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Microsoft Office, love it or hate it, chances are you use it. It’s been three years since the launch of Office 2007, so we’re due for an upgrade this year. Office 2010 comes with a list of new features and changes, none of which looks especially radical, but come off overall as welcome improvements. Here are 10 of them you can look forward to in Office 2010.

1. Office Web Apps

Similar to Google Docs, Office Web Apps lets you review, share and edit office documents, which have been saved online, straight from the browser. Unlike Google Docs however, Microsoft promises ‘high-fidelity’, which simply means Web Apps won’t mess up your formatting and documents should appear in the browser just as they do in Office. Web Apps aren’t full-blown ports of their desktop counterparts though, think of them as basic, streamlined versions instead.

The downside? Not every Web App will be available at Office 2010’s launch. OneNote Web App and editing via the Word Web App, co-authoring for Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010, and OneNote 2010 will become available only in the second half of 2010.

2. Recover Unsaved Documents

We’ve all been there, maybe via an accidental click or a power outage, closing Office without saving all our hard work. Office 2010 now auto-saves and keeps the version you didn’t save until your next editing session. The downside? This feature is not turned on by default.

3. Paste with Preview

According to Microsoft, the most commonly used command in Office is Paste. The second most commonly used command is Undo after Paste. That’s because Paste can be such an unpredictable beast, making pasted text look all odd or normal depending on its ‘mood’. The new Paste with Preview feature solves that by showing previews of what your pasted text will look like using different settings before you commit.

4. 64-Bit Office

You and I may not crunch 16GB of RAM while working on Excel. Microsoft assures us however that there are statisticians, businesses, scientists, analysts, basically users who work with extra large datasets and will appreciate having the ability to address more RAM in a 64-bit environment.

5. Conversation Views in Outlook

Also known as threaded email, this is hardly new to the rest of the world but it’s a welcome addition (at last) to Outlook. Conversation View pulls together all the separate emails in one single email thread and consolidates them into one single email, de-cluttering your inbox and making the entire conversation easier to read.

Even better, if the folks are chattering about something you don’t want to know, simply click the Ignore button and all further emails in the thread go to the Deleted folder automatically. The downside? Conversation View isn’t switched on by default.

6. Quick steps in Outlook

Custom build single-click buttons that will launch multi-step commands with Quick Step. With a single click, you can create a new email that already has a populated list of your favorite people to email to. But it doesn’t stop there and there’s much more convenience awaiting once you identify a chain of repetitive tasks which you can accelerate with Quick Step.

7. Surf Facebook Even Without Facebook

The all-new Outlook Social Connector lets you plug social networks into your inbox. See everything, including status updates, messages, even view shared photos all in Outlook, including profiles of the people you email. Perfect for the offices where Facebook is banned. The downside? While some third-party plug-ins are already available, Facebook is still in development. Also, do we really want to mix work and private lives that much? It’s certainly convenient, but we’ll let you decide if you would like to take that step.

8. Embed and Edit Video into Powerpoint

Gone will be the days when presenters had to switch between PowerPoint and Media Player just to show a demo video. Videos can now be embedded right into PowerPoint slides and it even has simple editing controls within PowerPoint itself. Believe it or not, changes are saved almost instantaneously as they don’t directly alter the raw embedded video. So now we can watch less of the boring stuff and have more of the exciting bits.

9. Customize Your Ribbon

We know how that sounds, but it’s not what it is. Office 2010 lets you customize a tab on the ‘Ribbon’, the user interface that sits on top of your document. Now you can have all that you need right where you need it (and no more blaming Microsoft for bad UI, now it’s your own fault entirely). The downside? The process to customize a tab looks less easy with complicated ticking of multiple checkboxes instead of the old ‘drag and drop’.

10. Backstage

Replacing the old print preview windows and the old File drop-down window is an entirely new page called Backstage. It’s your new one-stop centre for document management all in one page, including print options, previews, version recovery and save to options.

