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From meeting crucial deadlines, to selecting the right resources and empowering your teams, Project Standard 2010 delivers new and intuitive experiences to simply plan, manage and collaborate with individuals, teams and your enterprise.

• The Ribbon' makes finding and using your favorite tools simpler with new graphical menus and a familiar experience to help you easily create and manage projects.
• Saved time and effort with familiar and essential functions like text wrapping, filtering, auto-complete, scroll, zoom and more.
• User-controlled scheduling puts you in control and brings together the flexibility and ease of use of a tool like Microsoft Excel 2010 and the power of the Project 2010 scheduling engine.
• Completely new and visually enhanced timeline view, allowing you have a clearer view of tasks, milestones, and phases.
• Team planner. See the right mix of people and resources: simply drag tasks to effectively plan work for your entire team and project. Also, introducing the 'Task Inspector' that offers additional analysis and intuitive guidance to resolve scheduling conflicts derived from a task’s attributes and assigned resources, which you can choose to act upon or not.
• Quicker comparison of budget versus actual versus forecasted values, to measure an initiative's progress with the flexibility of setting multiple baselines. Create high-level time-phased budgets with user-defined categories for costs and labour.
• Evaluation of scenarios and considered options when planning new projects or monitoring ongoing work, is made easier with the new 'inactive tasks' option. You can easily experiment with your project plan and perform what-if analysis
• Enhanced performance and support for very large projects and programs. Project Standard 2010 and Project Professional 2010 are offered in 32-bit and 64-bit options to support a diverse range of project types and sizes.

• Operating System: Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1, Windows Server 2003 R2 with MSXML 6.0, Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 7 or later operating systems.
• Processor: 700-megahertz (MHz) processor or higher.
• Memory: 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher.
• Hard disk: 2 gigabyte (GB) available disk space.
• Display: 1024 × 768 or higher resolution monitor.
• Additional: Product functionality and graphics can vary based on your system configuration. Some features might require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.