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Said the baby document to its parent document. "Well dear, just like all of us in the Contract family, your life is all mapped out for you. Even in your granny's day life has followed the same journey.     There was a time, back in the years...

Finally I am super super excited (as it were) to announce that beta 2 is now public - hurray! You can download it free from here .

The partner IW blog from the UK team seems to be up and running. I'm adding it to my (short) blogroll as a good resource to those of you in partnerland.

Most weeks somebody on Officerocker asks me about whether we are running the devcon this year. I’m pleased to be able to announce we have the second UK Office devcon planned for June 21-22 nd . Last year we tried this out not knowing what sort of response...

So we had a great time in New York City at the reviewers workshop. While I was there I got a chance to catch up with some of the heroes of the IW faith which was great. Some of them were kind enough to record a "hello" to you, beloved OfficeRocker reader...

How cool is this? This is a test post using the Word blog post feature which turns up in beta 2.

I'm out in New York at the moment with some press and finally got the answer on the word count question . I was lucky enough to get chatting with Jensen Harris today - he is da man - on the user interface design. The word count feature uses 100% idle...

So you'll have seen that we've announced Duet now, our new joint venture with SAP to bring SAP data through into Office apps - mainly Outlook. I was amused by the IDC quote describing the renamed "mendicino" product as a "mashup" and it made me think...

One of the joys of working for a US firm is that at 3pm every day now we all have 2 hours of conference calls to attend. Happily in Microsoft, most are live meetings now and most are recorded. The challenge is, you see, that now I almost always have a...

As you know, I'm a OneNote fan - check out my blogcast to see why. I loved this story which shows just how useful it can be for synchronising audio recording with your notes. The journalist was able to prove that yes, he really did say it. nice. When...

The partner team here have put together their own homage to channel9 but with UK stars. As Steve Clayton says, the out-takes are amusing - there are more out-takes than anything else it seemed to me :-) . It did make me laugh - particularly Mark describing...