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Probably my last post on blog.msdn.com... please join me on my new blog at http://www.iprinciples.com/blogs/richard
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They say all good things must come to an en d and tomorrow marks my last day in Microsoft ! When I had my Microsoft interview way back in 1998 I was asked how long I thought I’d be with the company. I remember saying that I expected it to be 3-4 years
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We've kicked off the Re-Mix conference in London today so I'm busy prepping for our session on 3D Internet development... it will work (honest!). I have a session which walks through the British Library project from the initial concept through the 3D
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Remember Windows 3.11? Office 3.0? Still got any floppies or DAT tapes gathering dust on your bookshelf? Over the last few months I've been in a bit of a time warp... one minute Silverlight... then the next in DOS 6 and considering the implications of
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We have a new Architect Forum coming up on the 15th May which is going to focus on Software plus Services. We have a great agenda and speaker list lined up so why not come and join us? The event and registration link is http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032335942&Culture=en-G
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I think I'm pretty fortunate in my job as I get to meet loads of smart people who are brave and smart (or crazy) enough to dive into uncharted technology waters and try out things with our technology platform that beggar belief. Alex and Mark at Shaxam
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One of the great things about working at Microsoft is the smart folks who you work with on a daily basis... honest! The good news is that through our new group blog you'll be able to get to know the other guys in my team and the sort of antics we're getting
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We're running a developer-oriented event which drills into Open XML at the end of the month. Just pop here if you fancy it. In this 2 day workshop you will learn the structure and semantics of the new Office Open XML file format. You will spend time working
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Following on from my earlier rant... on the 2nd April Ecma announced ... “Ecma International welcomes the continuation of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 process for Ecma-376: Office Open XML File Formats with the 5-month ballot by the national members of ISO and
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Back in November 2005 I blogged about the Open XML document format being submitted to Ecma and was raving about the likes of Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) who have pushed this so hard. Well, the Ecma standardisation process did its business and we ended
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I've mentioned Expression Blend in a few posts as one of the core tools for WPF design. The release candidate is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-blend/try.mspx so why not give it a try... our starter
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On the run up to the Vista launch I had been speaking with Paul Douglas and Richard Keith at Future Publishing (just down the road from me in Bath ) about taking some of their content and hosting it in the cool WPF Turning the Pages application. I think
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For the last few months I’ve been working with the guys at London Underground and Edenbrook . Having seen the impressive use they’ve made of Office 2003 and Sharepoint in particular, we started talking about the possibilities with the Office 2007 System
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I figured if I'm going to take this blog thing seriously I'd better find a tool which suits the way I work because the web based publishing UI is not for me... I reckon I need something that works offline, has easy publishing of pictures and is pretty
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Eric and I are now full steam ahead in preparation for our workshop on Monday (although Sunday night is looking like "one of those nights!" already). Anyway, we were chatting over our experiences earlier and I think we hit on a little nugget... the question
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