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Onward and Upward
This is my last post on my Microsoft blog. I've had a great 4.5 years here at Microsoft. Met some amazing people, and played with some cool technology. Now I'm moving on to do my own thing. I'll be blogging about Office 2.0, Web 2.0, and all kinds of Read More...
A Balanced View of Open XML and ODF as XML File Formats
There has been a lot of controversy about these formats recently, but the reality is both will be around for a long time. I don't think it is an either - or proposition. Michael Scherotter at Mindjet Labs just posted about the ability for MindManager Read More...
Webcast on Word 2007 and MindManager
On Tuesday, January 30, Michael Scherotter from Mindjet and I will be giving a free technical webinar on how the Word 2007 Map Editor for Mindjet MindManager works. Here's the description: Join Don Campbell, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, and Michael Read More...
MindManager mind maps and OneNote 2007
The prolific Mindjet labs has produced another great integration with Office 2007, this time with OneNote 2007. This integration allows you to From MindManager, you can easily map out the Notebooks, Sections, and Pages, including hyperlinks to the notebooks, Read More...
Vista Keyboard Shortcuts
Killer list of Vista keyboard shortcuts here . My favorite - launch any application by hitting the WinKey and then start typing the name (e.g. Word) hit enter and it launches. This is absolutely awesome. I can't stand trying to find an application by Read More...
Office 2007 Tips and Tricks Web Site
I just noticed this; I guess I should have found this before but here it is: Office 2007 Tips and Tricks web site . They have live and on-demand webcasts, newsletter archives and a bunch more great stuff related to Office 2007. Oh, and there's also a Read More...
Congratulations Office 2.0 Conference!
Ismael Ghalimi produced the first Office 2.0 Conference at the beautiful St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco this week. I attended and spoke on a panel called " Transitioning to Office 2.0 " along with TJ Kang , Robert Sutor , Sridhar Vembu , and Danny Kolke Read More...
Introducing SlideShare: PowerPoint + YouTube
TechCrunch is covering an interesting new startup - SlideShare . It helps solve the problem of sharing PowerPoint presentations without having to e-mail slides around. Just publish your presentation to SlideShare and you can view it on the web, embed Read More...
Mindjet, OpenXML and the Ribbon UI
I'm a big MindManager fan. Mind maps help me organize my thoughts and plans - they just work the way I think. They engage both the right and left brain. I've been working with Michael Scherotter at Mindjet Labs, and he has come up with this outstanding Read More...
ClearContext for Office 2007!
I know a lot of people depend on ClearContext to help with their e-mail overload. And if you are like me you've been running Office 2007 Beta 2 for a while; which means no ClearContext. Until now. Deva and Brad from ClearContext stopped by to show me Read More...
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...
The New World of Work
Bill Gates Keynote at CEO Summit and Executive Email On May 19 th Bill gave the opening keynote at CEO Summit in Redmond. The webcast of his keynote is located at http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx . Bill will focus his talk on Read More...
OneNote Tips & Tricks
I've been using OneNote for over a year and it is one of my favorite applications. It easily saves me 2-3 hours a week. Recently I came across this OneNote Tips & Tricks video and I can't believe all the new tips I learned! If you're a OneNote user, Read More...
Gates CNet Interview Snippet
I like this snippet from his recent CNet News.com Interview "We, with our Office franchise, are committed to making workers far, far more productive than they are today. And believe me, we're not running out of ideas. The phone is inefficient today with Read More...
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