The latest version of Microsoft's Office suite of applications, set to come out in June of this year, comes with a fairly updated set of system requirements that, fortunately, still doesn't rule out netbooks from the non-official list of compatible devices. The biggest changes to the system requirements of Microsoft Office 2010 include needing a slightly larger amount of disk space for installation (due to some new features) and a GPU requirement that says a DirectX 9.0c compliant graphics processors with 64 MB video memory is needed for speedier graphics rendering of charts in Excel or transitions in PowerPoint. Users of most of the recently announced Intel Atom N450 processor-equipped netbooks need not to worry, for the new low-power CPU has an onboard DX9 compatible graphics processor. Of course, performance of a netbook might be slightly sluggish compared to an average desktop computer running MS Office, but it's good to know that there's a provision for an office application suite as robust as MS Office with netbooks.
Via All About Microsoft
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
MS Office 2010 system requirements spell out compatibility with netbooks
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