Yesterday Microsoft announced that the Office team has reached the technical preview engineering milestone for Microsoft Office 2010.  We now kick-off the Technical Preview program mentioned in our June 25 th posting.   The big effect that this will have on the PowerPoint Team Blog is that the team can start talking publically about what we’ve been working on over the past two-plus years.  As you can imagine, it is a very exciting time! Over the next few months, the blog will...

Audience: Office 365 for enterprises administrators I'm Jon Orton, product manager on the Exchange team here at Microsoft. Welcome to our product insight series on Exchange Online. For our first post, I want to cover two things: an overview of Exchange Online and a look at some of the cool features coming to Exchange Online with Office 365. Quick Overview of Exchange Online You've probably heard of Exchange Server, and with Exchange Online, we've taken the capabilities of Exchange Server and offered...

You asked, we listened. Today marks the exciting debut of OneNote Mobile for Android in over 20 international markets. With this release, OneNote Mobile is available across a variety of platforms, all of which let you effortlessly collect, find, use, and share your notes and ideas on the go.

Read the full blog post to download OneNote Mobile to your Android phone and to get a first look at the app!

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By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division This morning, Kurt DelBene and Chris Capossela, the president and vice president of the Microsoft Office Division respectively announced Of fice 365, opened the beta, and shared the stories of some of our amazing customers and partners. Because not everyone could be with us at the event in San Francisco, we invited media to ask questions via Twitter, and ask you did! We promised to answer them on our blog, and here they are...

If you use an iPhone, now you can experience the organizing power of OneNote right there. Starting today, you can download Microsoft OneNote Mobile for iPhone from the iTunes App Store, and it's free for a limited time. 

OneNote Mobile for the iPhone lets you capture and review notes and lists on your phone. Notes are automatically backed up and synced with free Windows Live SkyDrive online storage, so that you can access them from virtually anywhere - your PC, phone, and browser. Collecting thoughts and ideas on the go is what OneNote was made for. Read the full post to learn more.

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We've been seeing questions about how to set up and print an envelope--not a slew of envelopes in a mail merge, but just one.

So our Word of the week is envelopes.

Let's take a look:

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The Microsoft Office product teams are proud to announce the release of Office 2003 Service Pack 3. While we know that many of you are enjoying the great functionality of Office 2007, we also know that there are many more of you who still continue to rely on Office 2003. Office 2003 SP3 is focused on improved security across the entire suite of applications, fulfillment of top customer requests, and improved compatibility with Windows Vista. We recommend that all of Office 2003 users install the...

On the Office Web Apps team, we are committed to improving our products based on your feedback. Since we launched the Web Apps just over a year ago, we’ve been listening to you, and today we’re releasing new features based on what we’ve heard.

To everybody who has shared their opinion with us, we want to say a big THANK YOU!

Here’s what we’re delivering to you today, based on your requests:

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Did you know the interface used in Office programs before 2007 was designed way back in 1992? That's something I learned when researching the Office 2007 interface, the ribbon. Here's some cool tools to help you get the most out of it.

The interactive guides mentioned in this video are here for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook. Or find them all here.

More tools: Get Started with Office 2007 here including a free add-in to get quick information right in a program (as seen in the image to the right). Also, watch former Group Program Manager Jensen Harris give a much more eloquent (and longer) look at the why and how of the ribbon, for those who need The Story of the Ribbon.

--Doug

 

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As announced earlier today, over the next few days we are releasing an update to Microsoft account. For people who use Outlook.com, this includes a number of new features such as two-step verification, the ability to sign in with an alias and new international domains for your email address. Read on to learn about this new feature and how to set it up.

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