launched in final form this spring.)
The business versions require SharePoint Server around the back end. Microsoft’s Office Internet Apps team did a blog post earlier this week explaining additional about the Workplace Web Apps-SharePoint tie-in. That post consists of this diagram:
I’m interested in hearing significantly more from anyone who’s test-driving the new Office Internet Apps beta and/or Workplace Starter 2010. How are the products shaping up? What’s working or not for you?