Wednesday, 24 May 2006 - Posts

Great Office UI Blog

I discovered Jensen Harris' blog today and have found it to be a treasure chest full of jewels about features in the Office UI.  Each post turns out to be a little tutorial - very similar to the Vista Visions format.  Today I spent Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 8:52 PM by darren | 0 Comments

5384.4

Is the build number for Vista Beta 2 Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 6:03 PM by darren | 0 Comments

Vista Visions #3: Live Previews

I love these.  Little preview windows of the minimized apps in your windows bar.  They are live because they get refreshed in real time. Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 5:49 PM by darren | 1 Comments

Vista Visions #2: Favorite Links

In Vista Vibes #3 Ian told us about a feature called Favorite Links.  Favorite links allow you to drag folders into the Favorites area and have them available everywhere at the click of a button.  Here's a screenshot of the Favorite Links: Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 4:43 PM by darren | 2 Comments
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Vista and Office 2007 Visions - Show us your cool stuff

As some of you know, I’ve been asked by Frank Arrigo to maintain the guest bloggers spot on this site for the next couple of months – and so I’m on the lookout for interesting content.  I've had an idea called “Vista and OFFICE 2007 Visions” Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 4:12 PM by darren | 5 Comments
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Vista Visions #1: RSS Sidebar Gadget

Vista Beta 2 ships with some standard Sidebar Gadgets, one of which is the RSS Gadget which is shown here: I'm running Office 12 and managing my feeds in Outlook via the new RSS Feed integration.  Because Outlook uses the new RSS Feed Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 3:56 PM by darren | 4 Comments
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Available for Download

Today Microsoft released beta 2 of Office 2007. This beta is publicly available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx This site also has some great information regarding Office 2007 on it. Take a few minutes to look around Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 1:45 PM by darren | 0 Comments

Chris is having a Vista Beta 2 installfest this weekend

Beers, Bikes, BBQ and Dogfood is how he announced it.  What a great way to kick off Vista Beta 2!  While talking about the just released Beta 2 of Vista, I read on Brad Abrams blog that it was today announced that Beta 2 of WinFX comes Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 9:21 AM by darren | 0 Comments

Vista Vibes #4: Chris Auld

How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?   My desktop is what my notebook PC sits on :-)  I have a seperate HDD with Vista installed that I swap into and out of my primary notebook PC- an Acer Ferrari 4005. It's Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 9:02 AM by darren | 0 Comments
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