Microsoft Corp has announced the India launch of its software Office 2010, which incorporates the popular Word, Excel and Powerpoint applications.
While the products will be available to business users from Thursday, the retail (consumer) editions would be launched on June 15 this year.
"The excitement in India for Office 2010 is very high.
The beta version has seen over 1.3 million downloads and over 2,000 companies like TCS, Lowe Lintas, Virgin Mobile, Mindtree Consulting and Infosys are already moving to the latest
version," Microsoft India Chairman Ravi Venkatesan told reporters.
The new edition of Microsoft Office 2010 has introduced many new features as well. For example, users can now embed videos in PowerPoint presentations, have voice-to-text conversion for voice mails on Outlook or see trends for a select set of information (and not the entire document).
"Microsoft Office 2010 is designed to help professionals on the move so that business is not hampered while the executive is travelling and the communication is seamless," Venkatesan said.
The company will also make available its Office Mobile 2010 on Windows 6.5 phones on Nokia smart phones, starting with the business range (E-series).