Office Zealot

  Today I received the message that several of the Windows products are about to become unsupported. So just to inform you and make sure you are in a supported scenario I'd like to share the information with you. Get the service packs you need and make sure you are covered! Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server are ...

  In a few hours I'll be on my way to Redmond. This week it's the MVP Summit 2010 where over 1300 MVP's from all over the world will get over there and meet each other and get some updates on technology. An opportunity to meet members of the Program Group and discuss some hot issues. I didn't get any sleep tonight as I needed the time ...

Just while I'm in Redmond to discuss the next version of Office, Office 2010, the second service pack for Office 2007 came available for download. So if you think you found some bugs in Office 2007 SP1 or earlier, install Service Pack 2 to check if your issues have gone away. The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) From my own ...

Mix is like PDC, TechEd and similar events one of the soapbox areas where big vendors make big announcements. There has been already a few announcements but most of them were announcements of Betas, CTPs, SDKs etc. This is another announcement, however one of going Gold: Internet Explorer 8 will be available at noon EDT on March 19 here: ...

  According to information on Foleys blog Steve Ballmer said during his annual Strategic Update briefing with Wall Street analysts that Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009. One of the reason to this would be the option to release it at the same time as SharePoint Server 14. So what is the impact of all of this? Let’s look ahead and see ...

  Right now there is a big buzz in testers-world. If you do some searching on the web and you can find several examples of it. Testers are all awaiting interim builds at a higher rate but are not provided with any. Not for Windows 7, Office 14 and Dev14's (Visual Studio) CTP expired somewhere early this year. Ok, ok for Windows 7 there ...

  A couple of weeks ago I finally finished reading Mary Jo Foleys book on Microsoft (Is there anything else she is working on besides Microsoft at all?) with the main title “Microsoft 2.0” celebrating the season holidays. Looking back at my initial posting at the time that I just bought the book I noticed that the blog item was posted ...

Microsoft is making some great progress with its SQL Server 2008 Data Services initiative. The latest addition to the line-up of data services available online is data mining! You can access the beta version of the data mining tools in the cloud by visiting http://sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/. At this website, you have 2 options for trying out ...

  Starting December 1st I changed my search defaults from Google to Live Search. “Are you mad?!!?!?!” I hear some of you calling out … Well yes and no. To start with it's only for a week, unless I think it is a real improvement. Early this year Steve Ballmer did one of the Keynotes on the 2008 MVP Summit and was checking what part of the ...