Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Business

I've been an Office user for as long as I can remember and always upgrade to the latest version. Often these upgrades have been disappointing, more like a tax than a true improvement in functionality. Office 2010 delivers enough new and improved functionality to make the upgrade worth it. Outlook, which I use more than any other app, has some good social networking extensions and custom automated "quicksteps" to simplify common tasks. Excel adds innovative sparklines, which offer instant visualization of groups of numbers. OneNote offers cloud-based syncronization with a OneNote iPhone app that makes it a great catch-all tool for daily note-taking in both the office and at home, and on the go. Much of Office 2010's new functionality is immediately accessible and useful. I'm still learning more about it but so far I've found it to be quite stable and worth the upgrade.