In September, we announced the Tech Preview of the Office Web Apps on Windows Live. As you may know, the Office Web Apps on Windows Live are free online companions to applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that let you access, edit and share Microsoft Office documents from virtually anywhere.
今年九月份，我们在Windows Live上推出了Offcie Web Apps的技术预览版。正像大家所了解的那样，Offcie Web Apps是一款辅助于Word，Excel和PowerPoint等应用程序的免费在线服务，可以使用户在任何地方轻松访问、编辑和分享Microsoft Office文档。
While the Office Web Apps on Windows Live remain in Technical Preview (meaning they have don’t have all of the features of the final version*), today Microsoft is announcing the beta release of Office 2010 for Windows.
在Offcie Web Apps仍处在技术预览版（不具备最终版本的所有功能）的同时，微软宣布推出基于Widnows操作系统下的Office 2010。
So what does this mean for you as a Windows Live user?
If you are already in the Office Web Apps Tech Preview, you get to experience much more of Office 2010 by downloading the beta and using it with Windows Live.
If you are not in the Tech Preview, you can still join by downloading the Office 2010 beta and following the instructions at the end of the installation. If you don’t want to try the Office beta, you can still sign up for Office Web Apps Technical Preview in the US and Japan by clicking here.
那么，对于一个Windows Live用户，这意味着什么呢？
如果你已经加入了Office Web Apps的技术预览版，那么你可以通过下载Office 2010做进一步的体验，并结合Windows Live使用它。
如果你还没有加入到技术预览版，那么你可以通过下载Office 2010 beta并参照安装最后阶段的说明加入进来。如果你不想尝试Office beta版本的话，你也可以点击这里从美国或者日本市场登录到Office Web Apps 技术预览版中来。
What can you do with Office 2010 and Windows Live? Here are a couple examples:
Work and collaborate as you choose
Let’s say a friend shares a PowerPoint presentation with you on SkyDrive. With the Office Web Apps and SkyDrive, you can view and make quick edits to the presentation and share it right back using SkyDrive – all in a browser without Office installed. But let’s say you want to do more advanced editing – like adding a video. With Office 2010 installed, you can click “Open in PowerPoint” from your browser and continue in PowerPoint 2010 from where you left off. When you are done, you can save your presentation back to SkyDrive by just clicking “Save” and your friend will have access to the latest version.
You can also create Office documents in Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2010 and use the new “Save to SkyDrive” feature in the Office File / Share menu to save the document directly to SkyDrive.
In either case, you can be assured that your document’s formatting will have high fidelity.
通过Office 2010和Windows Live，你们可以做什么呢，以下是一些示例：
随心所欲的工作和协作
比如说一个朋友在SkyDrive上给你分享一个PowerPoint幻灯片。你可以通过Office Web Apps和SkyDrive浏览这个幻灯片并做一些快速编辑，然后通过SkyDrive再分享出去。所有以上过程仅使用浏览器即可，并不需要安装Office程序。假如你想进行更高级的编辑，比如添加一段视频。利用Office程序，你可以从浏览器中点击“在PowerPoint中打开”，然后在本地的PowerPoint程序中继续编辑。编辑完成后，通过点击“保存”选项将幻灯片重新保存至SkyDrive，你的朋友可以看到修改后的版本。
你也可以通过点击“文件/分享”菜单的新选项“保存至SkyDrive”将在本地新建的Office文档直接保存至SkyDrive。
无论哪种情况，你都可以确信你的文档格式会保持统一。
Broadcast your PowerPoint presentation over the web
Imagine that you have created a PowerPoint presentation for a recent school field trip filled with photos, SmartArt and descriptions. Now you want to share it with your grandparents in another city – ideally clicking through the presentation at your own pace while speaking over the phone. With PowerPoint 2010 and a Windows Live ID, you can easily broadcast your presentation to your grandparents (or anyone) from within PowerPoint by clicking ”Slide Show” and “Broadcast Slide Show” from the ribbon (simpler than using the File menu). All your audience needs is a web browser*. They don’t need PowerPoint and they don’t even need to sign in!
通过互联网播放你的幻灯片
假想你创建了一个满是图片，图表和描述的有关最近学校实习考察的幻灯片。现在你想把这个幻灯片分享给在另外一座城市的爷爷奶奶，理想状态是通过电话交流按照自己的节奏播放幻灯片。只需要PowerPoint 2010和一个Windows Live ID，你便可以通过点击PowerPoint 2010快捷面板菜单中的“演示幻灯片”“播放幻灯片”选项与你的爷爷奶奶（或者任何人）轻松分享幻灯片。所有的观众既不需要使用PowerPoint程序也不需要登录Windows Live ID，而仅仅需要一个浏览器而已。
For additional details on Office 2010, please visit the Office website.
了解更多Office 2010资讯，请访问Office相关网站。
如果没说错的话，和以前的Office Live差不多。我用了那个Office Web Apps，真的挺不错。
未来的趋势。