2 posts tagged “office”

Let me first start off by YES, surprisingly enough, there are highlights at a Microsoft event.

First off, the event's keynote was done by Bill Veghte. He is the

Corporate Vice President, North America

His profile page (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/veghte/default.mspx) was Published: February 1, 2004 | Updated: February 1, 2004. So, nothing new for 3 years. Go to go Bill. But enough Microsoft bashing. Here is some of the cool stuff:

Screenshot_flip_3d

Flip 3D allows you to "ALT-TAB" through windows and actually see the window you are looking for. If there is movement in that window, you will see it in Flip 3D. Yeah, cool this is alright, but it only works if you can run Areo, and at the moment. I can't.

Screenshot_productivity_instantsearch

This search bar allows you to quickly type what you want, hit enter and you're there. Think of AutoComplete, add in the ability to search inside documents, across attached storage, network shares, databases, programs, emails, and contacts just by pressing your windows key and starting typing. One word. Awesome.

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This (I know you can barely see it) is the MS Office 2007 "Ribbon". It's quite the awesome piece of work. It automagically changes to suite what you are doing. No more looking around for options and buttons and settings. It's all at your fingertips and quickly displayed.







That's it for now. I have only hit 4 points on 3 pages of notes, so there will be much more to come. Stay tuned.

mubix

Well, I made it. I get to go to Launch Tour 2007. I will have a lot more about Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows SharePoint 2007 as well. Just a couple things about the current talk I am currently in.

Windows Vista introduces:

• 2400 GPOs (+800 from XP / Win 2003)
• Policies are XML based which lends to third party updates and changes.
• Device restriction: (Which means you can disallow USB devices. You can get it granular as well, where you can allow USB keyboards, mouses, etc... But not USB flash drives. You can even get down to the level of exact device name. Such as USB\SanDisk1GB_ )
• This is not restricted to USB, this is all devices.
• With GPOs you can configure when your computers turn off the hard drives, and monitors. Even on desktops. This is a huge feature for large enterprises that die when the power bill comes in.
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