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October 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:13 PM

Microsoft Offers Free Office 2007 Upgrades – purchase is necessary

You know when you see something on TV and they say "no purchase necessary"? Well this doesn't apply for this offer : ) Anyhow today Microsoft just announced a free upgrade coupons for those who purchase Office 2003 between Oct. 26, 2006 and Feb. 28, 2007.
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:35 PM

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 final version!

This just in, Windows Desktop Search, WDS, just went gold and is released to the web! You can get it here: Windows Desktop Search 3.0 RTW for Windows XP (KB917013) For all of the other versions for Windows 2003 Server, XP 64-bit and more go here . Questions
Posted by descapa | 7 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:31 AM

Next steps with Connect

As you may know we are nearing the end of the Office 2007 beta and we are getting ready to release Office 2007! Office 2007 is schedule to be available to business customers (and I assume MSDN subscribers) in Oct 2006 and it will be available to consumers
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:15 AM

Customer Feedback – a Success Story & Thank you

From: OneNote team To: OneNote User Community Subject: Customer Feedback – a Success Story & Thank you We would like to thank everyone who has posted bugs and posted feedback for the beta program for Office 2007 and in particular OneNote 2007. For
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Monday, October 16, 2006 11:58 PM

Add a reference to OneNote 2007? No longer under .Net but under COM

There was a change in setup between B2TR and the RTM build where the Office .Net PIAs are no longer placed in the proper place so they appear in the .Net References tab in Visual Studio. What does this mean for you? It means that if you want to add a
Posted by descapa | 8 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 10:17 AM

What being a PM is all about & a real spec

I was just reading this blog about the Windows Shell – shell:revealed blog and I saw a post from VinnyP which is A look into the feature design process . My thoughts: If you want to learn about MS and how software is designed read this post This is what
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 3:10 AM

Fix for Daily Journal in OneNote 2007

I was reading my feeds, I am way behind, and I saw this great post from AdminID over @ OneNote PowerToys , which discusses how to fix the Daily Journal for OneNote 2007. Here is what AdminID says: I was manually recreating the functions of the Daily Journal
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 3:04 AM

Add OneNote Mobile to your speed dial!

I *finally* got myself a Windows Mobile device, the Motorola Q, and I have to say that I love it. There are a few bugs but otherwise it is a great experience for a phone and for email and more. As you could guess I have been using OneNote Mobile a whole
Posted by descapa | 7 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 12:54 AM

Timebomb date for B2TR – When it stops working

As many of you are aware Office 2007 B2TR is set to expire sometime next year. I wanted to post those dates and make them more public: March 31, 2007 - all client products May 15, 2007 - all server products Make sure to save all of your data or upgrade
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 12:42 AM

Send a Smile feedback tool - no comments accepted after October 14

I have written about Send a Smile before and it looks like it is time for it to be over. It has been a very valuable feedback tool for us on the team and we value your input however we are transition from finishing Office 2007 (Office12) we are now moving
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:47 PM

OneNote Audio Search & Audio Search Languages

I am not sure if everyone knows about OneNote's Audio Search but this is the information from the OneNote Guide: With the Audio Search feature enabled, you can search your audio and video recordings for words, just like you would search for typed text
Posted by descapa | 8 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 5:06 PM

Send us your notes! We really want them!

Back during the development of OneNote 2003 the team had customers send in their paper notes. You can see Chris' from January 2004, Handwriting on the wall : We started out with an effort to collect handwritten (and typed) notes. We asked about 1000 registered
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 4:34 PM

Creating OneNote single file packages, archiving & notebook templates

I am not sure if I have blogged about this before but you can easily create single file archives for entire notebooks, sections or pages in OneNote. This will include all of the embedded files, the notes, audio & video and section groups, everything
Posted by descapa | 7 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 3:41 PM

OneNote file formats, changes between 2007 & 2003

As those of you who are using OneNote 2007 know the file format in OneNote 2007 is completely different from ON2003. That being said David has a great post: Why the OneNote 2007 and 2003 file format are different. Some interesting tidbits: Impact of this
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Friday, October 06, 2006 2:02 AM

Question about embedded files and audio/video

I received the following question via the feedback link on this blog and I thought I would share the answer with everyone; write once, publish everywhere : ) I've read the OneNote, What's New for Developers Pts 1 and 2 and looked at the XML schema stuff.
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:01 AM

Send to OneNote from Windows Explorer – Sample App

It has been awhile since I have blogged about the OneNote API so I thought I would post a nice long article showing a sample app I made awhile ago. Goal: Write an app that allows you to send a file from the Windows shell directly to OneNote, and it looks
Posted by descapa | 24 Comments
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:59 AM

OneNote Blog posts over the past month

Here is another set of these from Mike our Test Manager: "OneNote 2007 Beta -- I REALLY LOVE this upgrade." "The beta version of OneNote 2007 is heads and tails over the previous version. For this reason, I'm now fully encouraging it's use." "the inking
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Monday, October 02, 2006 10:52 PM

Restoring the OneNote Guide

When you first open OneNote 2007 you are greeted with the OneNote Guide. I would encourage all of you to leave this open and take some time to read though it. There aren't that many pages and you will learn a great deal about OneNote 2007 and what features
Posted by descapa | 7 Comments
Monday, October 02, 2006 10:07 PM

Introducing our newest OneNote MVP: Patrick Schmid

I just heard this weekend from Patrick Schmid that he is an MVP for OneNote ! Congratulations Patrick, I know you have done a great job contributing to the OneNote Newsgroups and submitting bugs for us. I would like to tip my hat to all of the OneNote
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