Mark Bower
Random thoughts on Collaborative Apps, Social Software and SharePoint in the Enterprise
VSTO 2005 Second Edition RTW
Yesterday we announced the availability of VSTO 2005 Second Edition for Office 2007. This is now...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/07/2006
Office 2007 RTMs
Office 2007 reached RTM status at the end of last week. Business availability is set for November...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/06/2006
Free SharePoint Training
For a limited time these self-paced online learning courses are available free of charge: WSS v3...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/29/2006
Office Open XML format / ODF document conversion
Now this is an interesting development. Microsoft is funding and providing architectural guidance to...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/06/2006
Office Developer Conference Wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who came to my sessions at the UK Office Developer Conference last Thursday. It...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/26/2006
New Office Announcements at TechEd
The key announcement from ChrisCap's keynote at TechEd yesterday was LoBI - Line of Business...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/15/2006
WinFX is dead, and other TechEd Announcements
Always interesting to see what announcements come out of TechEd each year. Here are a few of the...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/13/2006
Developer Tools for 2007 Office System Beta 2
I have just started my first serious development on the Office and SharePoint 2007 platform. The...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/12/2006
Knowledge Network for SharePoint 2007
Announced yesterday at the CEO Summit, Knowledge Network is a free download for Office SharePoint...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/18/2006
Blog Publishing in Word 2007
Just announced – a new feature in Office Word 2007 Beta 2 to enable you to publish direct to your...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 05/12/2006
Farewell Office 12, it was nice knowing you
Hello Office 2007! Branding, packaging and US pricing for the next release of Office were all...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/16/2006
Office Live News
Some news on the Office Live hosted solutions offering Microsoft is putting into Beta later this...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 02/02/2006
OfficeLive
This is one to keep an eye on. www.officelive.com Aimed at the small business market this is the...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/13/2006
Office in Education
Following up on yesterdays post, I just want to add that there is also a set of cool customizations...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/12/2006
SharePoint in Education / Academia
I had mail from someone at a college yesterday asking about use of SharePoint in education sector....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 01/11/2006
Office 12 XML File Formats begin standardization process
BetaNews reports: International technology standards organization Ecma International voted Thursday...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/09/2005
Adding intellisense support for Office 2003 development
This download appeared on MSDN a couple of months back: Intellisense files for Visual Studio Tools...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/07/2005
OneNote Mobile
A week or so back Chris Pratley let the cat out of the bag on OneNote Mobile. This is a version of...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/06/2005
Highlights of 18 months of blogging
I've been blogging for 18 months now and as I was looking through the stats yesterday I thought I'd...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 12/05/2005
Office 12 Beta 1 is out
Overnight Office 12 Beta participants recieved notification that Beta 1 is available for download. I...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/17/2005
Office 12 for Windows Mobile?
Mary Jo Foley over at Microsoft Watch reports an interesting rumour. Now I have to say that I work...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 11/14/2005
Want to be a Microsoft Consultant?
We are looking for an experienced SharePoint/CMS consultant to come and join our team based out of...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 10/05/2005
Office 2003 SP2 Available for Download
Anytime now Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 should be available for download. Key enhancements...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/27/2005
Office 12 XML features available in all editions
Woohoo! This is great news. Many times I have spoken to ISVs and SIs wanting to build Office 2003...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/14/2005
Learning the Office 12 UI
I have seen a few posts over on channel9 and a other lists discussing the difficulty of learning a...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/14/2005
Office 12 Preview website updated
The Office 12 Preview website has now been updated with more information on yesterday's PDC...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/14/2005
Jensen Harris is blogging
Jensen is a PM on the Office 12 UX team. His blog will be focussed on the new UI for Office 12....
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/14/2005
Office 12 Screenshots - Part II
More Office 12 UI screenshots and info... This is Excel 12. Assuming you are familiar with the...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/13/2005
PDC Keynote Webcast
How have you been getting on with the PDC keynote webcast? I have been having real trouble getting a...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/13/2005
Office 12 Ribbon Screenshots
Get ready for a surprise… Today saw the launch of the brand spanking new user interface for Word,...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/13/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate Available for Download
Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate is now available for download from the MSDN subscriber download...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 09/13/2005
Now that's what I call customer service
[No Office/Dev content in this post, so look away now if you are not interested] On my way back from...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/19/2005
New Download: Redaction tool for Word 2003
Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information.The Microsoft...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/15/2005
Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?
In this morning's keynote session Steven Sinofsky told how BillG has personally taken the role of...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 08/03/2005
Registered and ready to go...TechReady1
Arrived in Seattle late last night after a marathon 21 hour journey. There are just too many people...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/31/2005
Adding a context menu to a SharePoint custom web part
Jessica and I were chatting on Tuesday about the possibility of reusing the SharePoint context menu...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/28/2005
Misha Shneerson is blogging
Misha is a dev working on VSTO and is the person largely responsible for the Actions Pane in VSTO...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/19/2005
Office 12: Sneak Peak at Developer Enhancements
The PDC session abstracts have been published, and although they are written in a fairly oblique way...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/15/2005
Host InfoPath in a Custom Application
PDC Session abstracts published this week provide good news for many ISVs and partners I have spoken...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/15/2005
TechEd 2005 Wrap-up
I went to TechEd with lots of good intentions about blogging while I was out there and for one...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/12/2005
Office 12: First Look at 'Forms Server' Technology
Last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Chris Capossela demonstrated a Forms Server...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/11/2005
You know you've enjoyed TechEd a little too much when...
...it gets to 5pm and you feel in need of a Heineken ;)
Author: Mark Bower Date: 07/10/2005
Tesla: Desktop Tagging and Collaboration
Korby Parnell writes that videos of the presentations from the 2nd annual Microsoft Social Computing...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/29/2005
Free software for TechEd Europe Attendees
Nice little perk for TechEd Europe attendees. Every attendee will recieve a full copy of Virtual...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/20/2005
Adventure Girl is Blogging
My team mate here in MCS, Jessica Gruber is finally blogging. Jessica is presenting at TechEd Europe...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/19/2005
My TechEd Europe Sessions
I have the dates for my TechEd sessions now. WCD351 Programming Word XML Solutions Wed 6 Jul...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/19/2005
Write Outlook addins with VSTO
If you were watching the TechEd keynote today you'd have seen BJ Holtgrewe and Steve Ballmer...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/06/2005
Office 12 Preview website available
The Office 12 Preview website has just gone live. Go see www.microsoft.com/office/preview. Currently...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/06/2005
Office Developer Announcements at TechEd USA
Today is day 1 for TechEd Orlando. I hear that their could be some new announcements for Office...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/05/2005
New XML File Formats for Office 12
As a number of bloggers have already picked up, yesterday we made a significant announcement about...
Author: Mark Bower Date: 06/02/2005