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Microsoft shows new database technology at MIX - Information Week article

Interesting article that speculates about a potential "SQL Server Live" offering from Microsoft. "In a session called "Accessing Data Services in the Cloud," Microsoft announced a programming model and related hosted service referred to as Project Astoria. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:59 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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Office 2003 SP3 article on CNET

My friend Josh Edwards is quoted by CNET talking about SP3. Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 will be focused on security, said Joshua Edwards, a technical product manager for Office at Microsoft. "We're trying to take what we learned from building Office Read More...
Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 9:30 AM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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Show your best work as a best practice in a Microsoft Case study

The marketing team is always looking for examples of people realizing their potential through best practices with Office System software. When we find people with best practices we write about it at www.microsoft.com/casestudies . For you as a developer, Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 8:47 PM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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Seattle PI article "Microsoft Office 2007 sales twice that of previous version"

These quotes are nice to see. I'm also hearing from online communities an dramatic increase in posts on the new version. Microsoft Office 2007 sales twice that of previous version Microsoft Corp.'s new Office 2007 software produced almost twice the revenue Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:50 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments
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InfoWorld article - "Microsoft: Office training fears overblown"

This is a good interview with Chris Capossela, VP for Office Marketing. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/31/HNofficetrainingfears_1.html This quote does reflect what we have seen in the Access world. Although, you can argue that the Access change Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:03 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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The New York Times "Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software"

NY Times has an good article about the new Office redesign. Nearly these articles are turning out really positive... Nice to see. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/technology/18pogue.html?ex=1169874000&en=46b182d68b8d6444&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS Read More...
Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 10:40 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year - Office 2007 Tops PC Worlds List!

When we started talking about the ribbon everyone knew it was a huge bet. It is nice to get some props! Here is what they have to say: "Innovation? Microsoft? Yes, we were surprised, too, but the Redmond giant's latest upgrade of the world's most popular Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:24 PM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments
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Wall Street Journal's (Walt Mossberg) take on the ribbon

Walt Mossberg an often critical voice about Microsoft products has published his review of the ribbon in the Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116786111022966326-mRGBGB2hIZH7SbdbE2Bg7YVHTDE_20070202.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:02 AM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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History of Microsoft vocabulary tag cloud

Todd Bishop from the The Seattle PI recently put together an interesting series of cloud tags with 64 of the most commonly used words in key Microsoft-related speeches, interviews, internal e-mails and other documents from the past three decade. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/tags/ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:00 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments
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Feedback from a customer about Access 2007

Here is some feedback I received yesterday from a customer. It is nice to see people appreciate the visual improvements. Overall we are happy with Access 2000 and everything worked (or we had developed workarounds for certain behaviors). However, we looked Read More...
Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 11:45 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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PC World review of Access 2007

I'm back from vacation and digging out of a pile of email. I really enjoyed spending quality time with the family--that is what is really important in life. When you love what you do as much as I do, it gets easy to get caught up in work stuff. Any ways, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:48 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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Outstanding review about Office Live on CNBC

I know I have posted a few Office Live links this week and some of you Access developers are getting tired of it. But, here is a video link on a review on what the team has done. http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=e8d35046-a295-4724-9def-d00ba746fc9f Read More...
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 3:14 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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SharePoint Server Review in CRN

I just came across a nice article about SharePoint on CRN. http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=193700573 They did a good job summarizing the Excel Services that are part of the MOSS server "Users can now publish interactive Read More...
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 9:27 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments

PC Mag's Editors Choice - 4.5 out of 5 Stars!

PC Mag just released a review of Office 2007. They gave Office a 4.5 out of 5 stars. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2052256,00.asp I love this quote: " Once you get past the few minutes needed to navigate the new Ribbon interface, you'll wonder Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:27 AM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments
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Access 2007 on MSDN TV

Last week the MSDN TV folks interviewed me about the new version. I gave a 25 minute demo that covers many of the new features we have added to the product. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060413AccessCC/manifest.xml make Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:49 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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