May 23, 2006 | blog
Well, I had written this post in Word 2007, but it didn’t publish to my blog… strange. Anyway, here was my post (at least written in Word ’07):
Yep, this post is going up from Word 2007 directly to my blog. If the blog-posting features of Word are enhanced a bit, I will definitely start using it for major post creation. The overall quality of Office 2007 so far is impressive. I’ve been testing Vista for awhile, but this was my first look at the Office 2007 betas. Neat stuff, though you can see some rough edges. Performance is ‘ok’ and should be improved as it approaches release. Currently, there are no extra features for blog-posting to WordPress, though I do expect that they will start to work on these soon. For example, categories are not supported directly from Word yet, and they claim that the post date is incorrect (I’ll check when I post). The last time I used an off-line tool to write and then publish a post, it would ‘break’ my page layout (theme), so I’m hoping that Word doesn’t do this; though I will risk it just to test the functionality. So far, I’m impressed with the current build, the new toolbars are extremely easy to understand and use right away – I think these are the single best improvement to the Office suite. More on the product later…
Ugh, in my haste I managed to forget to paste the Title in, so the post slug will be weird. Guess Word ’07 isn’t quite up to the task of blog posting yet. ‘Darn’.
May 15, 2006 | blog
So, along with the Windows CE 6.0 announcement, Microsoft announced the .NET Micro Framework. This article over at msmobile.com, gives a good overview of what the Micro Framework is.
May 15, 2006 | blog
Well its nice to see a little common sense prevail. Check out the news at TechWeb:
U.S. Dismisses Google Complaint, Says IE 7 Plays Fair
I’ve been following this silly attempt of Google’s for the past few weeks and it really disappointed me that they would sink to that level Google has brought some innovative products to market, and have injected a lot of excitement and attention to the ‘Web 2.0’ world. But their cry-baby routine about the defaul search settings in a browser that they don’t own simply sours my opinion of the cocmpany.
Hopefully they will not attempt anything more insulting, like litigation about this. There are so many other areas to focus on, and changing a default search setting in a browser is not going to make/break their search revenues.
Google does occasionally come across like the “big bad” Microsoft many people are concerned about. While I think MS has turned the corner on that behavior, I’m sure that some corners of the company may still harbor that “attack mode”, if you will.
At any rate, the current squabble is rediculous and is best settled by this US DOJ report.
May 9, 2006 | blog
TechWeb is reporting that Microsoft has released the first beta of Windows CE 6, the base OS for Pocket PC and Smartphones and many other embedded devices. The announcement was made at MEDC 2006 which is going on right now at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
Apr 30, 2006 | blog
Bink.nu has an article about a new update to Exchange that may disrupt axillary services such as BlackBerry, GoodLink or other systems that access accounts on Exhcange.
If you support such systems, please make sure to understand how this or any update effects you and your users.
Here is the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 912918
