May 2005 - Posts

When Bill Gates Speaks, People Listen
20 May 05 02:49 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Bill Gates is a great speaker. He may not be the most dynamic, but what he says has a lot of interesting insight into what is happening globally in technology. He recently spoke at the Ninth Annual Microsoft CEO Summit, Redmond, Washington This is well Read More...

Excel 2003 XML Toolkit - Get it and you too can be cool
17 May 05 02:40 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Attention all cool Excel users and programmers: Microsoft has released a new toolkit for working with XML in Excel, and it’s a life saver! You’ll discover that the folks at OfficeZealot were a part of the kit, however this isn’t a shameless Read More...

OZ Podcast #3 is online
07 May 05 09:28 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

We did it again! We have our third podcast up online and its an interview with Microsoft’s Joe Andreshak. Good news: we’ve fixed the sound problem. Second, we are starting to figure out how we should really do this, so I think even the quality Read More...

VSTO 2005 Beta 2 - Samples
04 May 05 08:01 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

Interesting post up at the VSTO 2005 Blog about gettting their samples to work. Even Microsoft has to deal with breakage that is a result of beta changes. The team notes: The Visual Studio Tools for Office Customer Solutions team works hard to create Read More...