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Joe Friend

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Office Labs goes live
I haven't posted here for a very long time and I can't honestly promise that I'm going to get any better. That said, I wanted to let everyone know about the new group that I'm working in at Microsoft. After Microsoft Word 2007 shipped, I moved on from Read More...
Email is now off
I'm now on a new project, so for the time being I'm turning off the ability to contact me via this blog. If you have a question about Word, then please proceed to the official Word team blog and contact them. Read More...
New Word Team Blog
We've set up a new Word team blog . If you are interested in all things Word, then this will be the place to hang out. Our PMs have some great posts and cool video demos waiting for you. Please check it out. And for those of you who are wondering if I'll Read More...
Help Microsoft Office 2007 ship a better product
The Microsoft Word team needs your help! As many of you know, we have changed the look of the default document in Microsoft Word 2007. Today we are interested in collecting insight and perceptions of the new default fonts in Word. Please take our survey, Read More...
Academic features: citation & bibliography tools
Jennifer Michelstein is a program manager on the Microsoft Office Word team who focuses on academic features. She came to Microsoft after receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. I joined the Word team immediately after graduating Read More...
Gnomedex day 2
Day 2 seems to be off to a better start than yesterday. Dave Winer talked a little about how users (I hate that term) design successful technology. Nothing astounding, but Dave was hopeful and encouraging. This was unlike Marc Canter and Steve Gillmor Read More...
Dave Dederer on stage
You know it is a strange conference when Dave Dederer , non-touring member of Presidents of the United States of America , is on stage just before Senator John Edwards . Dave is talking about how he's no longer in the music business but is now in the Read More...
Werner Vogels: Network Neutrality
Werner Vogels is the CTO for Amazon.com. This session is quite interesting. My favorite bit was the following statement (not word for word): There is no network neutrality now. The goal is network neutrality. Many use the term network neutrality when Read More...
Senator John Edwards
Chris introduced John Edwards by begging the audience to be nice. This could be interesting. The Senator says he came to listen, not to make a speech. So, Marc Canter is taking him up on it. Marc is very focused on cojones today. Marc described himself Read More...
Dave Dederer on stage
You know it is a strange conference when Dave Dederer , non-touring member of Presidents of the United States of America , is on stage just before Senator John Edwards . Dave is talking about how he's no longer in the music business but is now in the Read More...
Gnomedex 6.0
Attending Gnomedex for the second year in a row. Guess that really labels me as a geek. Read More...
Praise from Mr. Macintosh
A nice complement from Guy Kawasaki on the blog feature in Word 2007. I was a pretty hardcore Mac user from 1986 - 1994 and always thought that Guy did an amazing job evangelizing the Mac platform. "And speaking of Microsoft, I tried using Word in Office Read More...
Simple things like copy & paste
By Stuart J Stuple One of the things that I love about Word 2007 is that many existing features are becoming easier to find and easier to use. The thing I find most challenging about my job and the particular areas in which I work is that if features Read More...
XHTML output part 3
Zeyad has posted more information on the XHTML output from Word's new blog feature: Word XHTML - Mapping styles to semantics . Please read and comment. Thanks. Read More...
Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word
By Stuart J Stuple Mastering Word isn’t about understanding the architecture or the intent of the designers; it’s about finding the features and shortcuts that make your day-to-day job easier. Copy just the formatting Almost everyone knows how to copy Read More...
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