There is that phrase about today's news being tomorrows fish and chip wrappers but not in the world of digital information. Now we find out that Google logs every search we ever did , it got me thinking.. as technology advances and search improves...

Comic Sans is a font never designed for the purposes it is often used for but people use it because they want a more contemporary look and a more personal feel to their text. This is one reason why we have introduced new fonts in Office 12. They are also...

To follow on from my previous post on this, here is another good article on the Corel decision to support the Office 12 format, OpenXML and PDF (like we will) but not ODF. Paraphrasing from the article.. Greg Wood, communications manager for Corel...

I bust my knee this week and can hardly walk so I'd probably settle for being able to run like a girl at the moment. He has a brain the size of a planet, some say he can hold his breath for 15 minutes, he is Time magazine's person of the year .. Yes...

Jeff talking to CNet about Office Live . I'm really excited about OfficeLive, particularly for small biz where it really is an amazing deal. You get a lot for FREE or an ad-free version for a modest subscription. Some key points that people have asked...

According to Clive Akass (who I demo'd O12 to earlier in the week) in his recent post "New Wordperfect will support Office 12 formats" Corel have announced that they, like us, will be supporting PDF and our new file format for O12, OpenXML. Even more...

One of the great things about being an Office PM is that whenever I do briefings to press, I'm always assured of one thing; they may love my product, they may have gripes but they all know what it is and most of them use it everyday. On the whole, whilst...

blimey what a lot to say - so much so that I've hit bloggers block for a few days. Just been in Seattle for a week at our internal "TechReady" conference. This is the main way that Microsoft teaches us about what's coming up. You get to live like a student...

a bit surreal but apparently Robert Fripp has done the sounds for Vista - check out this channel 9 vid . Fripp played at the last G3 tour with Vai and Satch in London which I went to with my friend Martyn. Whilst Satriani and Vai were godlike as usual...

Post on scobbleizer today about O12 worth a read. the article links to on Paul Thurrott's site is pretty good summary of the central themes in O12. It goes over the new UI, getter better results faster, working across boundaries and talks a bit about...

I loved OneNote - did everything in it, used my tabletPC to the max, wrote notes all the time with the keyboard and the pen, recorded meetings - fab. then I went off it. It just got too hard to find stuff, remember where I put it, search for it...