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I met up with my friend Julian Kirby-Johnson today for a catch up on what he's doing. Julian works on the BT Vision project - he's the project manager for the delivery of the integrated solution to BT, working into the US. The BT Vision product is developed...

Really cool new Encarta bot for Windows Live messenger. Just add encarta@botmetro.net to your windows live messenger contacts and then you can ask it your homework questions. It also opens up the Encarta page for you in a control in the chat window. Very...

As Office Live comes out of beta, I thought it would be good to catch up on the latest news. Today I'm joined by Mr Office Live himself - Tim Kimber to tell us more: Hi Tim, perhaps you'd like to introduce yourself and what you do? I'm the Office Live...

Another day, another social networking tool. Seems like every week there's another blimmin internet startup craze to get your head round. I remember the days when I would run off and start setting up my space/site/profile/friends list or whatever but...

ok update on this - I think I've got offers of XP Pro, 2000 Pro, 97 dev ed and pro, Office 95 (no box) and Office 4.3. So does anyone have a copy of Office 95 with the original box? (not just the CD jewel case). Does anyone have 4.2, 4.0 or 3.0?? I'm...

As James Senior beat me to saying , Microsoft has created an SDK for .net programmers to manipulate Open XML documents. The point is that whilst it is technically possible to write a .docx or an .xlsx using the Ecma spec, it requires a detailed knowledge...

Today I'm very pleased to introduce my first guest blogger, Colin Ashurst from the Durham Business School in this the first of a series he will be posting on officerocker. I've known Colin for many years and I'm looking forward to working with him over...

I'm trying to complete my set of old versions of Office and I'm prepared to blatantly bribe you if you have one for my collection. If anyone fancies donating me an old copy (must include the CD box and preferably the cardboard box) I'll replace yours...

Have you ever read a case study from Microsoft? I bet you haven't. More likely, you've been sent one (it got shifted about on your desk for a bit and then filed in the bin), you've sent one to a customer (but didn't really read it yourself) or you've...

"Open battle will boost compatibility" writes the Guardian computer editor, Jack Schofield in a computer weekly article . Open XML will never win over ODF proponents: nothing would. However, the new formats are more open, more accessible and more standardised...

Its fair to say we've had rather a lot of cynicism from the readers of accounting web as to the value of Office 2007 to an accountant so it's great to see John Stokdyk profile this interview with Richard Abel from Aggrawaal & Co. Good quotes: "Our...