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Don Campbell's Blog about Office 2007, Office Live, Web Office and Office 2.0 trends

July 2004 - Posts

Microsoft buys Lookout
I first read about Lookout in Omar's post, Outlook is a platform . I use it everyday to search my Outlook 2003 inbox, calendar and contacts. Microsoft just announced today they bought Lookout: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040716/tech_microsoft_search_1.html Read More...
Great Summary of SharePoint Portal Server v2 Workflow Options
Daniel McPherson has an excellent post in his blog about Approval Routing and Workflow options for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server. Read More...
Ray Ozzie has a vision for Information Workers
This eWeek interview with Ray Ozzie , the creator of Lotus Notes and more recently Groove Networks is an interesting read. In it, he talks about the new version of Groove, v3 which features integration that enables work styles “between Microsoft Read More...
What's new for the Tablet PC in XP SP2?
This video tour by Peter Loforte, GM of the Tablet PC team is well worth the 10-minutes: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7603 I’ve found that these enhancements have made it much more possible to use a “slate” Tablet PC Read More...
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2.0 is now in beta ! Of course VSTO 1.0 has been out for some time now and is available here . What's great about VSTO is that it allows developers a way to extend Office applications with managed code using Visual Read More...
Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) RTMs
The Information Bridge Framework (IBF) "provides a framework for connecting disparate sources of enterprise information from back-end systems like ERP and CRM to Office 2003 Professional applications via web services and WinForms." It just RTM'ed and Read More...
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