I'm sure you've all noticed that I've been less than active on the blog lately.  I'm sorry for the lull, and the reason is that change is afoot. After 7.5 years working on the data team here in Office I've decided to make a change.  Monday 3/3 I'm starting a new role with the Virtual Earth team.  For those of you who aren't familiar, VE is an awesome (if you're a map geek like me) technology which allows you to see maps of the entire world complete with overlays of imagery taken from...

I am going to be in San Diego this coming week at Etech (March 3rd-6th) and then in Austin for SXSWi (March 7th-11th). If you are in the area I would love to try and arrange a time to talk, and get your feedback on Access. Just click here and drop us a line with your contact info. Ryan McMinn: Access Program Manager

The sudden demo Watch this: Make a control move as you resize a form is now live on Office Online. This is a companion demo to Watch this: Make a text box grow or shrink as you resize a form , published earlier. We also just published a video demo for queries: Watch this: Make a query ask for input .

Today's author: Kerry Westphal, a program manager who works on the Access team. I like how many web 2.0 applications make it very easy to visualize complex data quickly. I found myself recently challenged with this task while working on a project where I wanted to display on a report an easy way to show the time elapsed between the current date and another date. Example scenarios how long it’s been since a user profile has been updated, the time left until taxes are due or how long a library book...