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Random catch up 22nd Feb

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:21 PM by dstrange
Skydrive comes out of beta Beta is over for http://skydrive.live.com and the new version increases the storage by 4Gb to 5Gb! I use this to put my presentations in on the right column on the blog - easy to imbed the link with the icon Interoperability Read More...
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Office quiz - answers

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:22 PM by dstrange
Ian has posted the answers to his Office quiz - some of them are not quite right IMHO :-) Read More...
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Random roundup of Office news 18th Jan 2008

Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 3:28 PM by dstrange
Office Quiz I'm liking Ian Moulster's quiz on Office 2007 .  How many can you get - even I struggled with some of them.  He's going to publish the answers next week.. Progress of Office Open XML We are busy preparing for the Ballot Resolution Read More...
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Random roundup post Christmas

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:07 PM by dstrange
Hope you had a great Christmas and happy New Year.  I certainly did not work during the break so here is a collection of stuff that I thought was interesting in my inbox when I got back to work today. "A Santa without Excel is like a scrawny Read More...
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Apparently, I'm a work of art

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 12:26 PM by dstrange
..which is better than a piece of work so I'll go with it.  I'd like to aspire to being a SmartArt but that may take time.  Still, today I am officially on the front page of the UK Office Online site as the official UK blog and to put my picture Read More...
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Hampshire police bring out the big gun

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 12:18 PM by dstrange
Good idea to advertise on the back of buses. Shame about the position of the exhaust pipe. Read More...
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Selling out

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:38 PM by dstrange
Remember that episode of the apprentice when they had to sell stuff on a shopping channel? Well it was my turn on Saturday night when I appeared on QVC 's Small Office Home Office show to sell Home and Student Edition at the very good price of £63.24. Read More...
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Building 5 opens

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:38 PM by dstrange
Today we finally opened the new building on the Microsoft Campus. You probably don't care but here are some pictures anyway. Sadly we are being moved back to building 2 which looks much older now by comparison. Read More...
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We're Microsoft, we know everything

Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:12 PM by dstrange
No we don't. But that doesn't stop people thinking we are the guys who control the Internet and can bend the IT time and space. Always a pleasure to chat with Jason earlier today as I waited to do my presentation on Office futures. It can be hard to present Read More...
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Ye Olde Office update

Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 3:31 PM by dstrange
ok update on this - I think I've got offers of XP Pro, 2000 Pro, 97 dev ed and pro, Office 95 (no box) and Office 4.3. So does anyone have a copy of Office 95 with the original box? (not just the CD jewel case). Does anyone have 4.2, 4.0 or 3.0?? I'm Read More...
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Ye Olde Office - new for old!

Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:31 PM by dstrange
I'm trying to complete my set of old versions of Office and I'm prepared to blatantly bribe you if you have one for my collection. If anyone fancies donating me an old copy (must include the CD box and preferably the cardboard box) I'll replace yours Read More...
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Facebook fatigue

Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 4:36 PM by dstrange
Another day, another social networking tool. Seems like every week there's another blimmin internet startup craze to get your head round. I remember the days when I would run off and start setting up my space/site/profile/friends list or whatever but Read More...
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10 years on.. gosh that went quickly

Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 5:37 PM by dstrange
This month is my ten year anniversary at Microsoft. You might think that shows a remarkable lack of creativity in career terms and it did strike me that my contratulations and well done note from Bill and Steve (it was a printout) might have read "well Read More...
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Iconic quiz - name that office app

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 7:04 PM by dstrange
I noticed this post today about the new office icons and its a good little quiz for a Monday.. can you name all the applications from the icons? How did you do.. honestly? If you did well on that, here is a harder one: can you name the 7 different Office Read More...
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OMG they killed Clippy!

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:47 PM by dstrange
As we keep saying, using the new Office is childs play. So what better way than creating a comic to explain it. Follow the adventures of Madeline as she discovers the magic ribbon. As we gear up for the consumer release of Windows and Office on Jan 30th Read More...
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