Anith Gopal

‘Word Automation’ and ‘Word Automation Services’ are two developer building blocks that have similar names, and have overlapping functionality, but are very different pieces of technology.  I received some email about the post Understanding the Three Approaches to Office Development using VSTO where readers were confused about this, so here is the scoop. This post is one in a series on Microsoft Office 2010 application development. These posts will be published in the future as part of an MSDN article.

Na última sexta-feira (05 de março) foi anunciada a data de lançamento do SharePoint e do Office 2010. A esperada data é 12 de maio de 2010

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace-these are common social networking sites/services that are on the tip of the tongue nowadays. Beyond their relative novelty, they’ve brought fresh attention to long-standing questions and engendered new ones. Recently, Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President of Office Product Management Group , submitted a post, ” Productivity + social media = goodness for the workplace “.

Nothing like taking things right up to the wire – and this year we’ve excelled ourselves in making last minute changes to our BETT stand, in order to find a way to fit in all of the latest news onto our stand and into our theatre. But as the fitters start building the stand down at Olympia, we’ve realised now is the time to finalise everything else

As promised in my, “Big announcement coming on New Years Day!” post back on December 18th, it is 8:00 am PST on New Year’s Day and here is the big announcement to kick off the New Year!  For the first time ever , Microsoft is expanding the 50%* off Up-To-Date discount to include TWO prior versions on both Microsoft Office Professional and Microsoft Windows worldwide and this offer will be available until June 30, 2010!  (If you see “N-2”, “N” is the current version and “-2” means two prior versions)  What this means is that millions of customers running older versions of Microsoft Office Professional and Microsoft Windows will now be able to take advantage of the Up-To-Date discount available through the Open Value Subscription Program to get 50%* off their Year 1 payments!  So who qualifies for this offer? For Microsoft Office Professional Plus: Before the Office 2010 launch:  Companies with OEM, Retail, or Volume licenses for Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, Office 2003 Professional, or Office XP Professional After the Office 2010 launch: Companies with OEM, Retail, or Volume licenses for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 or Office 2003 Professional For Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade: Companies with OEM, Retail, or Volume licenses for Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Business or Windows XP Professional What you get: 50%* off your 1st year OVS payment for Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade or Microsoft Office Professional for every qualifying N-1 or N-2 license you have.

The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit on Channel 9 content is designed to help developers get started building solutions, from add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform. For example developing BI Applications with Office 2010 ! Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 makes this easy. There is also downloadable version of the training courses including Hands On Labs for all the training units!  

Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy.

Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Workshop includes videos and presentations.

What if I told you that now you can save your clients up to 20% on their Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 purchases and they can receive the upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 when it releases, all included?  That’s right, through the “ Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion ,” your clients can get the best of both worlds right now.  For starters, they can get access to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 to use in their businesses today at up to a 20% savings.  Then, when Microsoft Office 2010 releases, they will get access to the new version at that time for their business!  In addition to this, they can also get access to other great benefits* such as: Ability to spread their payments over 3 years Training vouchers to use to send employees to get trained on their Microsoft software E-Learning courses that provide access to self-paced, interactive training that is developed by Microsoft experts Rights to install Microsoft Office on a home computer in addition to your work computer And more… * Additional benefits included will vary based on licensing program purchases are made through and quantity of qualifying licenses acquired. Find out all about the “ Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion ,” that you can use with your clients to help them save money today and get more from tomorrow by clicking the link to the “ Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion ,” on the Microsoft Partner Portal. Like this?  Share it with others: Thank you and have a wonderful day, Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER and RSS Global Partner Experience Lead Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights Bookmark on: MSDN , TechNet , and Expression Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Office , Office 2007 , Office 2010 , savings , promotions , offers , sale , upgrade , training , voucher , eLearning , Eric Ligman , Open License , Open Value , Software Assurance , licensing del.icio.us Tags: Microsoft , Office , Office 2007 , Office 2010 , savings , promotions , offers , sale , upgrade , training , voucher , eLearning , Eric Ligman , Open License , Open Value , Software Assurance , licensing

I’m really happy to announce the release of the 3 rd CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office ! So what did we do in this CTP? Well, there were three main improvements we made to the SDK: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility support General improvements based on your feedback Semantic Level Validation Support Let’s go back to the Open XML SDK architecture diagram I showed you when we first announced the Open XML SDK : As mentioned in a previous post , the April 2009 CTP of the Open XML SDK added schema level validation support for Office 2007 Open XML files. In the August 2009 CTP, one of the big things we added is semantic level validation support for Office 2007 Open XML files: Semantic level validation goes beyond restrictions or rules defined by schemas.

Have you watched the “Official Trailer for Office 2010: The Movie”?…( read more )

Have you watched the “Official Trailer for Office 2010: The Movie”?…( read more )