This Tuesday Microsoft officially released Microsoft Office 2010, which includes all version of the productivity suite. With around 755 million of user worldwide Microsoft office definitely dominate Office productivity market share, closest match are way behind down the line. The last office suite, Office 2007 was released by MSFT way back in January 2007, so definitely it has been long awaited version. User can now upgrade to their choice of new Office versions: the $149.99 Home and Student bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote; the $279.99 Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook; or the $499.99 Professional release, including all of the above plus Access and Publisher. With a new version available, consumers are deciding whether to upgrade now, later, or at all.
Office 2010 is the first release of Office that comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Office 2010 is the slickest, most feature-rich version of the suite Microsoft ever released. For those who might expecting to see some remarkable UI changes in this new Office suite, will be disappointed as Office 2010 looks remarkably like its predecessor.
Though the UI remains almost same there were some significant feature addition and upgrades in Office 2010. Have to say most of the features were targeted to business users rather than home users. Reinstated good old “File” menu, inline graphics and charts (dubbed Sparkline), improved document mapping the Word’s Navigation pane, PowerPoint video editing, screenshot capture and insert tool, insert cover page for word document and finally improved graphics editing.
The near simultaneous release of the Office 2010 Web Apps to mimic Google was a total disaster. The peculiarly limited versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote look like the lazy project work of a student. The office document sharing should blush MSFT in embarrassment, as it no way even closer to acrobat.com PDF sharing let alone Google doc. Microsoft’s whistle blowing mobile support for Office 2010 Web Apps was another full fledge disaster. Apps cause random but not so often crash, even sometime if do manage to run unable to read key elements such as One Note Outlines. "Complex document" the very common irritating message will make you feel like God get me out of this hell. On the other hand I got to say, the Word Web App editor handled less-complex documents fairly well.
Well all not bad news for Office web Apps, as is 100% free. Documents are stored on SkyDrive, a Microsoft service that you can log into with a Hotmail or Live password. Microsoft is initially limiting this to generous 25 gigabytes. Integration between Office 2010 and Office 2010 web apps. Is very easy and works remarkable.
Final thought Office 2010 got some remarkable features but lacks any significant UI changes or sparks (well apart from Excel Sparkline 
) Office 2010 Web Apps. is far from even closer to its competitive offer its rivals offers. Web apps needs serious work out by MSFT, and release updates as frequently as possible rather than waiting usual 3 years practiced for its standard office suites upgrade.
In my opinion, Office Web Apps is as robust as Google Docs. There's always the point – both lack enterprise grade robustness. However, Office Web Apps at least score on familiarity.