Microsoft Office Suite 2010 is released for businesses customers..

Microsoft started selling its Office Suite 2010 to businesses customers with the noticeable inclusion of Web friendly features of the main components of the software.
That constitutes a radical shift from the software giant company which is being forced to jump unto the new trend of releasing applications on the Web instead of having people install them on their machines. But don't hold your breath yet since Microsoft foray into cloud computing as that new technical trend is called, is very tentative for now. Unlike Google Docs, Google competing document editing software entirely based on the Web, Microsoft is not giving away its cash caw that accounted for close to 60% of its operating profit during the last fiscal year.
Even thought Office Suite 2010 for for businesses contain a Web version of Excel, Word and others Office applications that will reside in users' browsers instead of their machines allowing them to collaboratively edit documents, the bulk of the program will still need the traditional machine installation. One of the components of the program that will fall in that category is a new Outlook email feature that can access information from Facebook and others social networks to give users a glimpse of what their email recipients are up to online, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The paid version of Office Suite 2010 for businesses will run from $100 to several hundred per users per year and usually require the purchase of additional software to enable collaboration between users.
For consumers, Microsoft is giving away a free Web lite version of Office Suite 2010 that contains advertisements, the Wall Street Journal notes.

For more, see WSJ.com