The Productivity Hub is now live ! My colleague Ian has the scoop here and a good overview of what it is and what it does.

Two weeks after launch, we have a lot of interesting case studies on how organisations around the world are using Office 2010. While I had the opportunity to go deep and dirty with some of our Australian customers, it is really interesting to see the...

* (for sufficiently large values of free) Office.com is our one stop shop for all things Office (I don’t even want to know how much that domain cost  ) and it is a veritable treasure trove of resources. Here are some of my favourites: Before deployment...

While I spend most of my time (and most of this blog) discussing Office for business use, in the lead up to launch I’ve been working with the extended Office team here in Australia. To shed some light on the Office 2010 retail lineup today’s guest blogger...

One of the great programs being lead by our MACH hires and Interns this year is Microsoft Protege – a competition for undergraduate students to pitch their ideas for student marketing. As a former MACH (well, you can graduate, but you can never really...

This morning I woke up to some amazing news – Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 have now been Released to Manufacturing. Seeing the excitement from people about 2010 is amazing. As I gallivant around the country delivering our...

Excel is probably one of the most important apps used in organisations today. We spend a whole lot of time researching, designing and optimising Excel for business needs. But Excel isn’t the only spreadsheet app out there – there are plenty of others...

I have to say, Office 2010 looks awesome on the Windows Phone 7 series devices… I can’t wait to see these in real life soon!

One of the great things about my job is that I get to see how Office is used across a wide variety of organisations, industries and users. Nobody uses Office in quite the same way – but then, that’s one of the reasons Office is so popular, so customisable...

Check out my guest opinion piece about Outlook 2010 on Australian IT .

TechFlash had an interesting post about an ex-softie that had not used non-microsoft technology while at microsoft. Wow… they must be talking about a totally different company. As a technology specialist, I make it my business to know all about as much...

2010 will mark the release of the next version of the world’s most popular productivity suite, Microsoft Office. It will incorporate the work of thousands of Microsoft developers, feedback from thousands of customers and over 2 million beta testers. It...

One of the original advertisements for (The) Microsoft Office (For Windows), back in 1990. My favourite bit has to be “overheads that will captivate audiences”. The business world has changed a lot since the days of overheads – but then, so has Office...

Last weeks PDC brought a slew of product announcements, cool demos and new possibilities, but the standout for me was that Office 2010 has hit the beta milestone. As a pretty devoted Office guy, I have been talking, demonstrating, tweeting, watching,...

Well, I thought that once Tech.Ed was out of the way I could sit back, relax and slack off until Office 2010 hit RTM. No. Such. Luck.  In addition to my day job, I’ve been talking about Office 2010 at a couple of my favourite user groups and community...

  Who prints their slides in 2009?

Tech.Ed Keynote is now live on Tech.Ed Online .   Productivity tip – my demo with Lee starts at about 44 minutes in (arguably, by me at least, the highlight of the show)!

The philosophy of many technical folks that I talk to is “Lock it down and save the user from themselves”. While this may seem great from a helpdesk or risk perspective, in reality it means that your users will have to ask you to make the change everytime...

I love July! For one, it brings a new financial year, but perhaps more importantly, it is the eye of the storm. A short period of reflection before the cyclonic winds kick up again. My inbox is back to a manageable size and I can catch up on reading,...

What a week! At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Stephen Elop demonstrated Office 2010 for the first time and the feedback I have heard from people I talk to is “GIMME NOW”. Technical Preview is essentially a pre-beta engineering milestone...

Wow – is it really July already? Last month we had about 150 people join (or watch later) our Office deployment webcasts. When we decided to run these, we were thinking that about 20 people would listen in – so the interest has still been quite high,...

The mini toolbar appears as you select and hover over text, or right click text in a document. This provides a handy font menu for changing the selected text. One of my favourite things about it is that it gets more or less transparent the further you...

Oh, boy – here I was looking to hibernate this winter… but we will be kicking off a local deployment webcast series.    Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 1: Get Started with your Office Deployment Language(s):  English.  Product...

So, it turns out that Wolfram Alpha has become aware… and dived straight into geek humour…    

My favourite Office app is getting a new name and some very cool new features . Groove, the Office collaboration tool for geographically, organisationally, confidentially collaboration has always been great at strategic collaboration, but SharePoint Workspace...