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Herein you will find the thoughts of Dave Webster of Microsoft EMEA. I am a Developer Evangelist based in the UK but interestingly enough I work in Europe Middle East and Africa but NOT the UK. You may wonder how this is done, as do I. I used to work as a Principal Consultant in New England US, but I reverse emigrated to the UK in 2003. I spend a lot of time on the road around EMEA talking to people about Microsoft Technology. However the most interesting part of my job is discovering what people are doing out there in the real world with our tools and platform.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:53 PM

Why I love the new file format in Office 12

You may have read about the new file format in Office 12. It is based on a zip file that contains separate XML ‘parts’. When I first saw this I nearly fell of my chair. Let me explain. A few years ago while working in MCS in New England I worked on a

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:36 PM

Office 12

Hey folks I have a new title. Program Manager for Offfice 12 Evangelism EMEA. Now this does not mean I am abandoning my work in ASP.Net but I have taken on the role for the next version of Office. This involves the being the somewhat grandely named Editor-in-chief