11 April 2010 0 Comments

It’s launch time, baby!

11 апреля, Воскресенье, 15.30 в Екатеринбурге, 13.30 в Москве.

27 January 2010 0 Comments

Mike Ormond: What do you do around here?

If you don’t know him already, Mike’s a Developer Evangelist and has been on the Microsoft DPE team for around 8 years. He must really love his job!   What’s your area of focus – and why? I work with web technologies – essentially the Microsoft web stack, so IIS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller), Ajax and of course Silverlight.

1 December 2009 0 Comments

E-Wallet from Ilium Software upgraded to 7.0

Just got a mail from Ilium about this new upgrade to their very powerful wallet software. One big feature they’ve improved is the overall sync experience between the device experience and the full desktop experience.     checkout their website here : http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/ew/ew_70.php

30 November 2009 0 Comments

Watch Top Templates with Doug & Ron: Award Certificates

This episode of Top Templates showcases a community-submitted Award Certificate template made in Word 2007. All-Star Student Certificate was submitted by Maggie O., who adapted our Publisher template, World’s Best Certificate .   Top Templates with Doug and Ron: Award Certificates Download this template , browse more free award certificates templates , or submit your own .

18 November 2009 0 Comments

Fun with Candy Bar Wrappers

One fun and easy project I’ve done using Publisher is to make a candy bar wrapper replica for special occasions. These are simple to create publications that you wrap around a store bought candy bar to dress them up with your information on them.

15 September 2009 0 Comments

SC34 WG4 Meeting, Bellevue

WG4 has been meeting in Bellevue, Washington the last three days, as part of a full week of activities around the upcoming SC34 plenary here this Thursday.  We wrapped up the meeting with a half-day this morning (Tuesday), after meeting all day on Sunday and Monday. WG4 covered a variety of topics in this week’s meetings.  I won’t get into great detail on those, because some of these topics are still open and WG4 deliberations will continue in future calls and meetings, but here are a few of the more interesting topics we covered:  The past, present and future of Strict and Transitional; WG4 is working toward consensus on the long-term intent of this distinction, to help guide future work on new functionality and other maintenance activities. The W3C “Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration” candidate recommendation, and how it compares/contrasts to OPC

7 September 2009 0 Comments

Cloud Architect Forum 25th September London

Short notice, but definitely worth coming too (places limited to 90). The architect forum on the 25th September at Cardinal Place, London will look at cloud from the architects perspective, looking at the opportunities and challenges that enterprises are facing. To register go here Given that I had Simon Guest , Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft over I felt I had to get something together for us to talk with him

31 August 2009 0 Comments

See Trixie360 and KP at PAX this weekend

I’m moderating a panel on community in the Unicorn Theater at noon on Saturday. Who’s on the panel? Our very own KP, Jeff Rubenstein from PlayStation, Steve519 from Platform Nation and Burnie Burns from Roosterteeth.

27 August 2009 0 Comments

Have you been to Gnomedex?

What is Gnomedex all about ?

26 August 2009 0 Comments

I Love You, Man

No, really … it’s the I Love You, Man Download & Win Sweepstakes . Download the special Gamer Picture and the movie itself from Xbox LIVE Marketplace and you could win a trip for a winner and three guests to Las Vegas! It’s a sweet, sweet hangin’ Vegas vacation and you get to watch a hilarious movie starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.

25 August 2009 0 Comments

Marketing design set templates from our newest partner, LayoutReady

Office Online Templates introduces our newest partner, LayoutReady, (a division of StockLayouts, LLC ), with a set of real estate marketing templates available for free download– including brochures, flyers, newsletters, stationery, postcards, ads, and posters, for Microsoft Word or Publisher. Click here to view all LayoutReady templates on Office Online . LayoutReady’s professionally-designed, royalty-free Publisher and Word templates include customizable files, high quality stock photos and illustrations, and are produced to standards suitable for printing on color laser or inkjet printers

21 August 2009 0 Comments

Community Playdate: Signed In 8/23

On Sunday August 23, from 8-11 PM ET, join the Signed In podcasters and play a bit of Battlefield 1943. Go here for the details .