Office 2010 - 64-bit

Office 2010 is out, and after playing with the beta for a few months I can definitely say that they have polished the ribbon.  The ribbon interface is now intregral in the entire office suite.  On the infrastructure side of things, you can get office 2010 in 32 and 64 bit.

From experience, I would not get too excited on 64-bit office.  I do not know anyone who has approached the limits of rows and columns in excel, or attempted to import the entire library of Congress in a single word document.  There may be a performance benefit, but the downside is that several plug-ins are just not 64-bit ready.

The biggest loss are theo social networking plug-ins that are now built into Outlook.  As of right now, plug-ins for Linked-in and Facebook only support 32-bit.  Other imcompatibilities include integration with Windows Mobile and applications that attach to Word to send out form letters.  Hopefully by service pack one the 64-bit flavors of Office 2010 will be ready.

If you are interested in obtaining copies of office 2010, Digital Foundation is a Microsoft Software Advisor specializing in volume licensing and also deployment via Active Directory's Group Policy.  Visit http://www.digitalfoundation.net/contact/quote.aspx to request a quote.

Microsoft Volume Licensing Changes

Lot's has changed with Microsoft's Volume Licensing plan.  Previously they offered 4 office suites:

Standard	Small Biz	Pro	Enterprise
Word Excel Outlook	Word Excel Outlook w/ BCM PowerPoint Publisher	Word Excel Outlook w/ BCM PowerPoint Publisher Access	Word Excel Outlook w/ BCM PowerPoint Publisher Access OneNote Groove

No longer will they license Office Small Biz and Office Enterprise.
Instead there is only Office Pro 2010 that will have ALL products there were formerly in the Office 2007 Enterprise Suite.

As with every Licensing Plan change, the prices change a bit too. If you are interested in Volume Licensing, you can request a quote from our website at: http://www.digitalfoundation.net/