Summary: Earlier this year, I said that Office 2007 is the bravest upgrade ever, and the reason was simple: The audacity of introducing a radical new user in...

It’s an all-Office day today. The Globe and Mail embraces the bad pun with “ Stressed? Busy? Excel-erate your life “. Tralee Pearce amusingly asserts that “The...

Alright, you deserve some links. Currently enjoying: Discopop ! Every recent post’s a winner. About Making Something Meaningful , Brad Feld has some n...

I’ll pay $100 to the first person who figures out how to make SubEthaEdit (worst name ever! I still call it Hydra) and OneNote service pack ‘s document-edit...

The conventional wisdom with a lot of the software industry is that Microsoft can just bundle any reasonably decent application into the Office suite, even i...

If you take a look at the developer documentation that’s just becoming available with the release of the first beta, you’ll see that Office 11 supports XSL tr...

Why does your office use Microsoft Office, if it does? Which programs in Office do you use?...

Hey, whadaya know? My coworker Holly ‘s photos have showed up over at R4NT , right there amidst all the art and next to the interview with Chuck D. Why, if s...

Speaking of missed opportunities in programming interfaces, why don’t mainstream Windows applications support usage metering at the function level? Meaning, wh...

Partial transcript of an Actual Phone Call from one of the crazy people at our office: Remember what the doctor said? Well, y’know how he said not to eat a...

I sit by the vending machines on my floor at my office. I always get to hear people pace back and forth between them, considering the many equally horrible opt...

Outside my office today and yesterday, the wind had shifted again. It still smells like That Tuesday when I leave work. The smell also lingers, appropriately,...

So, uh, yeah… I added a cam. Over on the left. It’s not usually going to be pointed at me, since we have many fun things to watch in our office. Also, I’m not...

As a follow-up on yesterday’s tool for Outlook 2002’s Attachment security settings , you can also check out the official Microsoft tool for making these cha...

Partial transcript of a conversation I had with Dinah , starting with me yammering about Office XP Smart Tags: Anil Dash :the Tags are like DeepLeap for...

Derek and Tanya Build a Wedding Web Site — using Microsoft Office! Who writes this stuff?...

I know a lot of folks who are passionate about Photoshop. "Just give me Photoshop," they say, "and I can do anything." But what makes me po...

I was just poking around VeriSign’s site , even thought I hate the company, because I was thinking about digital signatures today. Why isn’t there any cheap o...

Microsoft also released a utility to customize the Office 2000 Places bar , but I wasn’t too concerned about it because there’s been a WOPR PlaceBar customize...

According the MS press release, Office 10 has two features that seem like they would have been perfect with DeepLeap : **Native XML support. **Excel and...

Sorry! Busy, busy, busy…...

At my ofice, we’ve been working on a new logo . Maybe a globe? A swoosh perhaps? Ah, decisions, decisions…...

Cool little thing for Microsoft Office 2000 users, the Save My Settings Wizard , a little utility that copies your personalizations and settings from one PC...

In the immortal words of Diana Ross, " I’m Coming Out, I Want the World to Know "”. And what exactly is my secret? I am the guy Microsoft makes all t...

Little bit of appreciation for good design — despite an underwhelming set of new features, Microsoft ‘s Office 2000 has got some damn cool icons. They’re...