March 2006 - Posts

Office 2007 Timeline announced this past Friday
27 March 06 08:47 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Here is a link to the press release on the Office 2007 Timeline and blurb: Product on track for October RTM. REDMOND, Wash. — March 24, 2006 — Yesterday, Microsoft Corp. confirmed the timeline for release and availability of its 2007 Microsoft ® Office Read More...

Office 2007 UI announced today
09 March 06 11:04 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Check out the original post on Jensen Harris' Blog . You can hit this site to sample the goodness, but Jensen has better images in his post above: Office 2007 UI Preview Site I'm a fan of the Ribbon and think from an ISV perspective this is where you'll Read More...

Congrats to the WSA Industry Achievement winners
09 March 06 10:26 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Last night 2 of my local ISVs were nominated as finalists and one won two awards at the Annual WSA Achievement Awards dinner : Tableau Software won: Most Promising New Company Most Promising New Technology Attenex was nominated as a finalist for: Business Read More...

Event Announcement: IE7 Chat tomorrow
08 March 06 01:30 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So tomorrow at 10AM PST will be the March IE7 Chat. I'll still be hosting a SQL Server Application Compatibility lab tomorrow, but I'll read through the transcript afterwards. Join if you have the bandwidth and let your voice be heard. Here is the IE7 Read More...

Adding to the Seth Godin dogpile
06 March 06 02:09 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So you post a link to a presentation you've given to one of the fastest moving technology companies and you don't expect it to be an overnight hit? Oh, and lets add to the fact you are Seth "The Markeing God" Godin. I bets the download numbers over the Read More...

Weekend roll-up
06 March 06 11:16 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I know its monday, but I wanted to throw out a few things together in a single post. First, I wanted to thank everyone for attending the Office and Vista Touchdown briefing this last week. We had a large crowd and Bill Lodin did a great job! In fact, Read More...

My ride
01 March 06 03:28 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I wish this was my daily driver, but it rains a bit too much here in the NorthWest. And I've been waiting for a good time to post a pic of my bike. Yet today was an exceptionally nice Spring day. Since I ventured out on my duc to visit a local ISV Read More...