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

June 2006 - Posts

Blogs, RSS and Wiki Capabilities!
We recently posted a Channel 9 Interview that shows our new Blogs/RSS/Wiki functionality in Windows SharePoint Services v3. This is very exciting stuff to be able to talk about finally. We’ve been using this functionality more and more internally at Microsoft, Read More...
Word 2007 on Aero Glass
Cool - Long Zheng is at it again with this new screencast showing off Word 2007 running on Vista Aero Glass . He takes you on a tour of Word 2007, and covers a ton of features including: Editing and Publishing Live Zoom Live Style Preview Cover Page Quick Read More...
Want a Quick Tour of Windows Vista?
Check out these short, high quality Screencasts by Long Zheng . He takes you through many of the coolest new capabilities in Vista, including: Windows Aero Glass File Copying Guided Help Tablet PC Windows Sidebar Vista Search Media Center I really enjoyed Read More...
New Channel 9 Interview - OBA
We just posted a new Channel 9 Interview with Lewis Levin, Corporate VP of Office Business Applications (OBA) strategy. OBA was announced at Tech Ed today. Essentially, OBA provides a set of services that enable users to access information and processes Read More...
The real Web Spreadsheet: SocialText + WikiCalc?
Amidst all the buzz that Google’s Web Spreadsheet has been generating, Rod Boothby has an insightful take on the recent events in his post: Spreadsheet Wars! Microsoft, Google and SocialText . SocialText is now providing an enterprise solution for web-enabled Read More...
How to give us feedback on 2007 Office Beta 2
Please give us your feedback (suggestions, bugs, wishes) for Beta2. Here are a few ways: MSWish The Office Online Suggestion Page The Office Preview Site Community Forums Microsoft Product Support Services And my favorite way is this one : What's on your Read More...
Google is lanching a Web-based Spreadsheet
On Tuesday Google is set to launch a Web-based Spreadsheet program. There are a number of takes on this around the web. Comments from Digg.com point out that Excel has set a pretty high bar. And Google's new spreadsheet is focused on the consumer segment Read More...
eWeek Office SharePoint Server Beta 2 Review
"Judging by the beta version, Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be a welcome upgrade." From this review of Beta 2 from eWeek . Some highlights of the review: By default, all pages and content created in SharePoint can be delivered to mobile devices in Read More...
Office 2007: No Training Required (well, almost)
This Ars Technica article and comments is a great discussion of the new Office 2007 User Interface. I also found some pretty cool things in this article. Like a one page PDF that covers everything a user would want to know about using an Office application Read More...
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