Way back in November 2008 I mentioned a code review of some test scripts. I remembered something I saw many months ago (more than a year?) and this reminded me I wanted to revisit it. The purpose of most of our automation scripts is to verify that...

While showing off OneNote a while back, I had a notebook open on 2 computers. The notebook was stored on the first computer which happened to be named \\johngui-xp2 . I had it open with OneNote 2010 on that machine and with OneNote on a second machine...

Testers at Microsoft are busy. I know that is a simple statement to write and not all the ramifications of it are immediately obvious. You may see a change to some feature (like spell checking, for debate's sake) and be asked to test this across all languages...

I was pointed at a really slick OneNote 2007 project over at CodeProject . Lionel Laske has put together an Azure application that syncs his notebooks to the iPhone and the Palm© Pre™ . Here's a teaser with what it looks like on the Palm Pre: It looks...

One of the many test tasks we perform is verifying that we can print to a wide variety of printers (physical printers, not just print to XPS or Print to OneNote). I've mentioned the lab we have before and even shown a photo of it there. I was walking...

A question I get asked now and then is what condition my " dogfood " machine is in. For instance, if I file a bug about not being able to connect to a shared notebook, I need to mention any networking tools I may be running that could affect...

If you've downloaded the beta for OneNote 2010, you may have noticed we tweaked the way we handle bullets and numbering a little bit. Here's an image of what we did in OneNote 2003 and OneNote 2007: Notice how they are offset to the left of the text?...

The test team has been very busy this year working on OneNote 2010 (you can get the beta here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx ). While we have not had a tremendous amount of free time to create powertoys, I can still dig up the ones...