Office Zealot

Hot news from the press ... REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite. The 2007 ...

  At the ODC2008 a couple of funny videos did show on the big screens between the keynote speeches: Video: ODC2008 User Experience Person Video: ODC2008 VBA Macro Guy Video: ODC2008 Swag Guy Video: ODC2008 Architect Guy Video: ODC2008 Developer Guy

Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corp, opened the Office Developer Conference here in San Jose by first showing his 'last day at the office' video. After the video he talked about Office. I was again surprised about the level of detail in his talk and answering all kind of technical questions in the QA half ...

The Pre-Conference sessions at the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008 in San Jose are now behind us. For me there was not much new here for this first day as the sessions I had scheduled (a subject I knew nothing about so I was looking forward to that) were dropped and decided to 'refresh' things and moved over to the ...

  As I announced in my previous blog item Microsoft released the Office 2007 Service Packs (Both for client and server software) December 11 2007. If you go to the Microsoft Download site you can find all installers ...

The deployment machine at Microsoft is working full throttle. We already received the RTM version for Visual Studio 2008, Service Packs for the .NET frameworks and now Microsoft announced to have planned to deploy the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) next week on December 11th 2007. The service packs will be available for both the client as the ...

  You can now download fixes for the Excel bug that was in all the media a few weeks ago. The bug showed an incorrect answer in calculations, presenting 100,000 instead of 65,535. Microsoft published a couple of fixes for Excel en the Excel Services. In the end the fixes are planned to be added to Office SP1. The releasedate ...

Josh Greenbaum has posted an article highlighting the great opportunity Microsoft has with OBAs: ''OBAs are Outlook, Excel, or Word interfaces to back-office ERP functionality, and their ascendancy would make Office the user’s entrée into the ERP world instead of a proprietary Windows client or enterprise portal interface. Judging from the ...

  I had to do some development to move an old addin over from Office 2003 to Office 2007 and that is why I needed to edit the Ribbon XML in VSTO 2005 SE (don't forget to update). Well, doing that without the Intellisense support is a tough one to call. So a reminder to self because I keep forgetting how to get Ribbon XML Intellisense ...

By now it is blogged at various places and the announcement at TechEd 2007 USA hit the internet big. In my opinion the announcement was too important to skip in my own blog. I've seen the first previews for the Open XML Formats SDK in an Office 14 meeting a couple of months ago and that looked really promising and a real improvement for ...