OfficeRocker!
Strange thinking about Microsoft Office
WordPerfect announce support for OpenXML
According to Clive Akass (who I demo'd O12 to earlier in the week) in his recent post "New...
Author: dstrange Date: 01/20/2006
Word 12 - full screen reading
One of the great things about being an Office PM is that whenever I do briefings to press, I'm...
Author: dstrange Date: 01/19/2006
Robert Fripp records the Vista sounds!
a bit surreal but apparently Robert Fripp has done the sounds for Vista - check out this channel 9...
Author: dstrange Date: 01/05/2006
O12 summary article
Post on scobbleizer today about O12 worth a read. the article links to on Paul Thurrott's site is...
Author: dstrange Date: 01/05/2006
Idle thinking is the fuel for innovation
I loved OneNote - did everything in it, used my tabletPC to the max, wrote notes all the time with...
Author: dstrange Date: 01/04/2006
Who moved my metadata?
I got caught out yesterday in a demo looking for this so now that I've found it I thought I'd post....
Author: dstrange Date: 12/21/2005
Calibri
Couple of updates on this: I was asked yesterday what happens if you write a doc in Word 12 using...
Author: dstrange Date: 12/21/2005
Changing with the Times - new fonts in O12
The new font, Calibri, in Office 12 is one of the 6 new fonts you will find in Office 12. In 12 it...
Author: dstrange Date: 12/20/2005
Better Christmas results faster
<jolly Santa-type colour for this post>Its been a busy few weeks (even the one I was on...
Author: dstrange Date: 12/19/2005
Office 12 beta 1 ships!!
Its the first milestone in our journey to ship this product - beta 1 was released to the Rapid...
Author: dstrange Date: 11/17/2005
Focus on the sides not the corners!
I was trying to explain to a few people today where I think we need to focus our solution thinking...
Author: dstrange Date: 11/03/2005
anonymous comments enabled
pink for embarrased. sorry I missed the anon comments enablement - should work now! thanks to Simon...
Author: dstrange Date: 10/26/2005
I name this blog..
people seem to like the name of the blog which is a good start I suppose :-) although not everyone...
Author: dstrange Date: 10/25/2005
PDC content available
thanks to Graham Tyler for pointing out that the PDC material has just been made public. Terrific...
Author: dstrange Date: 10/25/2005
Welcome to Office Rocker!
Hello, welcome to my blog. I'm Darren Strange, the Office "12" PM in the UK. My job is to bring...
Author: dstrange Date: 10/25/2005