The famous Microsoft Office Suite is now available for download to the general public! (provided you have a Windows Live ID). This new version is limited in time (it will be functional until October 31, 2010) but also in number of downloads.
As for new, nothing revolutionary but you can see some significant improvements: Messaging Outlook now includes the Office Ribbon (for faster access to different commands) as well as “persons” which includes all contact information (last message sent, planning, status on social networks, etc..). As with Word, Excel and Powerpoint, they have an interface “refreshed” and some additional options: Navigation Pane in Word, Sparklines (small graphics embedded in a cell) and Slicers (data filtering on dynamic arrays folded).