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Jon Box has produced another interesting post -- this time on the Office Ribbon (aka the Fluent UI).  In particular, he points out a cool add-in from Office Labs that called "Search Commands" that will help you find your favorite commands...

Stumbled on this recently, about how finance and marketing work together -- entertaining and thoughtful!  An excerpt:  As an ex-finance guy who now works in marketing, I have been involved on both sides of this cycle for twenty years. I have...

From Miguel's de Icaza's web log : Now that controls are part of Silverlight 2.0 and that most of the high-level controls have been open sourced and that they are incredibly powerful and great to skin it makes sense to think again about native desktop...

If you live in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio, or San Francisco, that is.  That's because today marks the debut of Microsoft  Surface in a production, retail environment.  AT&T is using Microsoft's revolutionary Surface tabletop computing...

For those in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries... Ben Flock sent me some info on what sounds like a fantastic -- and free -- event he's working on (below).  Sounds super interesting, and it's a great way to learn about what Microsoft is...

Adam Kinney has a great write-up and preview on the most ambitious web media project ever attempted: NBC's site for the 2008 Olympics.  How big is this?  For the first time, the web will be the first class channel for experiencing the Olympics...

Like many other folks, I got an email today from Jim Womack, founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute .  Like all his emails, it's great, insightful reading.   I wanted to blog this one, and hoped to find a direct link on the www.lean.org...

In case you missed it, ISO has approved Open XML as a standard.  Brian Jones has more here .   What does this mean?  Well, among other things it means that the next version of Office ("Office 14" is the inspiring code name...