Paul Thurrott has posted part 1 of his Office 10 review.
The Office product line enters an interesting gray area with this version, as Microsoft is in the opening phase of a transition to the Web-based services that will define its .NET ("dot net") strategy for the future. A massive, monolithic product, Office will not be brought forward to .NET, but will instead be retrofitted with .NET-like features for the short term while Microsoft prepares its .NET-based successor, which is based on a project called NetDocs. So Office 10, like its immediate follow-up, the cunningly named Office 11, resembles previous Office suites while providing a number of new trend-setting features that will get us more comfortable with .NET.Read more
