Originally posted at zdnet.com by Ed Bott – Office 2010 makes a splashy public debut

Can Microsoft hit back-to-back home runs?

The Office team has to be feeling some heat as they hang around the on-deck circle waiting for Windows 7 to release to manufacturing (in “late July,” according to a press release last week). With today’s announcement of a Technical Preview release of Office 2010 at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, it’s pretty clear that Microsoft is taking a mighty cut. But only time will tell whether they’ve crushed it.

My colleague Mary-Jo Foley has a good overview of today’s announcement. I’ve had a copy of the Technical Preview release of Office 2010 running here for about a week, so I can offer some very tentative first impressions (and an image gallery) based on my hands-on experience.

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