Office Labs

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game complete with points, achievements and even Facebook integration, is now supporting OneNote. Users of either OneNote 2007 or OneNote 2010 can play Ribbon Hero to learn how to use OneNote by competing in the…

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game, has just been updated to a new version. In the latest build, you have the opportunity to score more Quick Points by using the features found in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can also score points by…

The Microsoft Office Labs team has just launched a new experimental tool that brings Twitter-like microblogging to the workplace. Called OfficeTalk, this concept test application lets employees post their thoughts, activities and other info which is shared with anyone and everyone in their company.…

"Explore. Experiment. Discuss." That's the tagline you'll see when you visit officelabs.com and that's exactly what you will have the opportunity to do. I sat down with Chris Pratley, GM of OfficeLabs to find out how this unique division of Microsoft came about and why. He also gave…

Office Service Pack 2 is out and Program Manager Zeyad Rajabi stops by to show us some of the latest developer tools we have created for it. Along with significant stability and perf, SP2 extends interop and hopefully makes your job a little easier. For example, Zeyad shows us how to make a…

By now you've probably seen Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision video, also known as the 2019 video. But why does Microsoft make envisioning videos? What's the process? Is it all vapor or are we really going to see some of these things in upcoming products? I met with Director of Envisioning, Ian…

By now you've probably seen Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision video, also known as the 2019 video. But why does Microsoft make envisioning videos? What's the process? Is it all vapor or are we really going to see some of these things in upcoming products? I met with Director of Envisioning, …

Nathan Fish stopped by from Office Labs to show us a new application we're releasing today called Canvas for OneNote. You can think of it as DeepZoom for OneNote, allowing you to fluidly move in and out of all the pages of your notebook. This allows you to get a better view and therefore more…

A new project from Office Labs has just been unveiled: Touchless, a multitouch software app and SDK that lets you create and experience multi-touch applications of your own...with no need for expensive hardware or software. The way it does that is with the use of a standard computer webcam and…

Chart Advisor is a prototype that provides an alternate approach for creating charts in Excel 2007. This add-in uses an advanced rules engine to scan your data and, based on predefined rules, displays charts according to score. Top scoring charts are available for you to preview, tweak, and…