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New official Outlook Team Blog is up!
13 June 07 01:22 PM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   
Hey hey - we've pooled our resources on the Outlook team and created a single Outlook Team Blog. We'll be having folks from the whole team posting and discussing tips, tricks, and resources about Outlook. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/Default.aspx Read More...
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Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta released!!
13 June 07 09:37 AM | michaelaffronti | 19 Comments   
This is very, very cool. We all love Hotmail and now you can connect it FOR FREE to Outlook. Check out the details from my fellow program manager Jared Brown: This week, Microsoft released a new beta of an add-in that allows people to access Windows Live Read More...
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Make Outlook even faster – as seen on TV!
17 April 07 08:39 AM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   
Hey folks Long time no blog; we’ve been heads down here at Outlook Headquarters as we start thinking what’s next after Outlook 2007. At the same time a portion of the team has been working feverishly to release the Outlook 2007 Performance Update, the Read More...
On Word & Outlook 2007...
19 January 07 11:14 AM | michaelaffronti | 6 Comments   
In past versions, Outlook actually used two rendering engines – IE’s for reading content, and Word for editing when you were composing messages. What this meant was that if you were replying or forwarding HTML emails, previous versions of Outlook would Read More...
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Outlook, RSS, & the user-agent string
10 October 06 03:46 PM | michaelaffronti | 6 Comments   
One of our dedicated MVP's, Patrick Schmid, reported in his post here that: If you provide an RSS feed for your blog, then there is a good chance that you use FeedBurner. FeedBurner is a great tool to get accurate statistics on how many subscribers an Read More...
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RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 – part 2
27 September 06 10:19 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
A few days ago I posted on how to use AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 to help manage the size impact of your RSS Feeds on your Exchange mailbox. One of the downsides to using AutoArchive is that there is no easy way to apply a defined set of parameters to Read More...
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RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007
22 September 06 08:53 AM | michaelaffronti | 9 Comments   
The volume of content on some RSS Feeds can be very high. When you add more RSS Feeds to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you might discover that the size of your Microsoft Exchange mailbox (mailbox: Location on a Microsoft Exchange server where your e-mail Read More...
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new blog from the Vista Shell team
20 September 06 12:27 PM | michaelaffronti | 7 Comments   
The Windows Shell Team has a new blog entitled " Shell Revealed ". From the site… Welcome to shell:revealed, the home of the Windows Client team. We're the folks that build the core user interface for Windows and we love every minute of it! shell:revealed Read More...
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Beta 2 TR requires a new version of WDS
19 September 06 04:07 PM | michaelaffronti | 8 Comments   
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0 is a native component of Vista, and is being shipped separately as a system component for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users. WDS is a system service that indexes file, email and other content in order to provide Read More...
RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR
18 September 06 10:01 AM | michaelaffronti | 8 Comments   
With the Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh now live on the web , I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the best way to get your RSS feeds up and running after you upgrade. The B2TR installation is actually a patch that installs on top of the original Read More...
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new Office Word team blog!
17 September 06 10:57 PM | michaelaffronti | 5 Comments   
Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/default.aspx . It's being written by Jonathan Bailor, a Program Manager on the Office Word team focusing on compatability of the new Word document format with previous releases. Jonathan will Read More...
IWCenter podast
17 September 06 10:37 PM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
About two weeks I did a great interview with Shawn Murrary for his podcast on the IWCenter . Shawn's site is a fantastic source of information on Office 2007 and how many of the new features across all of the products will change the way information worker Read More...
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Paul Thurrott review of Office B2TR
14 September 06 01:40 PM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   
Another great review by Paul Thurrott over on the Windows SuperSite: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/office2007_beta2_tr.asp . He's got some great information on Outlook and talks specifically about the new Instant Search functionality. Read More...
GridView
11 August 06 05:01 PM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   
Figure 11. The GridView Theme has Been Added to the App_Theme Folder Rename the GridView Theme to DataWebControls (right-click on the GridView folder in the App_Theme folder and choose Rename). Next, enter the following markup into the GridView.skin file: Read More...
Microsoft shows off improved search
08 August 06 09:28 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+shows+off+improved+search/2100-1032_3-6102892.html?tag=cd.top "Most search engines today use a somewhat two-dimensional approach, matching user queries with the content and link structure of Web pages to return a list of Read More...
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