Introductions

What about Publisher? A few blogs have started wondering when we were going to speak up on our plans. That’s my job (among other hats I wear) and it’s time to start. We do have an exciting Publisher release in the pipeline as part of Office “12".

I am the lead program manager for Microsoft Publisher on the Microsoft Office Authoring team. This means my work neighbourhood is a veritable bloggers' row. Brian Jones, Chris Pratley, Owen Braun, Cyndy Wessling and Joe Friend all sit in adjacent offices. The peer pressure to blog has become overwhelming. More importantly, we are at the stage with Office “12” (yes, we are still referring to it by the codename) where I can start telling you about what we are doing in areas I work on and bring you into the feedback loop.

My intent in this blog is to cover the range of topics in Office that are important to me, including Publisher, small business marketing communications, Save as PDF and any other topics that come up where I feel I know enough to be dangerous.

This blog is all about your feedback. What excites or concerns you about what we are delivering in my parts of Office “12”? What are the new scenarios that you expect this new release to open up for you? What are the burning questions (on-topic, please) that you would like to have me answer?

My own first burning question for this blog to answer: are there Publisher users out there with time to read blogs? (That’s an area of customer research where we don’t have much data.) If so, I am looking forward to this conversation.