There will be far fewer versions of Office 2010

Office Professional stays in the lineup, with Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Publisher and Onenote.

The phenomenally successful office 2010 professional Edition (Microsoft sells one every 20 seconds in the US) now includes Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Onenote.

And also the new cheap microsoft software version (aimed, unsurprisingly, at home business users) replaces both Standard and Business versions and includes Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Onenote.

For giant business there are only two versions, Professional Plus (which has everything including SharePoint Workspace, formerly referred to as Groove) and Standard (which adds Onenote and Publisher).

Both range from the to run the buy office 2013 professional Web apps; consumers will get those with the Live services instead.