IW Executive Prodcast - Bill Gates, Chairman - Microsoft

Mon May 28 2007

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IW Executive Prodcast - Chris Capossela, Corporate VP, IW Group

Mon May 07 2007

Later this week, I'll be interviewing a special guest for IW Talk...this will be a prodcast that you won't want to miss!!! (more about that very very ... read more

Later this week, I'll be interviewing a special guest for IW Talk...this will be a prodcast that you won't want to miss!!! (more about that very very soon) For the upcoming mystery guest, we'll be discussing the future of productivity tools and the direction of Microsoft information worker solutions. To set the stage for the upcoming session, I thought I would re-post my interview with Chris Capos... read more

Later this week, I'll be interviewing a special guest for IW Talk...this will be a prodcast that you won't want to miss!!! (more about that very very soon) For the upcoming mystery guest, we'll be discussing the future of productivity tools and the direction of Microsoft information worker solutions. To set the stage for the upcoming session, I thought I would re-post my interview with Chris Capossela, who gave a great overview of the value of the 2007 Office System. Prior to the 2007 Office System launch, I was fortunate to sit down with Chris, who is the Vice President in charge of the Information Worker business here at Microsoft. In this prodcast, Chris highlights the various trends that we're seeing in the business world and how productivity tools such as Office, SharePoint and our Unified Communications products are changing how people work together. I hope you enjoy this discussion and stay tuned next week when I reveal the identity of my latest executive prodcast. Click the links below to play audio (41:56)WMA AudioMP3 Audio For more information on Microsoft Office 2007, please visit the Microsoft website. read less

Office Enterprise 2007 Prodcast - Anne Weiler, Group Product Manager

Mon April 23 2007

In today's second prodcast, Anne Weiler details the newest offering in the Office System, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. The Enterprise edition of ... read more

In today's second prodcast, Anne Weiler details the newest offering in the Office System, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. The Enterprise edition of Office 2007 is intended for highly mobile employees who spend a lot of time in meetings or on the road. A superset of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Office Enterprise 2007 also includes Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 and Microsoft Office Gro... read more

In today's second prodcast, Anne Weiler details the newest offering in the Office System, Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. The Enterprise edition of Office 2007 is intended for highly mobile employees who spend a lot of time in meetings or on the road. A superset of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Office Enterprise 2007 also includes Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove 2007. If you are a information worker who collaborates with people in other locations or even within other companies, the Office Enterprise 2007 product may be for you. Click the links below to play audio (12:39) WMA Audio MP3 Audio For more information on Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, please visit the Microsoft website. read less

Office Professional 2007 Prodcast - Mark Alexieff, Product Manager

Mon April 23 2007

Most customers are familiar with the two main boxes of Office applications, "Standard and Professional". With the 2007 versions of the main productivi... read more

Most customers are familiar with the two main boxes of Office applications, "Standard and Professional". With the 2007 versions of the main productivity applications, the boxes are evolving to include new technology and additional products. Now the main Office boxes for corporate customers will be "Standard 2007", "Professional Plus 2007", and "Enterprise 2007". Today, we'll explore the two higher... read more

Most customers are familiar with the two main boxes of Office applications, "Standard and Professional". With the 2007 versions of the main productivity applications, the boxes are evolving to include new technology and additional products. Now the main Office boxes for corporate customers will be "Standard 2007", "Professional Plus 2007", and "Enterprise 2007". Today, we'll explore the two higher end sku's (store keeping units), Pro Plus and Enterprise. Mark Alexieff, the Product Manager for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, spent a few minutes with me on the phone talking about why a customer might want Professional Plus instead of the Standard edition. In this prodcast, he details technology that will ONLY be available in the higher end SKUS, such as infopath forms integration, rights management, and enterprise content management components. He also touches on the additional applications included in Pro Plus; Access 2007, Publisher 2007 and Office Communicator (the enterprise IM client for Live Communications Server. Take a listen to this prodcast to see why Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 might be for you. Click the links below to play audio (16:43) WMA Version MP3 Version For more information on Microsoft Office Excel 2007, please visit the Microsoft website. read less

OpenXML File Formats Prodcast - Gray Knowlton, Senior Product Manager

Mon April 16 2007

One of the more exciting things about the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 applications is the new default file format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Ba... read more

One of the more exciting things about the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 applications is the new default file format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Based entirely on XML, the new OpenXML file formats are smaller, safer, and more flexible. Gray Knowlton, a Senior Product Manager in the Office division spent some time with me on the phone discussing the benefits of the new file formats. Gray highlig... read more

One of the more exciting things about the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 applications is the new default file format in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Based entirely on XML, the new OpenXML file formats are smaller, safer, and more flexible. Gray Knowlton, a Senior Product Manager in the Office division spent some time with me on the phone discussing the benefits of the new file formats. Gray highlights how the new formats will save disk space on your network (Word and Excel documents are approximately 50% smaller than previous versions), make your networks safer by not running macros by default, and will make it easier to recover data if necessary. He also explores how you can now inject XML data INTO an Office document, making it easier to automatically create or update information, without even opening the Office application. Gray also talked about the "Save as PDF" feature and ability to create XPS (XML Paper Specification) documents. Click to Play Audio (16:20) WMA Version MP3 Version For more information on the OpenXML file formats, please visit the Microsoft website. If you're a developer, you can learn more on the OpenXML specs at the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site. read less