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This week we began our internal readiness work at Microsoft to educate internal employees about the new betas. We think now that the beta 2 is stable enough for us to start deploying it internally. It is a fundamental principle at Microsoft that we use...

Weds and Thurs this week we held the second ever UK Office Developer Conference following on from the success of last years one. This time we were in the Hammersmith Novotel and had about 400 or so developers, 26 sessions over the two days, hands on labs...

As so many of you are asking me about where to submit feedback or log bugs on the beta 2, I thought it would be worth linking to the Office Preview Site Community Newsgroups     The 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2 has been an extremely popular...

Not Office related but cool nonetheless:     This little tool from msn gives you live feed info and adds up all the group tables for you.

And big brains. I had the pleasure of briefing James Governor from RedMonk this morning. I must say, I do look forward to my sessions with him. James is refreshing. He's smart, opinionated, passionate and technical. If I can explain how it works, he doesn...

Today we are announcing the availability of an Office add-on tool which helps businesses and individuals to protect their IP in documents. The tool will be a "copyright licensing tool" to make it easy for authors using Office to select a Creative Commons...

I want to introduce another UK Office blog from our team produced by Gill and Charlene. The OfficePioneer is designed to give an honest view of the joy and pain of working with our beta versions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Full of tips and information...

I had the privilege of presenting to some sixth formers at Eton college today about a career in IT. Of course the erstwhile head of Office development, Steven Sinofsky writes a blog , bizarrely in my opinion, about careers in IT aimed at college grads...

It's been just over 5 weeks since the beta 2 went public and I thought you might be interested in how that has been going. We had a target of a million users worldwide by RTM and we surpassed that easily in the first month. In fact this was about three...

We’ve announced today the availability of the online test drive for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.  This is a ‘try-it-before-you-buy-it’ program that allows people to explore the benefits and enhancements of the 2007 release through their Web browser...

Also, to follow on from my last post about feedback, there’s also a tool available for anyone called the “Send a Smile” feedback tool – this provides an easy route to have your say to the Office product team over any elements of the software that you...