Office 2010 Delivering ‘The Right Capabilities at the Right Time’ to Millions

Microsoft programmers wrote millions of lines of code to deliver the company’s latest suite of productivity products, which includes Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, and Lync 2010.

Millions of users seem to appreciate their effort.

Since its release last spring, Office 2010 has become the fastest-selling version of Office in history, said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Division product management group. “We couldn’t be more pleased with the response,” he said.

He ticks off some stats that explain why:

Globally, one copy of Office 2010 sells every second.
More than 30 million people tried Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of Office, within the first 100 days of release.
More than 100 million SharePoint licenses have been sold to more than 17,000 customers.
For the eighth year in a row, Microsoft Office was the No. 1-selling software product in U.S. retail measured by dollar volume, outpacing games and security software.

Before Office 2010 connected with businesses and consumers, it first won praise from many product reviewers in the press. “At last, the suite that users built,” read one headline in InfoWorld. The Boston Globe called Office 2010 “an update worthy of the networked world.”

InfoWorld writer Neil McAllister asked at the beta launch, “So how can Microsoft improve on a product that many customers considered feature-complete long ago?”

Office 2010 Delivering ‘The Right Capabilities at the Right Time’ to Millions