PowerPoint 2010: Image, video and audio editing is now built-in. No need for 3rd party tools! A ton of new animation effects and display options also round out this app.

The new print menu has a built-in Print Preview mode.	Advanced video display and editing tools in PowerPoint. Notice that the video is also rendered with a reflection on the slide for great looking presentations.

Sparklines let you quickly analyze data in Excel.

Office over Internet
The single biggest feature of Office 2010 is the ability to view and edit your Office documents through a Web browser, if those are stored on the Internet. All you need is a Windows Live account and you will be given space to store Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. All your rich graphics, font formatting, SmartArt, headers & footers will be retained as is and any changes you make to the online version will be automatically synced back to the desktop version or vice-versa. As of this writing, the Office Web version is still under wraps and is expected to come out by the end of July. So should you go for this new version?

Well it completely depends on your productivity suite usage and the best part is that you can use some of the new features even for free. For instance, even if you have Office 2007, you can use the Office 2010 Web suite, but will miss out on the auto-sync capability. You can use the online suite to get most ? but not all of the extremely cool features available in the desktop edition. For students and individuals, the features would be good enough given the price ? free for the online edition and cheap for its desktop equivalents.

Features for corporates
For corporates, the story changes slightly. Office 2010 will allow for central management and deployment as earlier versions. What you can do is also share out documents across teams in a central SharePoint server and get access to even more features in the Web version than the free suite. This makes using the Office Desktop + Web suite even more attractive for corporate users.

For instance, you can actually reduce costs of Office deployments by having only certain Office desktop clients installed for most people and let them use features off SharePoint in the Web version instead. You will however not want Office 2010 if your document needs are very basic. For instance, if you do not need to create visually rich docs or complex pivot tables, you can stick with a cheaper or online only alternative. The cost of the software versus the cost of lesser productivity or poorer impact is something that you will need to evaluate.