Yesterday, the 2007 Microsoft Office system preview site went live at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview . It’s so gratifying for me to see the deliverables that I had spent a few months working on finally being published on the Web and available for potentially millions of people to leverage. I...

I just sent out an internal e-mail announcement to several hundred technical sales people re: the completion of my first major deliverable -- the Microsoft Office “12” SharePoint Servers and Windows SharePoint Services “v3” Technology Briefing slidedeck, which contains a technical overview of the feature...

Well, the Office “12” Beta 1 Technology Preview Program has officially started , and 10,000 lucky customers and partners are in the process of downloading the bits from our BetaPlace site. Already, the early press coverage has been very positive: PC Magazine: Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1: Extreme...

Yesterday’s all-hands meeting of the IWPMG (that’s Information Worker Product Management Group) was my first, and I was particularly impressed by Chris Capossela , who heads our organization. Chris reviewed our FY06 business objectives and Q1 scorecard in a very succinct and straightforward way (i.e...