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SPV C550, yet another smartphone

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...

OneNote shared notebook

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...

OneNote team continues to explain

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...

PDF support in Office 12

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...

David Chappell explains why – Workflow matters

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

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...

Listening to your documents

One of my friends (Simon) who doesn’t have a blog sent me this article which I though would be a really great post on using text to speech software…. For those of us who spend more than half an hour driving to work each day you may have sometimes wondered...

How quickly will Microsoft deploy Office 12 client?

Wondering whether to deploy office 12 beta to some of your users,  this is Microsoft’s current plan: Dogfood 4,  the version being demonstrated to partners at the beginning of August – 100 people in Microsoft Dogfood 4 plus patch, the version I think will be available at the time of...