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On Amazon.com today, I noticed a feature that David Weinberger mentions in his book, but I don't think is yet available on Amazon's UK site. Books for which they have electronic access to the text have been scanned and effectively auto-tagged. These tags
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Announced yesterday at the CEO Summit, Knowledge Network is a free download for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This starts to answer a question I have had from customers many times over the past few years who want to better way to find experts within
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Hello Office 2007! Branding, packaging and US pricing for the next release of Office were all announced this morning. All the information you could ever want is right here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-15OfficeMoreOptionsPR.msp
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This is one to keep an eye on. www.officelive.com Aimed at the small business market this is the Information Worker group's first foray into online services and will be based sqaurely around SharePoint v3. Keep an eye on the OfficeLive site to see how
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BetaNews reports: International technology standards organization Ecma International voted Thursday to approve the creation of a technical committee to begin looking into standardization of Microsoft Office's Open XML document format. The effort has been
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A week or so back Chris Pratley let the cat out of the bag on OneNote Mobile. This is a version of OneNote that runs on a Windows Mobile phone and will ship with OneNote 12 next year. What does it do? OneNote Mobile enables you to: Capture and review
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Overnight Office 12 Beta participants recieved notification that Beta 1 is available for download. I got my copy installed a few days ago and so far I am impressed with the quality compared to the last public DF4 build. This is much more stable and performance
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Office 12 will make the XML integration features available in all editions of the product.
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I have seen a few posts over on channel9 and a other lists discussing the difficulty of learning a new UI paradigm. I have had Office 12 installed for about 2 weeks now so I thought I would post my experience of starting to use Office 12.
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The Office 12 Preview website has now been updated with more information on yesterday's PDC announcements. Good news is that the site now also has an RSS feed: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/rss.xml
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Jensen is a PM on the Office 12 UX team. His blog will be focussed on the new UI for Office 12.
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More Office 12 UI screenshots and info... This is Excel 12. Assuming you are familiar with the basics of the Ribbon from my last post , this screenshot is notable for a couple of reasons. First you can see an example of the new look charts. Secondly,
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How have you been getting on with the PDC keynote webcast? I have been having real trouble getting a reliable connection. Pictures are lagging way behind the sound, that is when there is any sound. I guess there must be an awful lot of people trying to
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Today saw the launch of the brand spanking new user interface for Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint: the Office 12 Ribbon. The Ribbon replaces all the menus and toolbars, and most of task pane options for the applications that have taken it. Yes that's right, menus and toolbars are (almost all) gone!
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In this morning's keynote session Steven Sinofsky told how BillG has personally taken the role of Lead PM on the Windows SharePoint Services v3 User Experience team. If you are in any doubt about how strategically important this product is to Microsoft,
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