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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:04 AM

Open XML Converters for Mac Office

There’s been a bit of flak about the Office Open XML file format converters for Mac Office. Sheridan posted an update on MacMojo, and Schwieb weighed in regarding some of the comments that people have made. There’s quite a bit of speculation gong on,
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:30 AM

Dave Luebbert on Channel 9

What was the Ray Gram Memorial Feature that shipped in Apple's System 7? Who invented the combo box (drop-down edit control)? What was the real downfall of WordPerfect? What was the project code name for Mac Word 5.0, and why? You'll find answers to these
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Monday, October 03, 2005 10:23 AM

Hitting the Office Links

No, I'm not talking about a swing around the wing . Over the past several weeks, a handful of Office 12 related blogs have started up. While these are dedicated to the work that's happening in Windows Office, I expect quite a few people who read my blog
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:55 PM

Abriendo Puertas con XML

When Win Office 2003 shipped, there was a great deal of debate as to the “openness” of Microsoft’s use of XML. The debate resurfaced with the announcement of the new Office 12 XML-based file formats, and it’s been further brought to the fore in recent
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Monday, June 13, 2005 10:36 PM

Big Dave (Which One?)

Dave Winer provided this link to an article posted by Dave Luebbert. Dave Luebbert was the development manager for Mac Word 5.0, and was my first boss at Microsoft. Dave (L) is an incredible guy. He's a musician, and a very big fan of Jazz. He's been
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:04 AM

The Beginning of the Endian

So the rumors have been true. Apple is moving to Intel processors, which, in some ways, makes sense. At least it does from Apple's point of view. The Kool-Aid has never really affected their ability to figure out what's right for Apple regardless of the
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:11 PM

Microsoft Office Open XML Formats

Scoble dropped the hint , and Mary Jo Foley spilled the beans . C|New has also jumped the gun on this . There's a piece on Channel 9 over here , and it won't be long before the official press release is here . (I waited more than 10 minutes past the deadline,
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:27 AM

Marketing are Bad

Todd Bishop’s story in yesterday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Professor Sandeep Krishnamurthy’s fisking of Word’s grammar checker is making the rounds. It even got a blurb on NPR’s Morning Edition today. Word’s grammar checker is a by-product of
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:43 AM

Shared Note-taking

Chris Pratley talks about OneNote Shared Sessions . A while back, I wrote about the differences between OneNote and Notebook Layout view in Word . Well, this is one of those areas where OneNote shines, and Word doesn't. Unfortunately, Word's design doesn't
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:38 PM

Who is Responsible

We’ve kept the beta e-mail list for Word 2004 open so that we can stay in touch with any lingering issues that people have been running into. This was particularly helpful when working on SP1. Last week, a message arrived under the subject “Who is Responsible!”
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:08 AM

The Case of the Missing Tab

One of the things we noticed when we first started doing some rigorous usability studies with Word is the way people used the tab key. It’s a holdover from typewriter days: you want to indent a line of text, so you hit the tab key a few times. It’s one
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Friday, December 24, 2004 10:27 AM

Value Proposition(s) and Market Success

Value Proposition(s) and Market Success Based on the comments to my last post, I need to apologize. Having worked at Microsoft as long as I have, I’ve acquired some verbal habits that have meaning inside these halls, yet fail to adequately convey the
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Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:30 AM

You Don't Need Word

You Don’t Need Word Back in late August, my article on the Anatomy of a Software Bug got slashdotted . That prompted John Mitchell to post this missive over on artima.com. John and I had a brief exchange back then, but that was early September—right about
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Friday, December 03, 2004 3:39 AM

Ode to Word

Ode to Word One of my coworkers received this from a friend. The author is the friend’s daughter. I thought you’d all enjoy this, so I got permission to post it. Enjoy, Rick Ode to Word By Rebecca Smith My word! It's Word! Wow, Look at that shiny blue
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:31 AM

Let Word Do It

Following up to my last post on outlining, Marc Hedlund, one of the co-authors of Peer-to-Peer (O’Reilly), wrote about Word being too smart . Marc’s thesis is summed up in the last paragraph, where he says, “What the Word team lacks, in my view, is an
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