My name is Nitie and I work in the Office Reliability Team. My team’s goal is to improve Office reliability and your experience using our software. When thinking about how we can improve Office, we usually aim to make the product do exactly what you ask it to do, but in this case I want…
Year: 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 are making available Excel, Word and PowerPoint Web Apps for a select group of Windows Live users as part of the Office Web Apps Technical Preview. While the initial functionality is modest it will…
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 is about the work we are doing in Office 2010 to improve the most frequently used Office command – Paste. Despite its usefulness, Paste doesn’t always work like users expect it to. Their feedback and usage…
Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010
The Excel team has made several improvements in the data visualization area for Excel 2010 and been posting lots of details on the Excel Team Blog. First off, the Excel team added a visualization that you can use to enhance your spreadsheets, sparklines: “For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as…
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 Engineering Excellence (PLEX) team. Clay, Jon, and Marina from the Office User Experience team have already introduced you to the Microsoft Office Backstage View. The Backstage provides a first-class surface for a wealth of document information and…
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
Business Contact Manager is a powerful contact and customer information management feature of Outlook. The new version of Business Contact Manager (BCM) for Outlook 2010 is far more powerful and flexible than BCM for Outlook 2007. Manage your business contacts, track opportunities through the sales cycle, send personalized marketing campaigns, and organize your business projects….
Volume Activation
Hi, I’m Ted Way, a Program Manager on the Licensing team. Ever enter a 25-character key when you installed Office? That’s us. I’m looking forward to sharing how we’re helping administrators worry less about key management and seamlessly integrate Windows and Office activation in the enterprise. Starting in Office 2010, all volume editions of Office…
New Media Features in PowerPoint 2010
The PowerPoint team has made several posts to their team blog about new media features coming in Office 2010. Here is an excerpt from Allen Huang on the PowerPoint team: One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio…
Evolving the Backstage View
For those of you who are dogfooding the Technical Preview build, thanks for all of the great feedback you’ve sent us so far on the new Backstage view! We’ve been getting a lot of requests for a sneak peak at the design changes that we’ve been making to the Backstage view since the Technical Preview…
Protected View in Office 2010
Hello, my name is Vikas and I work in the Office Trustworthy Computing security team. Today I will be telling you more about a feature I have been working on called Protected View. Protected View is one of the new security defense-in-depth features added in Office 2010. If you have not seen Brad’s post yet…