MS Word for FREE
I guess this headline sure caught your attention. Actually you still can’t go to Low Yat today and asked for a free copy, don’t even try come to 29th floor KLCC either!
You see, I just discovered that the last DOS based version of MS Word (v5.5) has been made available by Microsoft since 1999 after they released it as a Y2k fix.
You can download the program here. Below is a screen shot.
The Office 2007 UI Bible
Patrick Schmid actually compiled together blog posts of Office 2007 UI Team Program Manager Jensen Harris into sections of topics about the new Ribbon UI.
As someone who do a lot of Office customization, I keep wonder sometimes why certain things are design in certain way inside Office 2007. This bible web site will more or less gives you the answer to the 4Ws of the Office UI.
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/09/58
Jensen also did a prezzo at Mix 08 about the Story of the Ribbon, you can download the .wmv and .pptx there. Its interesting to see some early prototype of Office 2007 like the photo below.
OpenOffice supports OpenXML
There are works to be done but initial support of OpenXML in the latest version of OpenOffice (ver 3.0) is here. No more installations of ‘plugins’ from 3rd party such as Sun.
MS CRM 4.0 Titan First Impression
Well, this is not really a first impression lar. I actually just install MR CRM 4.0 on a VPC just to get a look at feel of things in MS CRM 4.0.
There is this familar Outlook feel on the workspace.
One of my favourite feature MS CRM workflow, which built on top of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
MS CRM is one of the most customisable business application inside Microsoft and I mean besides APIs and SDKs for developers, end users can also customize features within it. Workflow is one great example shown above, which is meant for end user to orchestrate process within the enterprise.
There is this nice article about 11 things to know about MS CRM 4.0 customizations.
Here is the MSDN MR CRM Developer Center. And already 3 books are written about the software.
Working with MS Dynamics CRM 4.0
Programming MS Dynamics CRM 4.0
Channel 9 has tonnes of interviews and also screencast tutorials.
Book To Read: RibbonX Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon
This is a amazing book on customizing Office 2007 new Ribbon User Interface. All the Office programming books so far never go as deep into topics such as:
Contextual Ribbon
Office Menu
Quick Access Toolbar
Best of all, it even has samples on deployment and security best practices.
There are a lot of codes inside on how to customize the above mention UI. For anyone doing Office 2007 customization you guys should really pick a copy from Amazon.
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
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- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
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