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• New Version of Xobni Adds Social Networking to Enhance Productivity

  I’m absolutely in love with the new enhancements made to Xobni.  They’ve added Facebook, Hoovers, and Yahoo Mail creating some interesting synergies in the way I manage my personal and business connections via Outlook.  Check out the review... Posted Nov 19 2008, 05:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Outlook, Cool, FreeAsInBeer, LookingGood, LetsBuyThem!

• Masses Rejoice: Xobni Goes Public Beta

  Xobni , the small San Francisco Bay start-up, has gone public with their Outlook, and now Yahoo Mail, plug-in.  If you recall, I wrote about Xobni a few months back.  Having been on the private beta, I can only say, that Xobni has really changed... Posted May 06 2008, 07:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Tools, Cool, FreeAsInBeer, LetsBuyThem!

• How To: Fix Outlook Data Corruption

  So I had a weird morning today.  My computer woke up from sleep a little grumpy, definitely not typical experience which is usually smooth as a baby’s bottom.   Anyway I fire up outlook and I’m greeted with an error that say... Posted May 02 2008, 11:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Tips, Tools, FreeAsInBeer, HowTo

• Office Binary Formats Released to the Public under Open Specification Promise

  Finally what the open-source community has been asking from Microsoft has come to fruition, we've released the Office Binary Format in it's entirety and put it under our IRREVOCABLE, GPL-compatible, legally binding Open Specification Promise .  This... Posted Feb 20 2008, 02:45 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Microsoft, OpenXML, Cool, IT, resources, LAMP, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer, LookingGood

• Office 2003 SP3 Legacy File Formats Disabled

  This is a public service announcement that by installing Office 2003 SP3, the ability to open and save older legacy file formats will be blocked.  The reason for this decision is strictly for security reasons.  Some older file formats including... Posted Jan 02 2008, 08:56 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, Deployment, Tools, OpenXML, resources, ServicePack, FreeAsInBeer

• Outlook and Search Server Christmas Webcasts

  I always get into the holiday mood late. While people graciously spend their Novembers shopping, feasting, and buying plane tickets to spend time with their loved ones, I get a head start in my procrastination efforts. The reality is I don't get into... Posted Dec 24 2007, 10:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Search, blogging, rant, FreeAsInBeer, GetALife, BritishCulture

• Office 2007 SP1 is Out - GoodBye Outlook Problems

  My colleague James O'Neill beat me to this one.  SP1 for Office is finally here, and none the sooner as I was ready to destroy my laptop and beat it with a sledgehammer because of the stability issues with Outlook. Funny story, a lot of the bad rap... Posted Dec 12 2007, 11:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Office, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, SP1, ServicePack, FreeAsInBeer

• Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

  So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting... Posted Nov 29 2007, 02:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Search, Windows, Platform, rant, resources, ocs, Laundry List, Unified Communcations, Op-Ed, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer

• Saving Loads of Money With Groove

  During the London roadshow, a gentleman came up to me and asked about a solution to allow CAD designers to synchronize jobs across two branch offices. Basically his problem was that the ADSL connection between the offices was too slow to easily transfer... Posted Oct 05 2007, 10:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Microsoft, Groove, IT, resources, Cartoons, Op-Ed, FreeAsInBeer

• Powershell and OneNote - Are You Geek Enough?

  I'll admit, when I saw OneNote and Powershell in the same headline, I was like WTF mate .  I started computing with command-line back with MSDOS, but somewhere between Windows XP and World of Warcraft, I just stopped caring about these outmoded... Posted Sep 30 2007, 11:27 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Microsoft, Powershell, Cool, OneNote, FreeAsInBeer, GetALife

• OneNote Web Exporter...*pst* It's Open Source

  Anyone who works with me knows that I'm a big OneNote fanatic!  Not only is it a great piece of software, it is a great development platform for ISVs.  One of the great things developers can do is tap into the OneNote API... Posted Sep 30 2007, 10:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Office, Microsoft, Tools, Cool, OneNote, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer