votive, wix, vsip, and all things microsoft : Excel Services

This is one way for Google to make Microsoft look bad...

jrock — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:32:00 GMT

I thought this was a pretty amusing blog entry (http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/12/18/google-toolbar-slows-excel/). While I don't think this was intentional, it's a pretty interesting tactic: just install your plug-in to Excel to slow it down. :-)

All in good fun. I haven't used Google desktop search in a while, but I liked it when I had it, so don't read anything into this blog entry.

Excel Services is a "game changer"

jrock — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:22:00 GMT

Richard McAniff, one of our corporate vice presidents in Office, had some interesting stuff to say about Excel Services at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Here's an exerpt from the blog at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6149:

I later asked McAniff how he defined a “game changer.” “If you can you radically reduce cost, improve productivity and top line revenue, it’s a game changer.” He cited spreadsheets, search and eBay as examples... McAniff cited Excel Web Services as a game changer. “It satisfies end user and IT requirements. A mere mortal can publish a spreadsheet and it can go through a workflow process."

Sometimes when you're nose-down in your work you forget how cool the stuff you're working on is. It's nice to get a reminder every once in a while. :)

London Stock Exchange is Using Excel Services

jrock — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:15:00 GMT

Cool!

http://windowsfs.com/eNews/tabid/112/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2073/Default.aspx

Job Openings on My Team

jrock — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:47:00 GMT

My team (Excel Server) is currently hiring developers. It's a great team to work on and we do some cool stuff. Since we're still a fairly new team (we just shipped version 1.0 with Office Server System 2007), there's still lots and lots of new code to write and you'd have the ability to have a very impactful influence over the future of the product. Here's the "official" blurb:

Microsoft Office is looking for talented developers to work on cutting edge web-based technologies that integrate with Excel and Access. It’s a great opportunity to work on cool new features and build great products. You may have already heard about Excel Services that we shipped with Office 2007 (if not you can read more here http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101054761033.aspx and here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms519581.aspx) and we’re building on that story as well as pursuing some other new ideas.

If you know someone who might be interested in the position, please contact rmcgrath@microsoft.com. For more info, check out this job listing: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/results.aspx?FromCP=Y&Keywords=HA101054761033

If you're interested you can either contact me directly (jrock@microsoft.com) or the address above.

New Excel Services forum on MSDN

jrock — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:19:00 GMT

If you ever have any Excel Services questions, feel free to use the new forum on MSDN to post your questions. We'll try to be responsive in giving out answers.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1208&SiteID=1

It's nice to see the community responding well to Excel Services

jrock — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:38:00 GMT

Here's a nice article written about Excel Services:

http://www.aspnetpro.com/newsletterarticle/2006/08/asp200608ab_l/asp200608ab_l.asp

It's good to see your hard work pay off with good reviews. We'll see how the reviews are when it's "officially" released.

Excel Server finally goes public!!!

jrock — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:37:00 GMT

I can now reveal what project I am working on here in Office. Excel Server finally went public yesterday at PDC and from what I understand got applause from thousands of people in the audience. It's an awesome product. I'm excited to see the response to the upcoming demos on it.