Office

I recently interviewed Eric Schnepp, Lead Program Manager, about Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) that was first publically demonstrated in today's Eric Rudder keynote at PDC05.

We go into Mike Morton's office and have a chat about the next version of Sharepoint with PJ Hough, group program manager on Sharepoint Services Team. The team talks about the future of Sharepoint and gives us a demo.

This morning at the PDC Microsoft announced several workflow initiatives. Rob Lefferts talks about how the Office system is helping information workers do their jobs easier. He talks about Windows Workflow Foundation too, which was also just announced this morning and how the world of work is…

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them "are you nuts?" After all, changing how…

On the Channel 9 team we get a ton of email. It's overwhelming at times, actually. So, we were very interested when Eric Horvitz (Microsoft's most prolific inventor) said "I have something that can help."That something is the Outlook Mobile Manager. It prioritizes your messages and makes…

Catherine Heller is a Technical Evangelist and works closely with the VSTO team, ensuring that they build the right product for customers. She knows quite about about VSTO and in this video she writes some code for us, showing off the power of VSTO (as well as her coding…

Great news: Now you'll be able to use VSTO to build managed Office add-ins for Outlook! Most cool. In this video, Catherine Heller, Developer Tools Technical Evangelist chats with Andrew Whitechapel, an Office program manager who's helped make this great VSTO Outlook add-in platform…

Jean Paoli was bouncing around the offices here in building 18 today. Who's he? One of the co-creators of XML. Why was he happy? Because Office just announced their new file formats all built in XML. "We just turned on 400 million new people to XML," he told us. Other…

What is Office Communicator? Well, Office Communicator team Director Andrew Sinclair sits down with us and tells us all about it. Enjoy Download Size: 66 MB

We heard Eric Lippert was talking with a bunch of customers over in building 20 (that's where a lot of teams meet with groups of customers to show them new technologies). So, we headed over there to meet with Eric, a software design engineer, to talk about developing applications for Microsoft…