10 month ago
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Rabbit Rescue - Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office. #
deusx : YouTube - Rabbit Rescue - "Watch Amy Sedaris take care of business!"
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : Bug in Excel 2007 - microsoft.public.excel | Google Groups - Wow -- Calculations in Excel 2007 that come to 65,535 get displayed as 100,000. "Oops" [via] #
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15 month ago
deusx : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - "I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."
joshua : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - nice rant on simplicity and task-appropriateness for tools
Rod Begbie : Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word - "Many people agree that revision 5.1a, specifically, was the best version of Word that Microsoft has ever shipped, combining utility and minimalist elegance with reliability. Sadly for me ... I "upgraded" to Word 98, and somehow the magic was gone." [via] #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Power of Together - Sit through three "webcasts" on "exciting" "new" Microsoft "technology", and get a free legitimate license for Windows Vista and/or Office 2007. [via] #
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29 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Microsoft Vista speech recognition demo gone bad - Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Rod Begbie : Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video - "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" [via] #
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : flow|state: Insert key safely disarmed in Microsoft Word 2007 - Hitting the 'Insert' key in Word 2007 will no longer enable the inexplicable document-eating mode. It had never occurred to me just how horrendous a usability experience the Insert key could be. [via] #
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : ODF Add-in for Word 2007 - Microsoft-funded open-source plugin for MS Word 2007 which allows the opening and saving of documents in OpenOffice's Open Document Format. [via] #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (Beta 2) - Microsoft make good on their promise -- This download allows users of Office 2003 to save and open the new zipped-XML file formats. [via] #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : IanG on Tap: Office 12 and the Forthcoming UI Cargo Cults - The impending rumble of Office 2007 UI-a-likes is somewhat terrifying. [via] #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : Tell Us What You Think About Office 2007 Beta 2 - The Office 2007 team have a cool feedback-collection tool for their beta (reminiscent of the old "Report a bug" window heading from the WinXP betas). #
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2: Get the Beta - The first major public release of the next version of Office. Get your grubby hands on the shiny new UI for the first time, and try to imagine how you're going to explain it to your parents over the phone. #
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog - I've really been enjoying this blog, tellings stories about the planned (radically different) UI for the next version of Microsoft Office. It's been many years since I've been anxiously looking forward to getting my hands on a beta copy of *Office*! #
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Microsoft's new beta for search isn't in any way biased towards their products - I mean God knows there probably is only one web page on the entire internet that has "Word" on it - and it's not Merriam-Webster's dictionary at word.com! This is just dumb - people are not going to use and trust a search engine that so blatantly deforms
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