Microsoft Office 2010 has reached release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage and has been completely finalized and ready for sale. The development of Office 2010 has been a long road and with all that time, Microsoft's Office team has been hard at work to include several new features into the new version to help make Office even better than ever. The team strongly focused on the speed of the software as well as adding neat features, like sparklines in Excel, screen shot grabbing in Word, and the ribbon interface in Outlook.
With this overview of the Office 2010 RTM, we hope to highlight several of the new features in Office 2010 that will affects you, the end user. Perhaps the most important change right off the bat in Office 2010 is speed. Previously, there was many complaints about slow loading speed in Outlook 2007 and earlier, and in Outlook 2010, the loading speed has been immensely increased. In our testing of the public beta released several months ago and now the RTM version, we can firmly say the speed of Outlook 2010 is lightning fast, even when using large PST files full of hundreds of e-mails. With regards to all of the other programs in Office 2010, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, they all load extremely quick and in-program performance is fantastic.