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Following up on yesterdays post, I just want to add that there is also a set of cool customizations available for Word, Excel and PowerPoint to make them more useful for students and teachers. Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office provides templates
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I've been blogging for 18 months now and as I was looking through the stats yesterday I thought I'd share with you my most popular posts.
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We are looking for an experienced SharePoint/CMS consultant to come and join our team based out of Reading, UK. The official job description is below. This is a really exciting time to join Microsoft as we are just starting to ramp up for the Office 12
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Anytime now Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 should be available for download. Key enhancements include: · Improved Security – SP2 includes an enhancement to Outlook to help prevent “Phishing.” Outlook has also improved the handling of “Junk” email. Junk
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Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate is now available for download from the MSDN subscriber download site. The build is compatible with the September CTP of SQL Server. Both of these builds will be handed out to PDC attendees in the keynote session later
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[No Office/Dev content in this post, so look away now if you are not interested] On my way back from Seattle I was caught up in the chaos at Heathrow last weekend. Strike action caused all British Airways flights to be cancelled for around 36hrs, including
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Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information. The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections
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Arrived in Seattle late last night after a marathon 21 hour journey. There are just too many people headed into Seattle this weekend - all the good flights are full. There were a couple of plus points to the journey. We got fabulous views of the glaciers
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Korby Parnell writes that videos of the presentations from the 2nd annual Microsoft Social Computing Symposium are online. One that caught my eye is a session from Microsoft Research: "Tesla and Tagging for the desktop". This is a take on the del.icio.us / Flickr social bookmarking and tagging concept brought to the dekstop.
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I hit a showstopper installing the SQL Server 2005 April CTP. I think the problem may have been related to having an instance of SQL Server 2000 already installed on the box. Mauro had the answer though.
Thanks Mauro. I’m now subscribed!
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Windows Desktop Search has been Released to Web: http://toolbar.msn.com/ The Beta version, then branded as MSN Desktop Search, shipped around Dec of last year. New in this version you will see the Preview Pane, much like the one in Outlook, and an improved
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Interesting discussion on Ryan Dawson's blog around a task-oriented UI for Windows. http://www.longhornblogs.com/rdawson/archive/2005/05/12/14064.aspx
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This is an interesting move by the BBC. It is opening up its content and providing APIs free-of-charge to enable developers to create non-commercial applications. “backstage.bbc.co.uk attempts to encourage and support those who have provided most of the
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A number of my customers have recently presented me with an interesting question. Some CIOs and architects I have been talking to have latched onto the web part capabilities in SPS and are envisioning a solution for structured task workers that makes
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Good news! Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the SQL Server April CTP are on their way. The Beta 2 build is currently being prepped to go live on MSDN subscriber downloads. If you have been desperately waiting for these bits (and I know I have) then your
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