At every opportunity I complained to my contacts at Microsoft about the fact that restricting full Office 2003 XML support to Office 2003 Pro was a big mistake, and would not stimulate Office Pro sales, instead it would slow the adoption of the suite and the use of XML in...
It’s a simple idea, but I suspect that the VMware player is going to create disruptive ripples throughout the desktop computing industry, we thought we liked Linux Live Distro’s well imagine being able to download a myriad different pre-build VMware environments and run them on your normal PC, (memory allowing...
Despite the fact that there are many specialist collaboration products that are far superior to Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange/SharePoint – IBM and Microsoft continue to be the mainstream players and certainly dominate if you consider collaboration from the “buy a platform and build on top of it” standpoint. IBM’s...
My experiments with Smart Phones continue…. My daughter has an SPV C500 which I always liked but couldn’t use because it was locked to Orange and my business SIM is Vodafone and she loves it anyway so Dad’s not that mean! Anyway an upgrade opportunity presented itself and for £29.99...
I have just posted about how impressed I am by the OneNote team, and I especially like it when they share details of how the team uses the product themselves to push the boundaries of their processes. In this extract of a long post, Chris describes how they use the...
One of the things I like best about OneNote is that the development ad product management team explain (or at least summarise) the decision process they have gone through for major features and then explain how they expect these features and related features to be used. This not only benefits...
Brian Jones’ blog is fast becoming an essential read for anyone interesting in Office 12’s file formats and import and export formats. In this important post be describes the fact that Office 12 will be able to SAVE AS PDF, a very useful feature that is of course already present...
This web page gives a list of PDC Slide decks, Microsoft web sites and Blogs that talk about Windows Workflow Foundation, work checking out.
David Chappell is an authoritative commentator on middle-ware, in this post he explains why workflow is important and confirms that the addition of workflow services to Windows will also be important: Yet one application of workflow technology is by far the most important in a service-oriented world: providing logic that...
Windows Workflow Foundation sounds like it’s going to be important. One of the first things of note is that there will be a client and a server version. Here is the summary from the MSDN web site on the subject: Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools...