OfficeRocker!

As more people install the beta of Office, there are more documents out there in the new file format . Hang on.. Changing the file formats???!!? Are you mad?? But before I start on that, lets revise what have we done and what were the reasons why we...

I just love OneNote. I did hint at this a while back but in my current Office build , 4228, this is all working really well so I thought I'd walk you through it. As James Governor said when I showed him, " It struck me, when he showed me blog publishing...

Yesterday's presentations were to two groups of sales managers from Computacenter to whom I attempted to convey something of the Office System in 40 minutes. I'm not sure I got it across all that effectively. It is pretty hard to get through the 15 desktop...

Take yourself back to that day in the mid eighties, in some smokey, Silicon Valley room where some developers were coming up with the ideas for a new application to help people do presentations. I don't think on the blackboard of brainstormed thoughts...

Perhaps a bit of a random post today but I am thick into the beta lifestyle now. I'm currently running Windows Vista build 5472 (the latest public refresh) and Office build 4228 which is a post beta 2 interim build (beta 2 was 4017) . So time for an update...

Big news today was that we've decided to fund an open source project to build translation tools between the new 2007 file format, OpenXML and the OpenOffice standard Open Document Format. This will enable customers to read and write to ODF from Word,...