Hi, my name is Marina and I am a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team. In previous blog posts, you’ve read about the new Backstage view and how it has helped to improve the Printing experience. Now I’d like to tell you about the Info tab – the default tab you see when…
Year: 2009
Introducing PowerPoint 2010
With posts about the Sections slide organization feature and the ability to open Unlimited Windows, the PowerPoint team has started to unveil many of the great new features included in PowerPoint 2010. As mentioned in their Introduction, many of your presentations will look better simply because you’re presenting with the new version of the software. …
Office 2010 Global Experience
Hi, my name is Javier Larrinaga and I run the Program Management for the Global Experience Platform Team (GXP). The purpose of this post is to introduce you to our team and the role we play within the Microsoft Office organization. The current reality of collaboration pushes language, cultural and local requirements to new levels….
Introduction to Word 2010
On this blog we’ve already started discussing many of the new features (like the Microsoft Office Backstage) which span across all of the Office 2010 applications. In addition to many continuing posts about these features, we’ll also frequently highlight other product features or team blog posts you might be interested in. We’re really excited about…
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 Backstage View for the opportunity to take Office’s OUT features – those that you use to do things to the whole file (rather than the content within it) – and make them a little more WYSIWYG…
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 the Office Web Apps we will be shipping with Office 2010 (here links to articles from PCWorld and from ZDNet). Mike Morton (Group Program Manager of the Web Apps team) just wrote a great post on the Office Web Apps…
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: building security features that improve the Office product line and driving the security engineering process across the division as part of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). I would like to start with a high-level…
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 the first few hours or so of using the Office 2010 Technical Preview, it’s pretty likely that you’ll eventually need to “Save As” or “Print” or do something else with your file. When you finally do click on…
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 something in the UI or have a specific suggestion on how we can improve a feature. Or, maybe there’s something you love and you want to make sure we know about it so that we keep it in the product….
Welcome to the Office 2010 Engineering blog
This week, we announced the availability of the Office2010 Technical Preview for limited testing. Over the coming months, we hope to learn a lot from our Technical Preview customers about Office2010 and at the same time, we will use this blog to highlight some of the new capabilities that we have added to…