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Strange thinking about Microsoft Office
Snow can’t stop Unified Comms
OMG apparently there are reports of frozen water falling FROM THE SKY!! and landing ON THE GROUND!!...
Date: 02/02/2009
How to stop blogging and how to start again
I started the OfficeRocker blog to share our news as we built up to the launch of Office 2007. ...
Date: 01/28/2009
The difference between Vista and Office
One of the challenges in retail is when customers buy a PC with Windows on it and think they also...
Date: 07/09/2008
Office Live Small Business has >1M subscribers
Following on from my Office Live demo at the NCVO event, Tim Kimber sent me this today which is...
Date: 07/03/2008
Officelive for charities
Last Tuesday I was running a workshop at the joint Microsoft and NCVO (National Council for...
Date: 06/19/2008
Microsoft Store launches in the UK
The Microsoft Store launches today. This is limited to the UK and Germany - not even...
Date: 06/02/2008
Microsoft support for ISO Open XML
seems to be a good deal of chatter recently about our support for the modified version of Open XML...
Date: 04/29/2008
Officelabs and the search tab for Office 2007
Every day on the blogsphere (I hate that word) I see one topic of discussion come up a lot. I...
Date: 04/28/2008
last few days for university students and staff to get Office Ultimate 2007 for £38.95
In case you missed the nearly unbelievable promotion we have running for uni students and teachers...
Date: 04/28/2008
Random catch up 22nd Feb
Skydrive comes out of beta Beta is over for https://skydrive.live.com and the new version increases...
Date: 02/22/2008
How to run Office 2007 on Windows XP
It is still worth pointing out to everyone that Office 2007 is designed to run on Windows XP sp2 and...
Date: 02/06/2008
making capitalism work for the poor
Good interview on cnn with Bill Gates about how he says we need to "tweak" capitalism to...
Date: 01/28/2008
3 new Office Live customer stories - training, the Algarve and premium fresh cocktails..
Three stories about small businesses using Office Live to get their businesses up and running. ...
Date: 01/22/2008
New Excel MVP and user group
Good to see the Excel User Group site that is run by the new MVP for Excel, Nick Hodge.
Date: 01/22/2008
Office quiz - answers
Ian has posted the answers to his Office quiz - some of them are not quite right IMHO :-)
Date: 01/22/2008
Random roundup of Office news 18th Jan 2008
Office Quiz I'm liking Ian Moulster's quiz on Office 2007. How many can you get - even I...
Date: 01/18/2008
OneNote power toys
nice little summary of OneNote powertoys that the guys in the OneNote testing team have written over...
Date: 01/18/2008
Burton group analyst house strongly comes out in support of Office Open XML
The Burton Group, a respected AR firm targeting the enterprise technologist, has published...
Date: 01/14/2008
Microsoft admits we were draconian and fixes it
Did you see the flurry of interest in this issue with Office 2003 sp3? Essentially sp3 blocks...
Date: 01/11/2008
Acquisition of FAST - what the analysts said
In a $1.2bn purchase, Microsoft is offering to acquire the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast...
Date: 01/10/2008
Can you all update your sections of the document and email it back to me?
Professional life teaches you to make adjustments to your normal mode of working at times. ...
Date: 01/10/2008
I found a better way to manage my email
goodness knows its about time. I get between 50 and 200 emails a day depending on what's going...
Date: 01/03/2008
Random roundup post Christmas
Hope you had a great Christmas and happy New Year. I certainly did not work during the break...
Date: 01/02/2008
Mail merge bug with Tablet PC
If like me you are doing your Christmas card labels at the moment and you use a tablet PC then watch...
Date: 12/19/2007
Great new blog - Gray matter
Some blogs you wait a long time for and here is one. Gray Knowlton, Group product manager in...
Date: 12/18/2007
sp1 update further clarification
further to my original post on sp1 and the update post, here is the official word from the microsoft...
Date: 12/14/2007
More detail about sp1
Responding to comments from yesterday and providing additional clarification. Windows update service...
Date: 12/12/2007
Office Live Workspace beta out today
Before you get too excited, this is only launching in the US however this is still an important...
Date: 12/10/2007
Xbox 360s for Open XML solutions
While I'm talking about developers, it looks like the UK developer team are giving away Xbox 360s to...
Date: 12/07/2007
Office Developer Conference 2008
Microsoft Office system is a platform. This is the conference (it's in California, 10th-13th...
Date: 12/07/2007
Microsoft, we like you in your Dad jumper, just get off the dance floor
We thought we'd reach out to students with the incredible offer that became...
Date: 12/05/2007
Edit history removes deniability excuse
Interesting piece in the register today. Wendy Alexander, the Scottish labour chief has to...
Date: 12/03/2007
Office 2007 file formats on Windows Mobile 6
At last, the Office mobile 6.1 update is here that lets us use the new file formats (open and edit...
Date: 11/30/2007
Microsoft Robotics Studio and PCs that get up from the desk
ZMP of Japan have released a robot built using Microsoft Robotics Studio. I liked this quote...
Date: 11/30/2007
The pretty and portable HP 2710p
My new laptop from HP has been my live machine now for a few days and I have to say I'm liking it a...
Date: 11/29/2007
Intelligencia for Office 2007 uses Open XML
I've spoken about IT Workplace before. If you are interested in seeing an Office Business...
Date: 11/26/2007
Working on more than one PC
Back from holiday now - hence the lack of blogging for a few weeks. I've been fantasising about...
Date: 11/26/2007
The Jelly effect and the top 10 most used PowerPoint commands
I really enjoyed having a beer with Andy Bounds last night. Andy is an inspirational communications...
Date: 11/02/2007
Outlook image download security - RSS and email
Jason Lawrence emailed me about this yesterday: In Outlook 2007, image security in emails is turned...
Date: 11/01/2007
Making a blog better
A lot has happened since I wrote my first post on OfficeRocker! two years ago. I started blogging in...
Date: 10/30/2007
WSS 3.0 will be a separate download
We announced today that we're pulling the WSS 3.0 bits out of Windows Server 2008 RC1 onward. No...
Date: 10/30/2007
Office tips gadget available
Quite a nice new gadget to help you get more from Office 2007.
Date: 10/29/2007
Hampshire police bring out the big gun
Good idea to advertise on the back of buses. Shame about the position of the exhaust pipe.
Date: 10/26/2007
Google don't use their own stuff - so why should you?
This amused me today from a friend of mine who noticed this. A job application on the Google website...
Date: 10/25/2007
RSS feeds in Outlook 2007
Good little article on how to augment the RSS feeds capability of Outlook 2007 using search folders...
Date: 10/24/2007