December 2005 - Posts
Jensen Harris spoke at the BayCHI monthly program at PARC on December 14 th . Rashmi Sinha blogged about the event and included a link to Jensen’s slides . The 70 slides provide a nice overview about the reasons that a new Office UI is necessary.
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Check out Marco Russo , Teo Lachev , and Chris Webb’s posts regarding the newly available Excel Add-in 1.5 for Analysis Services which has been updated to support AS2005. Ted, in particular, had some thoughts that triggered further thoughts in me.
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Any little bugs drive you nuts lately? I met up with one yesterday. It involved one tiny, seemingly harmless section of code that was comparing bytes in two byte arrays. I had just finished completing a series of changes due to a significant change in
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I read the Challenging Microsoft Office piece with the usual curiosity I have about what people think about MS Office alternatives. Anyway, the thing that jumped out at me about this story was a huge weakness/drawback that the author hinted at but didn’t
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I’ve always felt that MS Office, particularly Excel, has been underutilized and/or misunderstood as a business intelligence tool. Consequently, reading about all of the business intelligence features in Office 12 is music to my ears. While there
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Charles left some huge shoes to fill when he left the merry ol’ land of OZ for a position with Microsoft - so big it will probably take a few of us to fill ‘em. When I heard that Charles was signing on with MSFT, I immediately approached Chris
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