A lot has happened since I wrote my first post on OfficeRocker! two years ago. I started blogging in the year preceding the launch of Office 2007 as a way to engage better with people and to explain what we are doing. (see why I blog ). I did a little...

We announced today that we're pulling the WSS 3.0 bits out of Windows Server 2008 RC1 onward. No real change here, it will still be available free as a download and no change to the licensing but WSS won't be on the Server media any more. Not exactly...

Quite a nice new gadget to help you get more from Office 2007.

Good idea to advertise on the back of buses. Shame about the position of the exhaust pipe.

This amused me today from a friend of mine who noticed this. A job application on the Google website for the " Executive Assistant to the Executive Director, Google.org - San Francisco " Check out point 3 from the mandatory job qualifications: Requirements...

Good little article on how to augment the RSS feeds capability of Outlook 2007 using search folders for greater control.

Do you want fries with that? We call it 'attach' - and there are some crazy examples out there: PC World started offering a free PC with an Orange broadband contract. This seems to have ended now but is says they are offering £300 off selected laptops...

Good question in today from Andrew Balgarnie - if you have a question or something you'd like me to comment on or look into just use the email link on the header. He says " Given how much you sing the praises of oneNote / outlook integration why doesn...

Chris Adams, who sits next to me at work, got tickets to the rugby final on Saturday (lucky boy) - sound like it was even better than my wembley experience . He took some pictures of the stadium and then used Windows Live Photo Gallery to automagically...

I've decided to blog smaller items a bit more often as they occur to me so here's a question I answered today which might help others - where can I get some training on SharePoint and InfoPath? Good place to start is the online training at office online...

One of the most exciting experiences in my life was being in the front row at Wembley on Saturday to see England beat Estonia 3-0. Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer visceral excitement of being so close to the pitch in an 86,655 crowd ....

I'm presenting at a blogging conference in a few weeks and as I thought about what I will say I started to ask myself why I bother? Why blog? What is it that makes me think this is a good idea? If you are thinking of starting a blog, maybe this will help...

Mark has announced the launch for OCS on his blog . If you are interested in coming along to the event in Vinopolis, you can sign up at the launch site . I notice that Carston Sorensen is speaking at it - I did some flexible working studies with Carston...

Remember that episode of the apprentice when they had to sell stuff on a shopping channel? Well it was my turn on Saturday night when I appeared on QVC 's Small Office Home Office show to sell Home and Student Edition at the very good price of £63.24...

Leonardo Da Vinci said "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", a truth that has been a repeated theme for me in the last week. Here are some examples: At our recent marketing department offsite I was utterly appalled by the lack of clarity and simplicity...