Joe Friend
Designing software and loving it.
Office Labs goes live
I haven't posted here for a very long time and I can't honestly promise that I'm going to get any...
Author: Jfriend Date: 04/28/2008
Email is now off
I'm now on a new project, so for the time being I'm turning off the ability to contact me via this...
Author: Jfriend Date: 12/07/2006
Help Microsoft Office 2007 ship a better product
The Microsoft Word team needs your help! As many of you know, we have changed the look of the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 08/16/2006
Academic features: citation & bibliography tools
Jennifer Michelstein is a program manager on the Microsoft Office Word team who focuses on academic...
Author: Jfriend Date: 07/13/2006
Werner Vogels: Network Neutrality
Werner Vogels is the CTO for Amazon.com. This session is quite interesting. My favorite bit was the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/30/2006
Gnomedex 6.0
Attending Gnomedex for the second year in a row. Guess that really labels me as a geek.
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/30/2006
Praise from Mr. Macintosh
A nice complement from Guy Kawasaki on the blog feature in Word 2007. I was a pretty hardcore Mac...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/09/2006
Simple things like copy & paste
By Stuart J Stuple One of the things that I love about Word 2007 is that many existing features are...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/08/2006
XHTML output part 3
Zeyad has posted more information on the XHTML output from Word's new blog feature: Word XHTML -...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/08/2006
Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word
By Stuart J Stuple Mastering Word isn’t about understanding the architecture or the intent of the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/05/2006
Blog post XHTML output part 2
Zeyad has more details on the XHTML output of the blog feature. His latest post focuses on...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/04/2006
Short hiatus is over
I didn't mean to disappear. Last weekend's long break for Memorial Day broke my stride. I had a...
Author: Jfriend Date: 06/04/2006
Over 500,000 Served
No wonder our servers were having trouble keeping up with capacity. As of this afternoon we've seen...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/26/2006
Feedback on Office 2007
Have you downloaded Office 2007 yet? Once you installed Office 2007 don't forget that we'd love to...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/25/2006
Working on problems
Some of you have encountered problems successfully downloading, registering or installing Beta 2. As...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/24/2006
HTML Output Spec
As I promised, we are posting details of the HTML output spec for the blog feature and are...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/24/2006
Office 2007 Beta 2 now available
Beta 2 is officially released and is available for download right now. Drop what you're doing and...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/23/2006
The new document look
The Word team is lucky to have a whole host of very talented people working on it. This is the first...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/22/2006
Is Your PC Vista Ready?
I've been running Vista on my work desktop PC for several weeks now. I've got to admit that I'm...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/19/2006
More Word blog authoring tidbits
In general, I prefer to sit back and watch the comments come in and respond to them in future blog...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/18/2006
Word Blog HTML Quality
Every post you make as a blogger can be a huge learning experience. In Friday's post on the new Word...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/16/2006
Sign up for Beta 2 now
If you haven't already, now is a great time to sign up for Beta 2 of Office 2007. Just go to the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/12/2006
Word 2007: sneak peak
I returned to Microsoft (after a 7 year hiatus) in late 2003 just as the Office 2007 effort was...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/11/2006
How do they find the time?
I'm amazed by some bloggers ability to write tons of blog posts. Jensen, Dave, Brian, and all the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 05/10/2006
What if tomorrow never came?
Okay, I suck as a blogger. No way to deny it. My last post (from 11/27/05) ended with "More...
Author: Jfriend Date: 02/16/2006
What more can you add to a Microsoft Word?
This is a common question for all of the Microsoft Office applications, but particularly so for...
Author: Jfriend Date: 11/27/2005
New Office "12" file format news
If you haven’t made your way to Brian Jones’ blog, do so immediately. He’s announced some very...
Author: Jfriend Date: 11/22/2005
Beta 1 Ships...
Okay, okay. Office 12 beta 1 shipped. I’ve procrastinated as long as possible, but now I’ve really...
Author: Jfriend Date: 11/21/2005
I'm gonna post something, really!
Now that Microsoft Watch has linked to my blog I really must get things going. Shortly after the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 10/31/2005
Who am I
It's time to get this blog jump started. Best laid plans of mice and men and all. But first a little...
Author: Jfriend Date: 09/29/2005
Subscribe to Office 12 Preview News
The Office 12 Preview Site now has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to so that you can get the...
Author: Jfriend Date: 09/13/2005
Office 12 goes public
Well, the news is out. If you watched the PDC keynote this morning you know that Office 12 is a huge...
Author: Jfriend Date: 09/13/2005
Hello World
Not much can be said now, but in just a couple weeks all sorts of great news will be coming out...
Author: Jfriend Date: 09/02/2005