What's New with Office 2010 | Office 2010 Partner Value | Office 2010 Editions Version Comparisons | Office Starter 2010 | PC Essentials | Product Key Card and Traditional Disk Comparisons | Additional Training | More Information
There's a lot that goes into Office, and even more that customers get out of it. What is it about the 2010 release that matters to them personally?
- Bringing ideas to life–the ability to add impact, energy, and efficiency to every project
- Working together–staying connected, communicating, and sharing ideas anywhere and anytime
- Accessing and editing files from virtually anywhere–whether using a PC, a Smartphone, or a browser
Check out the Office 2010 top 10 features:
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With a single image and an easy SKU lineup, Office 2010 is easier to sell to customers.
Single image to preload
Simplify your production, management, and planning with a single, preloaded image that delivers the most popular Office 2010 suites for consumers and small businesses. This alleviates the need to differentiate customer types, customize manufacturing cycles, or match specific product keys to specific PCs.
Simplified product lineup
The Office 2010 product lineup is streamlined to three SKUs, with each product more closely aligned to customer needs, and clearly named so you can quickly identify the right version for your customers.
Product Key Cards (PKCs)
Value-priced Product Key Cards ease the purchase of Office with new PCs, and generate sales conversations that provide upsell opportunities with customers who want the Traditional Disk media. Office 2010 provides more opportunities to boost your revenue and bottom line.
Focus on simplicity
The Office 2010 focus on simplicity means it takes less time and effort to sell–improving sales representative productivity and the time it takes for engineers to install Office 2010 with the OPK.
Easy add-on sale
Leverage customer hardware upgrades–the best time to sell Office is often with new computers. Research shows that most customers want/expect Office to be preinstalled on their PCs.
Clear upsell path to premium suites (SKUs) with higher margins will help your bottom line
A logical progression of applications makes upselling premium versions easier.
You'll realize more revenue and higher margins with Office 2010 thanks to a clear upsell path, from Office Home and Student to Office Home and Business, and from Office Home and Business to Office Professional. Office 2010 meets evolving customer and channel needs to drive demand from satisfied customers.
Office 2010 incorporates innovative breakthroughs that help provide the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.
Customers want Office; it's the most popular productivity software in the world, with more than 500 million users and growing.
New features such as Excel Sparklines, PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show, and Outlook Conversation View are powerful tools that are easy to use and will improve customer productivity.
Dramatically improved OPK experience makes it easier for system builders to preinstall the Office image and sell Office at the time of sale.
The OPK experience has been redesigned to allow for easy preloading of Office 2010, enabling system builders to take full advantage of the Product Key Cards to sell Office with new PCs at the point of sale.
Office Web Apps and Office Starter 2010 will drive awareness and increase customer demand.
The Office Web Apps are generating unprecedented amounts of awareness and interest in the Office Suites. This innovation coupled with the news of Office Starter as the Works replacement showcases innovation and drives demand for the product. |
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Use the following documents for Office 2010 feature comparisons.
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Microsoft Office Starter 2010 is a new base productivity suite that replaces Microsoft Works. It consists of limited-functionality versions of Word and Excel and includes advertising. It does not include PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, or any other applications. End users must purchase a full Office suite to activate the full Office 2010 functionality.
Office Starter 2010 is available only on new PCs in conjunction with preloaded Office suites.
For more complete information about Office Starter 2010, visit the Office Starter 2010 page.
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PC Essentials is an optional licensing program that includes the must-have package of Microsoft software designed to complete the Windows 7 experience for your customers. It includes:
- Office Starter 2010. New base productivity suite.
- Office Single Image. One image that contains all of the elements necessary to preload all three Office 2010 suites onto new PCs for easy end-user activation.
- Windows Live Essentials. Client applications for email, instant messaging, photos, video, and blogging. Windows Live provides out-of-box functionality that consumers have come to expect from their great new PCs.
- Bing Bar. The Bing toolbar delivers the best of the Internet to your customers. It's the safe and fast way to do more, know more, and share more of what you love.
- Bing / MSN Browser Defaults. Set your customers' Browser Home Page to MSN, the world's leading content portal, and the Browser Search Default to Bing, the world's first "decision engine."
For more information, visit the following worldwide OPC page:
PC Essentials for System Builders
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The Product Key Card (PKC) allows Office 2010 activation on one PC (must meet system requirements). The Product Key Card is licensed for one device only and is not transferable to another PC.
Product Key Cards do not include media (discs). Product Key Cards are used to activate Office on a PC preloaded with Office 2010, or the software can be downloaded at Office.com.
Office 2010 is also available in the Traditional Disk version that includes media. This license is transferable, which means you can uninstall it on one PC and then load it on to another.
In addition, Traditional Disk versions of Office Home and Student allow for installation on up to three PCs within the same household. Traditional Disk versions of Office Home and Business and Office Professional allow for installation on up to two PCs if the PCs are used by the same individual.
Both Product Key Cards and Traditional Disk versions are available for all the Office 2010 suites, and both consumer license types may be used to activate a preloaded Office 2010 image.
For more information about the Product Key Card customer and partner values, visit the Office 2010 Sell It page.
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Selling Office 2010 Overview
Take this 30-minute online tutorial to explore Office 2010 partner opportunities, selling and licensing scenarios, and sales tactics. You'll learn how to position Microsoft technologies against competitive offerings and get a list of resources designed to help you market and sell more effectively.
Selling Office 2010 with New PCs
This 30-minute online tutorial is designed for OEM or system builder partners. Learn about new and exciting features, and the value to partners who are selling Office 2010 licenses with new PCs. The course explores partner opportunities, selling scenarios, and Office 2010 Starter.
Winning Against the Competition
In this 30-minute online tutorial, you'll learn about the current state of the industry, Microsoft's overall vision, and the two primary Office 2010 competitors. You'll also find out what the competing technologies offer and how you can best position Office 2010 in competitive scenarios.
For more Office 2010 training materials, visit this Office 2010 Training Resources page.
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Use the following resources to learn more about Office 2010:
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