Introducing Project 2010 In the Project 2010 client release, we’ve concentrated on making it easier to get started, easier to plan, and easier to report. This post gives a few quick highlights of Project 2010 and you can find more detailed posts on the Project team’s official blog. Easier to Get Started One of the…
Year: 2009
Introducing the Business Connectivity Services Team Blog
SharePoint Conference 2009 is underway and the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) team is getting ready to talk about the new capabilities in SharePoint 2010 that we’ve been working on. Taken from Brad Stevenson’s overview post: “BCS is an evolution of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) capabilities of SharePoint 2007 that enhances the capability of SharePoint…
The Magic of Background Removal
Hi, I’m Tucker Hatfield and I’m a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team. Pictures are great – worth 1,000 words they say – so it’s a great idea to use them to spice up a document or add some flair to a presentation. The problem is that they usually end up being self-contained rectangles…
Enabling password rules for Office 2010
Hi, my name is Alan Myrvold, and I am a security tester on the Office Trustworthy Computing Team (TWC). This post introduces the new password rules feature in Office 2010. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have been able to password protect documents for several versions by setting the “password to open”. What we felt could be…
Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010
There have been several improvements made in Excel 2010 to the function library and the Solver add-in. The function improvements have been made to address issues reported in academic papers as well as customer feedback. To quote the Excel team blog: “In Excel 2010, we made many improvements to Excel’s function library. Excel 2010 will…
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 things done at work, at home, at school and on the go. For instance: 500 million people worldwide use Microsoft Office From July, 2008 through June, 2009 – Office 2007 experienced 92% year over year growth in trials,…
Designing With Customers in Mind
Office 2010 User Research & Design My name is Shawn Lipstein and I work in Microsoft’s Office Design Group (ODG) as a User Experience Research Lead. I wanted to take the opportunity in today’s post to both introduce ODG and share a bit about what we do. I’ll also give you a peek at future…
Introducing Visio 2010
Visio 2010 brings many new features that make Visio more powerful and easier to use. This post gives a few quick highlights on Visio 2010, along with links to more detailed posts on the Visio team’s official blog. One of the first things users of Visio 2010 will notice is that menus and toolbars have…
Trusted Documents
Hi, my name is Maithili Dandige. I am a Program Manager at Microsoft working in the Office Security team. For this release, I’ve worked on several security and privacy-related features such as Office File Validation, Recommended Settings, improvements to Document Inspector, and Trusted Documents. I will be talking about all these in the upcoming months….
Disappearing Comments?
We’ve recently heard that over the past several weeks many of you have tried to post comments on this blog that never appeared. We’re working hard with support folks to track down why this is happening. In the meantime if you make a comment and it doesn’t appear within 24 hours, use the ‘e-mail’…