The release of the Office 2010 Technical Preview represents the first time Microsoft has showed off any of its Office 2010 applications. The preview includes only the desktop applications, not the Web apps–which will get their own preview on the Live service in August. Without the Web apps or a preview of the next SharePoint server, the collaboration features in Office don’t actually work yet, but there are plenty of new and improved tools, as well as a new look.
All the Office 2010 applications have the “fluent” interface with a ribbon replacing the menus and toolbars. The look is a little different from Office 2007–the Office button, for example, moves down out of the corner and now sits in line with the tabs of the ribbon (and launches a Backstage menu of options). The look is generally cleaner and sparser. If you find the white background bland and boring, the options in the technical preview reveal that there will be two alternate looks for the final version.
More generational copies are better, when it comes to disaster recovery (even at the home machine level).
From: Acronis Central<noreply@acronis.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Subject: The Acronis True Image Home 2010 and Acronis Online Backup Beta program closure notification
To: John
Dear Acronis True Image Home 2010 Beta Participant,
Thank you for taking the time to be a part of the Acronis True Image Home 2010 and the Acronis Online Backup Beta program! We have used all the valuable feedback that you have given us to improve our latest product Acronis True Image Home 2010 which will launch in a few weeks.
We’re sending this email to inform you that the Acronis True Image Home and Acronis Online Backup Betas will end on Sep 7th, 2009.
You will be able to use the beta build of Acronis True Image Home till Oct 1st, 2009, but we encourage you to purchase the final release of the product to take advantage of all the new features.
After Sep 7th, 2009 your Acronis Online Backup accounts will be disabled and you will no longer be able to perform online backups. After Sep 14th, 2009 all your data will be permanently removed from our servers.
To prevent the loss of the backed up data you may need, please retrieve it from our servers before Sep 14th, 2009. We will permanently destroy the data on these servers after Sep 14th, 2009.
To ensure safety of your data, we recommend you to retrieve the data as soon as possible.
Once again, thank you for your patience and active participation in the beta program. We truly appreciate your time and your feedback is helping us make a better product for you!
