Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering
The official blog of the Microsoft Office product development group
Minimizing the Ribbon: Exposed
It’s Jon again from the Office User Experience team. I started at Microsoft a little over 2 years...
Author: Office Team Date: 12/03/2009
More About Background Removal in Office 2010
Hi, I’m Tucker Hatfield, a PM on the Office Graphics team, and a while back I posted an introduction...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/30/2009
Mobility in Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 provides you powerful new ways to deliver your best work - whether you’re at...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/19/2009
Open XML: One Year In
As you’ve probably heard, this is a big week for Microsoft’s Business Division. Earlier...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/19/2009
Business Deployment of the Office Web Apps
This post is for IT Professionals who may wish to host the Office Web Apps within your own...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/18/2009
Announcing Office 2010 Beta Availability
Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/16/2009
UX Design Tools & Techniques
Hello, I’m Jeffrey Dunn (User Experience Designer) with the Office Design Group (ODG). As Shawn...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/16/2009
Collaboration Without Compromise
Lots of the talk around Office documents these days seems to be about “Collaboration”....
Author: Office Team Date: 11/12/2009
Making the Ribbon Mine
Hello, my name is Melissa Kerr and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. Today...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/09/2009
Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century
Introducing Click-to-Run If you’re the type of person who likes to test-drive the latest and...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/06/2009
Data Driven Engineering: Tracking Usage to Make Decisions
Hello, my name is Peter and I work in the Office Trustworthy Computing (TWC) team. One of my team’s...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/03/2009
UI Extensibility in Office 2010
When introducing the Ribbon UI in Office 2007, we also introduced the RibbonX (Ribbon extensibility)...
Author: Office Team Date: 11/02/2009
UX Research Tools and Techniques
Hi, let us introduce ourselves. I’m Tim Weber (UX Researcher) and I’m Tricia Fejfar (UX Research...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/28/2009
Access Web Databases and The Access Show
Greetings Office Engineering readers—Clint here from the Access program management team. In...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/27/2009
An Overview of Project 2010
Introducing Project 2010 In the Project 2010 client release, we’ve concentrated on making it easier...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/22/2009
Introducing the Business Connectivity Services Team Blog
SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway and the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) team is getting...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/21/2009
The Magic of Background Removal
Hi, I’m Tucker Hatfield and I’m a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team. Pictures are great –...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/19/2009
Enabling password rules for Office 2010
Hi, my name is Alan Myrvold, and I am a security tester on the Office Trustworthy Computing Team...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/15/2009
Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010
There have been several improvements made in Excel 2010 to the function library and the Solver...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/12/2009
New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010
We’re thrilled about the growing number of people who are using Microsoft Office every day to get...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/07/2009
Designing With Customers in Mind
Office 2010 User Research & Design My name is Shawn Lipstein and I work in Microsoft’s Office...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/05/2009
Introducing Visio 2010
Visio 2010 brings many new features that make Visio more powerful and easier to use. This post gives...
Author: Office Team Date: 10/01/2009
Trusted Documents
Hi, my name is Maithili Dandige. I am a Program Manager at Microsoft working in the Office Security...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/28/2009
Disappearing Comments?
We’ve recently heard that over the past several weeks many of you have tried to post comments...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/24/2009
Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010
My name is Nitie and I work in the Office Reliability Team. My team's goal is to improve Office...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/22/2009
Office Web Apps Coming to Windows Live
Today is a great day for the Office 2010 team!. As Nick Simons posts on the Office Web Apps blog: We...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/17/2009
Live Preview Paste - Get the Results You Want Quickly
My name is Mirko Mandic and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. Today’s post...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/09/2009
Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010
The Excel team has made several improvements in the data visualization area for Excel 2010 and been...
Author: Office Team Date: 09/04/2009
Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 4 - The Help Tab)
Hi, my name is Justin S. Davis, and I am a Program Manager on the Office Product Lifecycle...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/31/2009
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
Business Contact Manager is a powerful contact and customer information management feature of...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/27/2009
Volume Activation
Hi, I’m Ted Way, a Program Manager on the Licensing team. Ever enter a 25-character key when...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/24/2009
New Media Features in PowerPoint 2010
The PowerPoint team has made several posts to their team blog about new media features coming in...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/20/2009
Evolving the Backstage View
For those of you who are dogfooding the Technical Preview build, thanks for all of the great...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/17/2009
Protected View in Office 2010
Hello, my name is Vikas and I work in the Office Trustworthy Computing security team. Today I will...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/13/2009
Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 3 – The Info tab)
Hi, my name is Marina and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. In previous...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/11/2009
Introducing PowerPoint 2010
With posts about the Sections slide organization feature and the ability to open Unlimited Windows,...
Author: Office Team Date: 08/07/2009
Introduction to Word 2010
On this blog we've already started discussing many of the new features (like the Microsoft Office...
Author: Office Team Date: 07/31/2009
Save Some Time -- Save Some Trees
I'm Jon Gordner, a PM on the User Experience team. As Clay wrote in his post, we created the...
Author: Office Team Date: 07/28/2009
Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets
Though not available for the public to try (yet), there has been quite a bit of recent buzz around...
Author: Office Team Date: 07/24/2009
Office 2010 Application Security
Hello, my name is Brad and I work on the Office security team; we focus on a couple of key areas:...
Author: reedshaff Date: 07/21/2009
Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 1 – Backstory)
Hi, I'm Clay Satterfield and I'm a Senior Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. Within...
Author: reedshaff Date: 07/15/2009
Tell us what you think about Office 2010 (Technical Preview)
Using Office 2010, have something you want to tell Office? Maybe you're having trouble finding...
Author: reedshaff Date: 07/14/2009
Welcome to the Office 2010 Engineering blog
This week, we announced the availability of the Office2010 Technical Preview for limited testing....
Author: reedshaff Date: 07/14/2009
Leaked build and Staying Safe
I wanted to post quickly to acknowledge the information that you have seen today around bits of...
Author: reedshaff Date: 05/18/2009
Confirm or Deny
First, thanks to everyone for the support and excitement. I promise there is a lot more on the way....
Author: reedshaff Date: 05/13/2009
Office 2010, Hello World
Today, at our annual TechEd event held in the US we are announcing that attendees will make up the...
Author: reedshaff Date: 05/11/2009
Kicking it off
This blog is being created by the Office team to help our IT professionals and enthusiasts get a...
Author: reedshaff Date: 05/11/2009