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Since we signed off on Office 2007 in October 2006, we've been hard at work on the next version,...
Date: 07/17/2009
Here's a categorized Table of Contents to help you discover posts you might find interesting or...
Date: 03/13/2008
I was reading through commentary from people who attended last week's MIX conference in Las Vegas....
Date: 03/12/2008
Just a short note to let you know that I'll be presenting a new session during MIX in Las Vegas on...
Date: 02/21/2008
It's been a while since I last wrote in this space. Many of you have been kind enough to send me...
Date: 04/23/2007
Today's Guest Writer: Eric Faller Eric is a Software Design Engineer on the Office User Experience...
Date: 12/08/2006
Today is the official business launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Exchange Server...
Date: 11/30/2006
Today I'm delighted to present a new guest writer to the blog: Eric Faller, Software Design Engineer...
Date: 11/27/2006
For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use...
Date: 11/21/2006
Now that we've released Office 2007 to manufacturing, developers can get started modifying their...
Date: 11/13/2006
I've published over 200 posts on this blog since I started it last September. With all of those...
Date: 11/10/2006
I'm proud to announce that last Friday, November 3 at approximately 2:30 PM, we signed off on build...
Date: 11/06/2006
This morning, I posted the final customUI XML schema for creating Office 2007 RibbonX-based...
Date: 10/26/2006
I know in my last post I said that I'd be gone for a few days… and now those few days have stretched...
Date: 10/24/2006
You may have noticed that I haven't posted for the last week. I wish I could say that I've been on a...
Date: 09/27/2006
Today's Guest Writer: Savraj DhanjalSavraj is a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team...
Date: 09/15/2006
This morning, the Beta 2 Technical Refresh of the 2007 Microsoft Office system became available for...
Date: 09/14/2006
This morning, we announced that starting tomorrow (Thursday, Septemeber 14) you'll be able to...
Date: 09/13/2006
One of the new features in the upcoming Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh that I haven't written...
Date: 09/12/2006
One of our goals for the Office 2007 user interface was to make it easier to create beautiful...
Date: 09/05/2006
It was with a bit of surprise that I read a flurry of stories on Friday with breathless headlines...
Date: 08/28/2006
One of the most well-understood and salient principles underlying the ergonomics of graphical user...
Date: 08/22/2006
As you probably know by now, each of the Office 2007 programs (both classic UI and new UI) have the...
Date: 08/10/2006
Some of you have noted that recently I've been writing a little less frequently than in the months...
Date: 08/08/2006
I've written in the past about the approach we took to organizing options in Office 2007, including...
Date: 08/04/2006
A few months ago, I made an attempt to give you a sense of the kinds of changes to the user...
Date: 08/01/2006
It's the age-old question of presenters everywhere: "Which PowerPoint slide design should I use?" I...
Date: 07/28/2006
One of the projects our design team has been working on for the last year or so has been the...
Date: 07/26/2006
Last week, I wrote about some of the work we've done to make the minimized Ribbon work well with the...
Date: 07/24/2006
One of the many areas in which we've spent time since Beta 2 has been making working with the...
Date: 07/20/2006
On Monday, I wrote a little post with a screenshot of the third Office 2007 color scheme, Silver. I...
Date: 07/19/2006
I couple of months ago I mentioned that we were working on a third color scheme for Office 2007, as...
Date: 07/17/2006
I know I seldom do two posts in a day, but in addition to Rich's guest article, I wanted to point to...
Date: 07/13/2006
Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User...
Date: 07/13/2006
Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User...
Date: 07/11/2006
A couple of months ago I was interviewed by Shawn Murray, who is putting together a set of...
Date: 07/07/2006
Today's Guest Writer: Rich Grutzmacher Rich Grutzmacher is a Program Manager on the Office User...
Date: 07/06/2006
One topic that has come up frequently in our private beta newsgroups as well as here in blog...
Date: 06/27/2006
Over the last month, you've sent us thousands and thousands of comments about Office 2007 Beta 2...
Date: 06/23/2006
Yesterday morning we were sitting in the office of one of our usability researchers watching some...
Date: 06/21/2006
Yesterday I talked about the command well which exposes all of the features in the Office 2007...
Date: 06/20/2006
There have always been certain commands in Office which aren't available as part of the default user...
Date: 06/19/2006
One last thought about spell checking. I mentioned a few days ago how much I depend on red-squiggle...
Date: 06/16/2006
Yesterday, I mentioned the new contextual spelling feature that is part of Office 2007. Writing the...
Date: 06/14/2006
One of the most amazingly useful features designed into Office is the red-squiggle underlined spell...
Date: 06/13/2006