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Another day in the Office


A blog about Microsoft Office, Groove, SharePoint, Software Development, Business Productivity, Social Computing, Cognitive Science and anything else that comes to mind.

This stream of conciousness brought to you by Alistair Speirs, Office Technology Specialist @ Microsoft Australia.

March 2008 - Posts

Did You Know: SharePoint does Optical Character Recognition
Say What? OCRing TIFF files? This is news to me. SharePoint - is there anything that it can't do? How to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files update: unfortunately, Read More...
Joel on Standards
Well this war of words on document standards is almost over (Yay!). With all this scrutiny of OpenXML, I wonder what sort of scrutiny will be placed on ODF in the future. But anyway, lets take a look at the issues of standards (meta-standards?). Why are Read More...
Microsoft redefines ECM
See this forrester presentation (pdf). It looks like the idea that ECM doesn't need to be complicated to be valuable is validated. Read More...
He Should be using a Tablet PC...
  EXTRALIFE - Web comic Read More...
An OpenXML reader written in Silverlight?
Yes. Intergen Textglow ... from those crazy guys across the Tasman in New Zealand. (FYI - this requires Silverlight 2.0 beta - so if you are still running the old 1.1 alpha (like I was), Dude, Upgrade! ) Read More...
Does Australia value Technologists?
I'm in a tell-it-how-it-is mood today. Are we just a nation of sheep shearers and miners? Here is a snapshot of a reputable Australian newspaper's IT section: D&D co-creater dead. While tragic, this guy was hardly a technology pioneer, it was all Read More...
braindump...
I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are Read More...
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