Office Zealot

Windows Vista is done (ok, ok, some 'small' patchwork is needed to iron out the wrinkles). Ready for one and a half year now and the next version is under development and code named ''Windows 7''.  Ehhrmm.... Excuse me, is -that- a code name? Let's investigate some more code names. What about Office vNext .... Ah! ''Office ...

  DevDays 2008 (and GeekNight 2008) is now behind us now. It turned out to be an excellent developer event, a -mini TechEd- as I heard someone say. The two days were covered with great sessions and great names. Steve Riley for one, with his famous talks on security (it needed an update for the -new- languages, but the basic ...

  Today DevDays part 1 and Geek Night took place. The DevDays event is really getting bigger over the years. I heard someone say in a video that it was a 'mini-TechEd' and I think he was right. The amount of sponsor stands is huge this year. Everywhere you look there are stands doing business and handing out swag. Sadly enough I don't have ...

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 ...

Tomorrow (May 22) and Friday (May 23) DevDays 2008 is hosted in the RAI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Two days of technical developer sessions and a Geek Night in between. The DevDays event is an event where you get two days packed with sessions and other presentations the latest news on Microsoft technologies and developments in that ...

  Crime labs are using advanced tools to solve the mysteries of crime. CSI New York, if we may believe television, is using Visual Basic for that purpose! And why not ... the villain in the end is arrested thanks to these great tools of modern society :-) Looking at a big screen showing a victim posting a blog, they noticed ...

Today I received the book that I bought at Amazon last week written by Mary Jo Foley on ''How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era''. The main title of the book is Microsoft 2.0. While I was buying the book I decided to buy two more books, VSTO and Office development related, from Amazons 'used & new' service. ...

First discussions are starting to hit the world about the just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 Beta. What happened is that instead of just fixing things in the Service Pack, Microsoft decided to add a whole lot of new features and whistle and bells into these SPs. So what happens if you develop applications and start ...

  It was originally planned for last friday, but to hold back the pressure for the support team to enjoy Whitsun and Mother's Day, it was rescheduled to today. The Service Pack 1 beta (remember its still the beta!) for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 is officially announced at Somasegar's Weblog You can find the downloads over ...