Today is the official business launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Exchange Server 2007. This means that as of today, businesses can get these products and start deploying them within their organization
Archive for November, 2006
Today I’m delighted to present a new guest writer to the blog: Eric Faller, Software Design Engineer on the Office User Experience Team.
Read this article:
RibbonX Image FAQ
For the last year or so, one of the questions I’ve been asked again and again has been: “Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?” On one hand, it’s an immensely satisfying question to hear, because it means that others in the industry believe in the value of what we’ve built and see how the sound UI research we’ve done can benefit their own products. Creating the new user interface has been our team’s passion for the last three years, and we love sharing the fruits of this hard work. On the other hand, the new Office user interface was a huge investment by Microsoft and the resulting intellectual property belongs to Microsoft
Follow this link:
Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface
Now that we’ve released Office 2007 to manufacturing, developers can get started modifying their solutions so that they’re ready to test with the released version of Office. Final versions of the RibbonX schema and Control ID list will be published on MSDN soon, but that can take a while—so I’ll continue to publish developer resources here first so that you don’t have to wait. First, the entire set of Office 2007 Control ID lists
More here:
Developer Resources for Office 2007 RTM
I’ve published over 200 posts on this blog since I started it last September. With all of those posts, it can be hard to remember what you’ve read and what you haven’t… and it can be hard for new people to jump in and figure out where to start reading. I’ve been meaning to sit down and create a kind of table of contents for all of the posts here—a starting point for people to read about the Office 2007 UI
Read the original:
The Office 2007 UI Bible
I’m proud to announce that last Friday, November 3 at approximately 2:30 PM, we signed off on build 4518.1014 as the 2007 Microsoft Office system and released it to manufacturing.
Here is the original post:
Office 2007 Released to Manufacturing