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Also new in Office 2010 (Continued)
Office Web Apps
Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They enable people to view, share, and work on documents together with other online users, working across personal computers, mobile telephones, and the web. Business customers who are licensed for Microsoft Office 2010 through a Volume Licensing program can run Office Web Apps on-premises on a server that runs Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Office Web Apps are also available to consumers through Windows Live
Security changes
Fortunately, several new security controls in Office 2010 make it easier for IT professionals to build a robust defense against threats without diminishing information worker productivity. Five of the new controls provide countermeasures for hardening and reducing the attack surface and mitigating exploits. These include the following:
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) support for Office applications A hardware and software technology that helps harden the attack surface by preventing the execution of viruses and worms that exploit buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Office file validation An Office software component that helps reduce the attack surface by scanning files for file format (file fuzzing) exploits before the files are opened by an application.
Expanded file block settings A suite of Group Policy settings that helps reduce the attack surface by providing more specific control over the kinds of files an application can access.
Office ActiveX kill bit An Office feature that administrators can use to prevent specific ActiveX controls from running within Office applications.
Protected view A sandbox environment that helps mitigate attacks by enabling users to preview untrusted or potentially harmful files in a secure viewer.
In addition to these new controls, Office 2010 provides several security enhancements that further harden the attack surface by helping to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data. This includes the following:
- Cryptographic agility for Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft Word 2010.
- Trusted time stamping support for digital signatures.
- Domain-based password complexity checking and enforcement.
- Encryption strengthening enhancements.
- Improvements to the password to modify feature.
- Integrity checking of encrypted files.
Office 2010 also provides several security improvements that have a direct effect on information worker productivity. Improvements in the message bar user interface, a trust model that remembers users’ trust decisions, Trust Center user interface settings, and single identity management are some examples of new features that help make security decisions and actions less intrusive to information workers. In addition, many of the new and enhanced security controls can be managed through Group Policy settings. This makes it easier for you to enforce and maintain your organization’s security architecture.
SharePoint Workspace 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 is a client application that provides easy synchronization of online and offline contributions with SharePoint libraries and lists. By using an Internet connection and Write permission to a SharePoint site, SharePoint Workspace users can create personal site workspaces on their computers. These workspaces enable them to update library and list content locally and easily synchronize with the site. SharePoint Workspace also offers peer collaboration workspaces that synchronize content among invited members. SharePoint Workspace 2010 supports multiple workspace choices and is more tightly integrated with SharePoint processes than its predecessor, Office Groove 2007.
Silverlight interactive guides
Microsoft Silverlight powers the interactive guides that are available with Office 2010. These interactive guides provide simulated menus from previous versions of Office. When users click commands on these menus, the guides show them where the same commands are located on the ribbon or in the Backstage view of Office 2010. We recommend that you deploy Silverlight with Office 2010 if your organization wants to use the interactive guides. Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010
User interface changes
Office 2010 builds on the foundation that was established in the 2007 Microsoft Office system by including the ribbon in all Office applications and by adding a new companion feature to the Ribbon, the Microsoft Office Backstage view.
The Office Fluent UI is optimized for efficiency and discoverability through the layout of commands that are organized into tabs that group related commands together. Both the ribbon and the new Backstage view can be customized by using the Ribbon extensibility model known as RibbonX.
