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FedEx QuickShip Revisited
17 September 09 07:14 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Jon Box has short post today talking about our partnership with FedEx a while back to help them build and launch their FedEx QuickShip service.  The formal launch was on stage with Bill Gates at the Office Developers Conference – exciting times!  Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, ODC2008, Office, OBA, FedEx

Democratizing DITA, DITA Exchange, and Danish Beer: 20 Questions with Steffen Frederiksen of Content Technologies
17 June 08 05:13 PM | john.mullinax | 4 Comments   

Content Technologies presented at the Content Management Strategies conference in Santa Clara, California, this past April on their DITA Exchange product.  Being a DITA XML authoring, collaboration, and publication management solution built on MOSS Read More...

Filed under: Office, .NET 3.5, OBA, OXML, DITA, Structured Content Authoring

Out Of The Box : Scared of the Office Ribbon?
29 April 08 05:35 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Jon Box has produced another interesting post -- this time on the Office Ribbon (aka the Fluent UI).  In particular, he points out a cool add-in from Office Labs that called "Search Commands" that will help you find your favorite commands Read More...

Filed under: Office, Fluent UI

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
02 April 08 09:38 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

In case you missed it, ISO has approved Open XML as a standard.  Brian Jones has more here .   What does this mean?  Well, among other things it means that the next version of Office ("Office 14" is the inspiring code name) Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, Office, OXML, ISO

The point of ISO standardization of Office file formats...
13 March 08 10:52 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Most of the debate around ISO standardization of Open Office XML file formats -- the native file format of Office 2007 -- is terribly acrimonious and FUD-filled.  For a different and interesting take on the debate, see here .  Why interesting?  Read More...

Filed under: Office, OXML, ISO

BillG Keynote at ODC -- see the video and screenshots from the FedEx demo
11 February 08 09:34 PM | john.mullinax | 16 Comments   

If you weren't at ODC live to see BillG's keynote, you can see the video here. [Note: updated link so it works again.] Also, FedEx showed a number of cool things during BillG's keynote at ODC today. The demo was really packed, so there wasn't a lot of Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, Billg, ODC2008, Office, OBA, FedEx

FedEx joins BillG on stage at ODC 2008 to announce FedEx QuickShip, and show off Office as a platform, S+S
11 February 08 06:33 PM | john.mullinax | 7 Comments   

(Update 1:41pm PST: See screenshots and video here !) I'm at the Office Developers Conference 2008 this week, and BillG is on stage doing Q&A, having just finished the keynote. A number of the highlights involved FedEx. In fact, FedEx SVP David Zanca Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, ODC2008, Office, OBA, FedEx

Miss your chance to see BillG keynote CES? See him keynote the Office Developers Conference 2008!
08 January 08 06:01 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

The Office Developers Conference (ODC) is coming up quick, starting 10-Feb-2008 in San Jose this year. Should be an awesome event! Office 2007 is by far the best Office yet to build solutions on, and now that it's got a year on the market under it's belt Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, Billg, ODC2008, Conference, Office