Bill Gates spoke about the next generation of Office products at the CEO Summit. If there is one thing I have learned about our Chief Software Architect since coming to work at Microsoft it is this: he does not waste words. I've never met him, but I have determined that much.

I liked this statement:

"It [next generation Office] will also give IT departments a more standardized, integrated architecture for efficiently managing the complete life cycle of documents and other content."

In other matters, some of the email threads here at Microsoft get very, very long. When I sort by subject, I have many messages about one issue. I have learned that, painful as it may be, it is best to start at the bottom of the thread and work my way back up (no fun). At times I want to consolidate the thread and try to bring it to a conclusion. But, I don't want to do a lot of cutting and pasting to compress the thread. That's what the Outlook Thread Compressor does. (PS: the download is one of our older ones that has not been scrubbed properly- it contains the Documents and Settings folder of the Microsoft employee who created it. Sorry, no personal files in there- but it is odd. We'll call it an easter egg.)

 Rock Thought for the Day: The film 'Godzilla' was mediocre at best, the soundtrack was a little more promising. The CD soundtrack contains a great song by Rage Against the Machine: No Shelter.

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