1 Edit photos in your documents without leaving Word, Publisher, or PowerPoint.

Enhance the visual impact of your Word and Publisher documents or PowerPoint presentations with easy-to-use picture editing tools that let you crop, control brightness and contrast, sharpen or soften and add artistic visual effects.

2 Analyze finances at home and work with improved features in Excel.

Use Sparklines in Excel 2010 to create mini-charts that make it easy to highlight trends in expenses at a glance. Use Slicers to dynamically segment and filter PivotTable data to display precisely what you need, and let the improved Conditional Formatting highlight specific items in your data set with just a few clicks.

3 Access, edit, and share from virtually anywhere with Office Web Apps.

Get things done when you’re away from the office, home, or school. Create documents in Office 2010 desktop applications, then post them online to access, view, and edit with Office Web Apps from virtually anywhere you have Internet access.*

4 Create dynamic marketing materials with improved photo tools in Publisher.

Get professional results in Publisher 2010 with improved photo tools that let you insert or replace photos easily while preserving your look and layout. You can also preview formatting changes before applying them, add photo captions from a library of layouts, and choose from editing options such as changing the shape of photos, pan, zoom, crop, color, and brightness.

5 Find the features you need fast, and personalize your work experience.

The new Microsoft Office Backstage™ view lets you save, share, print, and publish your documents with just a few clicks. An improved Ribbon lets you access your favorite commands quickly and customize or create tabs to personalize the experience to your work style.

6 Build a top-notch database quickly with Access.

Start with prebuilt Access 2010 templates or select from community-submitted templates and customize them according to the needs of your project to make collecting information and creating reports easier than ever. Use professional-looking data bar charts created with improved Conditional Formatting to communicate your analysis clearly and easily..

7 Organize customer information efficiently in OneNote.

Create a digital notebook in OneNote 2010 to capture and organize all your important customer information — text, images, video, and audio from documents, Web pages and e-mail messages — in a single, easy-to-access location.

8 Track and manage e-mail conversations easily in Outlook.

Save time and take control of your e-mail with Conversation View in Outlook 2010. This feature lets you condense, categorize, and even ignore lengthy e-mail exchanges with a single click, so you can manage large amounts of e-mail with ease.

9 Present from virtually anywhere with PowerPoint.

Broadcast your PowerPoint 2010 presentation instantly through a Web browser to a remote audience of one or 100 — even if audience members don’t have PowerPoint — with Broadcast Slide Show.

10 Simplify and streamline printing in Publisher.

Get the results you want the first time with an improved printing experience in Publisher 2010. It instantly shows you the impact of changes as you adjust print settings, lets you simultaneously view the back and front of a document, and even lets you see “through” the paper to preview the other side of your publication to make sure it reads just right.

Resource

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/professional/top-10-reasons-to-try-office-professional-2010-HA101631619.aspx

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How would you like to charge your BlackBerry, PSP, cell phones or laptops wirelessly?  Well in the fall of 2009 this technology will become a reality.  I give you the Powermat System.  (www.powermatusa.com)
This magnetic induction mat along with the receivers will be in every household in the near future.  Just think, no more spaghetti of wires for each device, no more looking for the right power adapter for each device, you just clip on the receiver and lay the device on the mat and you are all done.  With certain models you can charge up too 6 devices simultaneously.  You won’t believe this but this unit charges your device at the same rate that it would if you had it plugged into the power adapter it came with!

The website states that this is only the beginning.  The technology is totally scaleable and someday will be integrated into your desks, coffee tables and even in the walls of your home.  This will give you invisible connectivity points for wire-free living.  Not only that but in the future the next generation will be able to sync to iTunes or transmit video all while charging!

Powermats are already available in many configurations depending on your needs.  The receivers are also built right into cases for the most popular device and there are also power disks that will work with a multitude of gizmos.

Take it from me, this product is going to revolutionize all handheld devices in the future.  There will be no more need for power adapters since this technology will be built into every new product that comes out.

The company’s website is telling us that the first of the products will be out in the fall of 2009.  AlphaKOR has requested to be the first reseller in Windsor and will be carrying this product as soon as it lands!

Chris Brenner

Its finally time to upgrade that old Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 to the new Microsoft Small Business Server 2008.  Microsoft has announced the product is slated for shipping the second half of 2008.  The new “SBS” takes strong solutions and incorporates them into a fully integrated product for your small business needs.  SBS is designed to give you an all in one solution to help protect business data, increase productivity and present a professional image for clients.  This affordable solution integrated it’s robust server 2008 technology with MS Exchange 2007 for e-mail and calendar functionality.  They have also added new and approved features like MS ForeFront Security for Exchange Server and Windows Live OneCare for the server.  Microsoft ForeFront Security gives you built in anti-virus and anti-SPAM while MS Windows Live OneCare helps to protect, maintain and manage your server.  Other products included are Windows SharePoint that helps you share internal documents as well as coordinating calendars, managing issues and participating in discussions all when on the road.  For more information please feel free to e-mail chris@alphakor.com

Chris Brenner