Some Other Office Blogs Involving Word 2010

With my introductory post and Scott's framing post, we hope that you have a good sense for many of the advancements coming in Word 2010. And while we will be posting some Word specific details later this week, in the meantime, I would like to introduce you to the blogs of four shared teams in Office. These blogs are great resources for features and functionality that are new to Word, but not new to only Word. The Ribbon in Office 2007/Word 2007 is a great example of one of these shared features.

To give a quick bit of additional context, the Word team (i.e. the team that writes this blog) is best thought of as a piece—albeit a large piece—of a much bigger puzzle that makes up the Word application. Building off of the Word 2007 Ribbon example, for the 2007 release, the Word team worked very closely with…

• the Office Trustworthy Computing Team—to make sure that Word is secure
• the Natural Language Group—to bring you features like contextual spell checking
• the Office Global Experience team—to ensure that Word is useful worldwide
• and more

Given that we're continuing this type of collaborative engineering in Word 2010 with shared features like the new Backstage View and Office Web Applications, you can learn a lot about Word 2010 by reading the blogs of the other Office teams that we're working with.

We'll certainly continue to cover any and everything about Word on this blog; these blogs are just great complements.

I'll be tagging these types of cross-Office link posts as "shared" moving forward. Hope these are useful.

• Office Engineering Blog
  • Security Improvements in Office 2010
  • Introduction the Backstage View in Office 2010
  • How to Submit Feedback on the Technical Preview
• Office Web Apps
  • The Three Tenets of the Office Web Apps
• Office Global Experience
  • Reading, Authoring, and Interacting in a Another Language Using Office 2010
• Office Natural Language Team Blog
  • Proofing Tools in Office 2010

Jonathan Bailor (MS)