OfficeRocker!

..and more on this as I learn more about it. Setting my ring to be simultaneous it will ring on the PC and on my mobile as well. If I'm at the PC I can just take the call at my computer. The inbuilt microphone in my HP tc4400 works really well and the...

I like working from home. I like where I live and to be honest, my home office environment is probably better equipped than the office. Since I moved to a 30 minute commute distance away and to a nice house in the country, I've found myself working from...

things I read today.. New ways to sell Office Interesting article with some good quotes from Chris Cap about the future. "We're very happy to be the leading vendor in the space and we want to continue to be the leading vendor in the space," he said. ...

The UI god (and thoroughly nice bloke) that is Jensen Harris has put together a new demo video that shows off the new Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface including "the ribbon". Apart from the annoying lift music backing track which made me want...

It's my fault for not posting this sooner not Colin's and thanks to Mark who nagged me about it today over lunch :-) Here is the second installment from Colin my guest blogger and senior lecturer at Durham Business School. ----- Last week I started to...

Are you a polite or a rude user of communication technology? We've teamed up with The Finishing Academy recently to create a guide for good comm-etiquette to teach us all better manners in using technology like instant messaging. Mark Deakin has a great...

You've been meaning to get round to it for years haven't you? Did you realise that there are some brilliant training courses online that can help. A much underadvertised resource IMHO is the office online training. It takes you through the lesson with...

Microsoft is often synonymous with the classic big American firm but as I'm proud to work for Microsoft Ltd (or Microsoft Un Limited as we call it) in the UK, it's great to be able to add a truly British touch to my product. Today I am back with Jonnie...

Interesting freebie got delivered to me today from Wacom. They've decided to send me one of their new Bamboo tablet pads . I do get asked from time to time how to start using ink without a tablet PC. Even with a tablet PC, when docked it is handy to have...

It's the first week of the new financial year at Microsoft, typically the time when we all get our new objectives, people move jobs and when the music stops, we try to remap the landscape. Every coffee shop on campus is jammed with people chatting and...

The Arthur C Clarke/Stephen Baxter novel "Time's Eye" is a bit of a silly story which brings people of all different times together onto the same planet, resulting in Alexander the Great meeting the British Army and Genghis Kahn meeting astronauts from...