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• Where do good ideas come from? (video)

  14 Oct 2010

  Is it true that "Chance favors the connected mind?" That's one conclusion of Steven Johnson 's intriguing new book, Where good ideas come from. Johnson draws from events throughout history to describe 7 patterns and conditions--from "liquid networks" to "the slow hunch"--that foster creative breakthroughs...
• Updated! Office Web Apps reach 20 million: New features today + 7 more countries

  23 Sep 2010

  New! Office Web Apps now available worldwide Office Web Apps: Why they're the clearer connection In just over 100 days since we launched, more than 20 million people have used Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. Today we're...
• Up your presentation game with PowerPoint 2010 video and broadcast

  19 Jul 2010

  Making presentations ‘sexier’ is great, but the real gems in PowerPoint 2010 are the broadcasting and video editing features. In customers’ own words: "You can literally make a short film in one 2010 PowerPoint slide" - Anthony Guiliani "Broadcasting a PowerPoint presentation makes...
• Your stories are what make Office 2010 great

  24 Jun 2010

  When we launched Office 2010 last week, we knew that the biggest story we wanted to tell was not our story -- it was yours . The stories of people who use Office every day, to accomplish great things in ways we haven't even imagined. Office is very much about staying true to our aspiration to serve as...
• How Office 2010, Windows Live, and Office Mobile 2010 let you work from anywhere

  10 Jun 2010

  We've all heard the stories and experienced the stress and frustration of not being able to access content when and where we want it. Whether you're at a baseball game when a client calls, or you're at a friend's house without your laptop and you want to share your great fantasy football spreadsheet...
• What you don't know might surprise you...(Part Two)

  1 Jun 2010

  DYK: There has been more information produced in the past 30 years than during the past 5000 ( Thomas Hylland Eriksen ) A month ago, we invited you to join us in a conversation about Office 2010 when we started sharing business technology trends through our "Did You Know?" (DYK) program. Since its launch...
• 1+ billion mobile workers, including you?

  24 May 2010

  Is your cellphone your mobile office? Are you also hooked on blogs and networks? Here're some facts: 73% of the global online population now goes online to visit social networks & blogs. [Nielsen] 20% of bloggers report having updating their blog or adding content from their mobile device. [Technorati...
• Overloaded and working from everywhere: This week's Did You Know?

  17 May 2010

  Ready for more productivity factoids? Here's the wrap on this week's Did You Know program: 33.7M people in the US telecommute at least 1 day a month. Information overload costs US companies $900B a year in lost productivity. More than 7M people have downloaded Office 2010 beta products. (Way more--latest...
• Cloud creates new opportunities for Office: thoughts on Docs for Facebook

  27 Apr 2010

  Did you know that there are more than 250 Facebook applications that have more than one million monthly active users? Let me tell you why I'm excited about this fact. As you likely saw, last week the beta of Docs for Facebook was announced at the f8 developer conference. Driven by Microsoft FUSE Labs...
• Jeff Raikes, the man who made Office

  12 Apr 2010

  Bill Gates was a brash young entrepreneur with about 100 employees when Jeff Raikes joined Microsoft in 1981 to make business software that regular people could use--software that eventually became Office. Raikes, now CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , tells his story in two parts in Channel...
• Big cheese for PowerPoint: introducing Microsoft Mouse Mischief

  11 Mar 2010

  UPDATED 4/30: Mouse Mischief debuts today for free. Please see this post on Mouse Mischief . UPDATED 3/12 : The Beta program has ended. My fault on that--I went by the recent buzz on the project at a conference where it was shown and the site. Let me dig into the matter and report back if/when this will...
• Updated! Windows Live Skydrive gets better with Office Web Apps

  9 Mar 2010

  Today we're featuring guest blogger Evan Lew, product manager for Office Web Apps. New! See the end of this post for new information about Office Web Apps. David Pogue of the New York Times wrote a great article on Thursday about his discovery of Windows Live SkyDrive, "a free, 25-gigabyte virtual hard...
• Productivity + social media = goodness for the workplace

  25 Feb 2010

  Over the last few weeks we've heard loads of "buzz" about infusing social media services into productivity apps. From Google's Buzz to Salesforce.com's Chatter to our own Outlook Social Connector , user demand for connecting the productivity tools they know and love with social networking apps they increasingly...
• Opera and SharePoint Part 2: End user training resources

  15 Feb 2010

  In our ongoing saga of the Seattle Opera and SharePoint, we turn to a variation of the old Zen conundrum: What if you install a new system and nobody uses it? As with anything, it's possible to revert to old habits and just recreate the same old work-arounds. Which is not good. The Opera folks have a...
• How wikis can help wrangle team processes

  17 Sep 2009

  SharePoint wikis help us wrangle some processes in our group, especially when they’re on the wilder side. They work best when we need to capture knowledge from several people in an informal way. The authors are usually also the readers, so it feels less like one person “owns” the content. As people add...