Office 2010 beta is here!

It’s time to have a play.

The public beta has launched and now you can get hold of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. You can download it from www.microsoft.com/2010 and try out some of the new features such as:

· Conversation threading in Outlook

· Improved rules management in InfoPath

· The ribbon UI in SharePoint

· InfoPath “quick” publish functionality

· The Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint (a much improved version of the BDC)

· The new SharePoint Workspace

· Tighter integration between SharePoint and Office (including InfoPath list editing)

· New InfoPath controls

· Slicers in Excel

· The Office “backstage” tab

Personally, I’m really excited about some of the major improvements in InfoPath 2010. I think this means I’ve spent way too much time dealing with forms in the past if I get this excited about a piece of forms creation software!