Hi, my name is Vivek Narasimhan and with my colleagues David Mowatt and Humberto Lezama we are excited to take you behind the scenes to meet one of the best kept secrets in the next version of Office and SharePoint: the Office Store. This is an exciting...

We started this blog with a couple of posts that introduced the new Office cloud app model and the principles behind it: web standards, simplicity, security and performance, consistency, and flexibility to developers. Brian Jones already talked about...

I’m Jim Crowley, a senior programming writer who works on SharePoint developer documentation. My team has been working on a number of resources, articles, and samples aimed at introducing the SharePoint 2013 app model to a wide audience of developers...

Hi! My name is Jay Schmelzer and I’m the Director of Program Management for the Visual Studio BizApps team. My team delivers the Visual Studio tooling that enables developers to target the Office, SharePoint and Windows Azure platforms. With the...

Hello, my name is Hila Shemer and I'm a Program Manager on the Office Solutions Framework team. In the past few weeks, we've posted several articles presenting the new apps for Office platform (you should definitely check out Brian's post and Rolando...

Earlier this week we opened the doors to the Office Store . Today, we are announcing the launch of our developer contest to select the best apps for Office and SharePoint. There are big prizes to be won—from a $10,000 grand prize to Xbox + Kinect...

This article is brought to you by Elisabeth Olson and Russell Palmer, Program Managers in Office and SharePoint. Apps are the new cool thing in Office and SharePoint, and we’re already seeing a lot of excitement around them. We want to make sure...

Medal Tracker is a new template in Excel that uses three apps for Office to quickly find and visualize information on Olympic medals. To try it for yourself, download Office 2013 Preview , open Excel, and choose Medal Tracker from the list of templates...

This article is brought to you by Thomas Mechelke, Program Manager for SharePoint Developer Experience team. Thomas has been monitoring our new apps for Office and SharePoint forums and providing help on various topics. In today's post, Thomas will walk...