Windows, Office, and Exchange Business Launch- November 30, 2006 Today is the official business launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Exchange Server 2007. This means that as of today, businesses can get these products and start deploying them within their organization. The consumer launch is scheduled for January 30that's when you'll be able to go into retail stores and buy shrink-wrapped copies of Office and Windows. You can read all about the business launch, see videos, and participate in the forums here: http:msnewday.com Steve...http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/30/windows-office-and-exchange-business-laun... RibbonX Image FAQ- November 27, 2006 Today I'm delighted to present a new guest writer to the blog: Eric Faller, Software Design Engineer on the Office User Experience Team. Eric is one of the developers on our team who helped to design and implement RibbonX, the user interface extensibility model for Office developers. Today's Guest Writer: Eric Faller Some of the most commonly asked questions around RibbonX deal with how to load and get images to display properly in the Ribbon. This FAQ about images assumes that you're already.http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/27/ribbonx-image-faq.aspx Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface- November 21, 2006 For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product" On one hand, it's an immensely satisfying question to hear, because it means that others in the industry believe in the value of what we've built and see how the sound UI research we've done can benefit their own products. Creating the new user interface has been our team's passion for the last three years, and we love sharing the fruits of this...http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing-the-2007-microsoft-office-user-... Developer Resources for Office 2007 RTM- November 13, 2006 Now that we've released Office 2007 to manufacturing, developers can get started modifying their solutions so that they're ready to test with the released version of Office. Final versions of the RibbonX schema and Control ID list will be published on MSDN soon, but that can take a whileso I'll continue to publish developer resources here first so that you don't have to wait. First, the entire set of Office 2007 Control ID lists. I'm putting these up in two different formats: .xls (97-2003...http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/13/developer-resources-for-office-2007-rtm.a... The Office 2007 UI Bible- November 10, 2006 I've published over 200 posts on this blog since I started it last September. With all of those posts, it can be hard to remember what you've read and what you haven't and it can be hard for new people to jump in and figure out where to start reading. I've been meaning to sit down and create a kind of table of contents for all of the posts herea starting point for people to read about the Office 2007 UI. But then, I found out that someone already did the work for me. Patrick Schmid, a...http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/10/the-office-2007-ui-bible.aspx Office 2007 Released to Manufacturing- November 6, 2006 I'm proud to announce that last Friday, November 3 at approximately 2:30 PM, we signed off on build 4518.1014 as the 2007 Microsoft Office system and released it to manufacturing. This was followed by a ship party for everyone in Office including a few minutes of speeches, the traditional sounding of the RTM siren, and plenty of champagne (much of which I ended up wearing.) The rain even stopped for a few hours!You can read the official press release here. This release has been such a...http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/06/office-2007-released-to-manufacturing.asp... |