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Want to know more about Office 12?

You can find more on Office 12 from the following links, bear in mind that most people (including me) are under NDA so we can only talk about the stuff that’s already been talked about in public.  You can find most of my posts by searching for Office 12 – these...

Office 12 and Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal,  you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet.  The discussion got...

Microsoft collaboration still worries me

About 8 years ago I was a member of a group charged with selecting a new Email system, we looked at our requirements and were rapidly swayed by visions of the strategic role that Lotus Notes could play in our business unit.   Exchange and Outlook by contrast could only demonstrate...

The future of Email

In this article eWeek discusses the fact that Exchange 12 has several competitors for the Email market.  This is undeniably true however most enterprise Exchange users must inevitably be seeing the future of Email as an integrated part of a broader and integrated communication and collaboration solution.  In that context...

More Monad

Monad continues to inspire me,  I have written about it a few times and am really excited about the long term potential for automation within Windows.  However the casual observer might find it difficult to understand this potential,  in which case I recommend looking at way the Exchange team decided...

Intriguing blog entry by Ray Ozzie

Graham has recently pointed me to this post by Ray Ozzie,  Graham was interested primarily in the prospect of finally getting the problem of multiple calendars resolved,  but quite a few other things struck me about this post. Ray uses MSN spaces,  not some special site designed for Microsoft employees Ray...

Big news on Office 12

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...

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...

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...