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Don Campbell's Blog about Office 2007, Office Live, Web Office and Office 2.0 trends

Want a Quick Tour of Windows Vista?

Check out these short, high quality Screencasts by Long Zheng. He takes you through many of the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/13/2006

New Channel 9 Interview - OBA

We just posted a new Channel 9 Interview with Lewis Levin, Corporate VP of Office Business...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/12/2006

The real Web Spreadsheet: SocialText + WikiCalc?

Amidst all the buzz that Google’s Web Spreadsheet has been generating, Rod Boothby has an insightful...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/10/2006

How to give us feedback on 2007 Office Beta 2

Please give us your feedback (suggestions, bugs, wishes) for Beta2. Here are a few ways: MSWish The...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/07/2006

Google is lanching a Web-based Spreadsheet

On Tuesday Google is set to launch a Web-based Spreadsheet program. There are a number of takes on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2006

eWeek Office SharePoint Server Beta 2 Review

"Judging by the beta version, Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be a welcome upgrade." From this...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2006

Office 2007: No Training Required (well, almost)

This Ars Technica article and comments is a great discussion of the new Office 2007 User Interface....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/03/2006

My Colleague Doug Mahugh has a great write-up on how to get Office 2007 Beta 2 and related developer...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2006

Office 2007 Beta 2 Launch

Office 2007 Beta 2 just launched on the MSDN Office Developer Center. Check it out! Here you will...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/23/2006

Web Office

Rod Boothby’s paper on Web Office is a great vision piece on what the future of office productivity...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006

Blogging from Word 2007

Dare writes about Blogging from Word 2007. This is in Beta 2 which will be available externally in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2006

Word is the most popular Office application, according to Google Trends. Thanks for Steve Rubel's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/11/2006

Mix06 - All Sessions Are Now Online

All of the Mix06 Sessions are Online Now - with a great new UI for finding/accessing them. Michael...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/04/2006

Mind Map of Office 2007 Resources

This mind map is my attempt to bring together many of the great new resources surrounding the Office...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2006

Office 2007 Videos on Channel 9

Channel 9 has some nice video interviews with the Office product team members. They are a great way...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2006

The New World of Work

Bill Gates Keynote at CEO Summit and Executive Email On May 19th Bill gave the opening keynote at...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/24/2005

Some details on IE7...

Are beginning to leak. Microsoft Watch has some scoop... I hope they are right about including an...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/16/2005

OneNote Tips & Tricks

I've been using OneNote for over a year and it is one of my favorite applications. It easily saves...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/03/2005

Martin Taylor interviewed on Slashdot

Martin Taylor - Microsoft GM - did an interview at Slashdot recently. Tough crowd, and he did a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/24/2005

Bill Gates webcast from the Microsoft Office Developer Conference

You can watch the webcast here - go to https://www.interopmonth.com/home/, then chooseRecorded Bill...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2005

Tips and Tricks for increased Office Productivity

Discover how to get the most out of Microsoft Office System to save time and be more productive....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2005

First Office Developer Conference

Last week Microsoft held their first Office Developer conference in Redmond. I attended and found it...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2005

Gates CNet Interview Snippet

I like this snippet from his recent CNet News.com Interview "We, with our Office franchise, are...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2005

Experience the Microsoft Office System

Discover all that you can have, be, and do -- with the Microsoft Office System at this new website....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/29/2004

How do you measure productivity?

Most of us are struggling to deal with all the information we have to work with for our jobs and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/25/2004

Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service

Referring to the Microsoft Office System that shipped in October of last year, this article from...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/26/2004

Microsoft buys Lookout

I first read about Lookout in Omar's post, Outlook is a platform. I use it everyday to search my...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2004

Great Summary of SharePoint Portal Server v2 Workflow Options

Daniel McPherson has an excellent post in his blog about Approval Routing and Workflow options for...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004

Ray Ozzie has a vision for Information Workers

This eWeek interview with Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and more recently Groove Networks is...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/08/2004

What's new for the Tablet PC in XP SP2?

This video tour by Peter Loforte, GM of the Tablet PC team is well worth the 10-minutes:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/07/2004

Visual Studio Tools for Office

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2.0 is now in beta! Of course VSTO 1.0 has been out for some...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2004

Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) RTMs

The Information Bridge Framework (IBF) "provides a framework for connecting disparate sources of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2004

Nice new Office 2003 feature - Paste Options

Have you ever tried to copy text or images from one Office application to another and struggled with...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2004

I recently got my hands on a shiny new Motion M1400 Tablet PC

What a great machine. Check out the PC Magazine review. I've been using it for about two weeks now...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2004

Office Research Services

In Office 2003, Microsoft Office applications now include a Research task pane that allows users to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2004

Greetings!

Welcome to my WebLog. I joined Microsoft about 1 year ago and work in the Information Worker...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2004

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