Philo's WebLogMusings of a former Office Developer EvangelistUrquhart's Avoidance and product futures- February 28, 2007 I give a lot of product briefings, and of course often get caught between what I know and what I can say. In these cases I often find it useful to use Urquhart's Avoidance, made famous in the BBC miniseries "House of Cards" (which I highly recommend): "You might very well think that; but I couldn't possibly comment" However, for those times when I honestly cannot answer, I have to share the general "why": the laws of space and time still apply in Redmond. If you've ever been on a software...http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2007/02/27/urquhart-s-avoidance-and-product-futures.a... "InfoPath isn't part of Office"- February 26, 2007 Simon said: "Then you find out its not part of the office suite." To be fair, this is somewhat true. At best, it's confusing. With Office 2003, InfoPath wasn't part of the suite you could buy retail or on open license. However, if you bought Office Pro on an enterprise agreement, you did have rights to InfoPath for every desktop. Unfortunately, in the volume license media, there were two DVD's: one labeled "Office Professional" and another labeled "InfoPath." You had to understand the...http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2007/02/26/infopath-isn-t-part-of-office.aspx Why hasn't anyone heard of InfoPath- February 25, 2007 I recently wrote a book on InfoPath 2007. What I find most amazing about the book is that it's evangelizing InfoPath. I've shown a number of developers the book, and when they read the description, their reaction is "wow, InfoPath sounds cool - I should check it out." How is it possible that a member of MS Office that's four years old has almost no mindshare I don't know the answer - I'd be interested to hear suggestions on how to get the word out to more users and developers.http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2007/02/25/why-hasn-t-anyone-heard-of-infopath.aspx |