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  • Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010

    Business Contact Manager is a powerful contact and customer information management feature of Outlook. The new version of Business Contact Manager (BCM) for Outlook 2010 is far more powerful and flexible than BCM for Outlook 2007. Manage your business contacts, track opportunities through the sales cycle, send personalized marketing campaigns, and organize your business projects. With this introductory post , the BCM team has started to write about the top features in their upcoming release for Office...
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  • Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010

    There have been several improvements made in Excel 2010 to the function library and the Solver add-in. The function improvements have been made to address issues reported in academic papers as well as customer feedback. To quote the Excel team blog : “In Excel 2010, we made many improvements to Excel's function library. Excel 2010 will feature an accurate and consistent function library while remaining compatible with previous versions of Excel. “ In addition to the accuracy improvements, we...

  • Welcome to the Office 2010 Engineering blog

    This week, we announced the availability of the Office2010 Technical Preview for limited testing. Over the coming months, we hope to learn a lot from our Technical Preview customers about Office2010 and at the same time, we will use this blog to highlight some of the new capabilities that we have added to Office. In addition to this blog, you can find lots of content on the existing Office team blogs, plus the http://www.office2010themovie.com web site, which hosts a set of 'behind the scenes'...

  • Volume Activation

    Hi, I’m Ted Way, a Program Manager on the Licensing team. Ever enter a 25-character key when you installed Office? That’s us. I’m looking forward to sharing how we’re helping administrators worry less about key management and seamlessly integrate Windows and Office activation in the enterprise. Starting in Office 2010, all volume editions of Office client software will require activation. What’s great for administrators is that Office has adopted the Windows Software Protection Platform (SPP), which...

  • Office 2010 and AppV 4.6

    Today, over on the MDOP BLOG , we announced the release of the next version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (4.6) as part of MDOP 2010 (Microsoft Deployment Optimization Pack).  From Takeshi Numoto, Corporate VP in Office: “App-V 4.6 provides Office customers with a robust set of features to tackle core challenges including application upgrade, application coexistence, and user readiness. It’s an exciting, powerful new way for IT to deliver Office 2010 quickly without impacting user...

  • Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010

    The Excel team has made several improvements in the data visualization area for Excel 2010 and been posting lots of details on the Excel Team Blog . First off, the Excel team added a visualization that you can use to enhance your spreadsheets, sparklines : “For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence. Sparklines help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike...

  • Volume Activation Tips and Tricks

    Hi again, I’m Ted Way, program manager for Office 2010 volume activation . Last time I posted to this blog, I talked about KMS and MAK as two activation methods for the enterprise. If you’re planning on deploying Office 2010, Windows (7, Vista, Server 2008 R2, Server 2008), or a combination of these, you’ll be happy to know that the activation technologies are essentially the same. The same KMS host running on Windows Server 2008 R2, volume editions of Windows 7, or Windows Server 2003 can activate...

  • Microsoft Office Backstage (Part 4 - The Help Tab)

    Hi, my name is Justin S. Davis, and I am a Program Manager on the Office Product Lifecycle Engineering Excellence (PLEX) team. Clay, Jon, and Marina from the Office User Experience team have already introduced you to the Microsoft Office Backstage View . The Backstage provides a first-class surface for a wealth of document information and operations that had been obscured by levels of user interface. In Office 2007, information about your product, product licenses, and product support is buried several...

  • Office 2010: Visuals and Branding

    Hello, I’m Keri Vandeberghe and I work in Microsoft’s Office Design Group (ODG) as a User Experience Designer. I would like to share the story behind the visual approach and brand integration for Office 2010. I’ll give you a behind the scenes look at the philosophy that led us to the current design direction. Philosophy Office 2010 is not a complete makeover but a visual refresh to refine surfaces and remove unnecessary visual elements so the focus is on users’ content and less on the borders and...

  • Office 2010 File Validation

    Howdy, I’m David B Heise and I work on the Office Security team responsible for testing Office File Validation (codename: Gatekeeper). There have been some misconceptions about the new file validation feature in Microsoft Office 2010 and I hope to clear these up and explain the why and what. Why Validate Binary Files? Throughout the years the office binary formats have necessarily evolved and grown in scale and complexity. The reasons why the formats are complex have been discussed sufficiently elsewhere...

  • The Magic of Background Removal

    Hi, I’m Tucker Hatfield and I’m a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team. Pictures are great – worth 1,000 words they say – so it’s a great idea to use them to spice up a document or add some flair to a presentation. The problem is that they usually end up being self-contained rectangles in the middle of things, and they don’t really flow into the content. You can put borders or effects on them to make them look more artistic, but up until now the only way to isolate part of the picture was...

  • Disappearing Comments?

    We ’ ve recently heard that over the past several weeks many of you have tried to post comments on this blog that never appeared . We ’ re working hard with support folks to track down why this is happening. In the meantime i f you make a comment and it doesn ’ t appear within 24 hours, use the ‘ e-mail ’ link at the top of this page to let us know! Please include when you commented and on which post; we'll follow up directly with you to troubleshoot the problem. Thanks! Read More...

  • Digital Signitures in Office 2010

    Hello, my name is Shelley Gu and I am a Program Manager on the Trustworthy Computing Security team. I’d like to introduce some new features we have added to digital signatures in Office 2010. First I’ll briefly explain what digital signatures are and how to use them, and then I’ll dive into the details about how they work in Office 2010. What are digital signatures? More and more business transactions are being conducted electronically. Consequently, digital signatures are being used increasingly...

  • UX Research Tools and Techniques

    Hi, let us introduce ourselves. I’m Tim Weber (UX Researcher) and I’m Tricia Fejfar (UX Research Manager) in the Office Design Group (ODG). As Shawn indicated in his “ Designing with Customers in Mind ” post, ODG includes UX Researchers who work to understand user needs and to integrate user feedback into our software design process.  We want to tell you a little bit about some of our research for Office 2010 and how it’s made the overall experience better for users like you. Tell me again,...

  • Introducing Visio 2010

    Visio 2010 brings many new features that make Visio more powerful and easier to use. This post gives a few quick highlights on Visio 2010, along with links to more detailed posts on the Visio team’s official blog . One of the first things users of Visio 2010 will notice is that menus and toolbars have been replaced by the Office Fluent UI, which makes frequently used commands easier to find. Here is the Home tab of the Visio Ribbon : The new Ribbon UI is accompanied by a redesigned Shapes Window...
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