Microsoft Windows 7 more than spin. This is a stable, smooth and polished, the introduction of new graphics and control devices, and security enhancements that make it easier and safer. Importantly, it does not require hardware upgrades that Vista requires, in part because the hardware caught up, and partly because Microsoft went to great lengths to make Windows 7 available to as many people as possible.

Microsoft offers six versions of Windows 7: Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, OEM, and Enterprise. Three versions that Redmond will be the promotion of the most severely are the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, but for beginners also will be available to consumers. Robust and Microsoft do not always go together, but it does in Windows 7. You can take a while to get used to new challenges and Aero Peek, but are pleasant to use.

Windows 7 will support both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The bare minimum requirements for the 32-bit include a 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB available hard-disk space, and a DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver. 64-bit systems will require at least a 1 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 20GB of free space on your hard drive, and a DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver. A Touch screen monitor is required to use the Touch family. Note that some users claimed that the limited success of the launch of Windows 7 Beta 1 GB of RAM, but not recommended.

Windows 7 looks like an operating system like Microsoft and its customers were waiting. The setting of most of the perceived and real problems in Vista, Microsoft has laid the foundation for the future, where windows will go. Windows 7 is a stable platform that can compete with the convenience of OS X, ensuring that the world is  still strong, the operating system useful.

Chrome OS, announced by Google in 2009, promises to be an open source Linux-based operating system that runs on x86 and ARM. It is based on the Chrome browser, and will initially focus on low-power netbooks with the support of higher-end systems comes later. Currently, Google provided more detailed information on Chrome OS, easy, browser-based OS for netbooks. With emphasis on speed, OS Chrome promises almost instant load times around 7 seconds for a user ID on their computers.

The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010. It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead of chrome OS only traffic on a specific hardware manufacturers working with Google. This means that if you want Chrome the operating system you have to buy a device from Chrome the operating system. Google is working with PC manufacturers are not identified for determining the specifications for these computers, it will include larger netbook-style computers with full-size keyboards, large trackpads and large displays. Chrome OS netbooks will not traditional hard drives – which will feature non-volatile flash memory and online storage to store all your data. All applications will be Web means users do not have to install the applications of change management, and even a data backup. All data will be stored in the cloud, and users will not have to worry about antivirus software: Google claims it will monitor code to prevent malicious activity in Chrome OS web apps.

However, Chrome OS is an open source project and according to what Google released the source code. Entrepreneurs went ahead and created a compiled version of the operating system – allowing users to download and run the operating system on their machines working in a virtual machine. This is not exactly the same way that she works in the national team, especially in speed, but is a way to get a taste of what it is. Since then, the version that runs directly from USB Key has also been made available, which should provide a more realistic experience of the native hardware. Although only had time to test in a virtual machine version, but we will update this time we have a working version of USB. Chrome showed that operating system will only be placed in a specially designed hardware, and not available for purchase before Christmas – in 2010.

Official Apple device users can now feel the additional capabilities offered by IOS 4.2. There are several steps that must be done to upgrade the new operating system capabilities.

Quoted from various sources, the following steps that must be considered in making immigration to IOS 4.2

Compatible gadget
The first step to start the IOS 4.2 upadate this, first make sure your device is compatible with IOS 4.2. Here’s a device that supports IOS 4.2; iPad, iPhone 3G, 3G, and iPhone 4, iPod Touch 2nd, 3nd, 4nd Generation

ITunes Update
Before the update to IOS 4.2, make sure you’ve updated iTunes to version 1.10 on a Mac or PC. Mac users can go to Apple menu> Software Update, while Windows users can select Help> Software Update to ensure the latest version of iTunes is already installed.

Data Backup
IOS update 4.2 to iPhone OS can erase data on your mobile phone and then restore it. Just as data in computer, information about the data IPAD, iPhone or iPod touch can be forever lost if not supported. Back up data in iTunes every time you synchronize with a Mac or PC, so you should have a copy of all your important information securely stored.

Ready to update
Next visit the AppStore is available on iTunes and on iPhone or iPad make sure you have the latest versions of all your applications. Most applications should run well after you update the IOS 4.2.