Chris Pratley's Office Labs and OneNote Blog

So far this blog has mainly been about OneNote and general product design. I started that way because I love OneNote, and with its hard core fan base and relatively newness, I thought it would be a fun thing to blog about (and I will continue to do that...

Well, that was a lot of feedback. I was actually pleased to see so much of it articulate and thoughtful. And of course no problem at all if people want to disagree with me. I just ask that you keep things factual and respectful. It was interesting...

Service Pack 1 (SP1) of OneNote is available in preview form starting today. This is not your typical service pack, as you have no doubt read already. I've already blogged a bunch about what making a version 1 product is like. We're pretty happy that...

Some people publicly and privately have suggested that they find it amazing that I am writing this blog. Some were just generally curious - that's cool. But some of them have been suspicious of my motives because I blog. Three of them have asked how it...

Works - I am afraid I know next to nothing about Works, except that we ship a converter they give us in the Word box. Chinese on the Mac. It's funny you mention that, because a friend of mine who is the PM in charge of MacWord is not only Chinese originally...

This is a little off topic, but I thought I'd share it with y'all anyway. My son was born Wednesday. His name is Ciarán Naoto Pratley, and I'm holding him in my left arm as I write this. He was 7lb 11oz (3496g) at birth, 20.25in (515mm) long,...

Since there are a lot of developers reading this, how about a brief moment to discuss extensibility in OneNote SP1? First, there is a draft of the some documentation available now. Check it out here . Now, the first thing many of you will say...

Excellent. Lots of feedback. But almost all from developers it seems. Having an API for OneNote is certainly the plan, so it is good to hear how people hope it would be used. No need to convince me that it is necessary. And I agree with all the sentiments...

I thought it might be fun to try a little interactive design experience. There's been a lot of discussion about blogging from OneNote, and how it would make a good tool for managing posts, etc. So it is easy to say "hey, add support for blogging to OneNote...

We've had a good week here last week on the OneNote team. First, we heard that we had won a Microsoft internal award for “Best Software User Experience” at our Design Day 2004. This is an event that is held each year as a kind of internal...