And I forgot. They even threw in a free copy of Vista...
Gary
Gary Schnabl wrote:
I breeched Microsoft's defenses at Cobo Hall today after a five-mile
bus ride downtown (braving the bitter cold during a winter-storm
warning and scored big. Actually, being a MS Office 2007 beta tester,
MS invited me to participate in its Vista and Office Professional 2007
and Exchange Server launch today at the Detroit convention center, the
same facility which housed the North American International Auto Show
late in January.
Well, they even fed me breakfast and lunch for their day-long seminar
and bestowed a bunch of freebies unto me. The seminars were very well
run and had broken into two major groups after a common 105-minute
keynote speech: IT pros and developers. The head of IT at Ford and the
head US honcho at HP were also some of its eight speakers at the AM
keynote address. Being a embedded-microcontroller (Motorola/Freescale
Semiconductor) developer of sorts, I attended the latter group.
The free booty: MS Office Groove 2007 and MS Office Professional 2007,
a CD-ROM--a Microsoft's "Work in a World Without Limits" resource
guide, a mini CD-ROM from CommVault titled "Unified Data
Management," a "Microsoft on NetApp" CD-ROM, a "ready for a new day"
technical keynote and video demonstrations CD-ROM, a "Microsoft
Office 2007 Labs and Resources" CD-ROM, a "Windows Vista Labs and
Resources" CD-ROM, and a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Labs" CD-ROM.
In all seriousness, MS Office Pro 2007 and Vista seem both to be very
powerful apps from a developer's POV. One presenter for the Office
developer segment made a slight barb at a "competitor" concerning Open
XML.
Maybe after a while, I might be able to answer some Office
Professional 2007 questions, if any are presented.
Gary
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
If you have MS Word 2007, you might like to try this plug-in and tell
us how it goes reading and writing ODT files.
OpenXML Translator (ODF Add-in for Word), Release 1 (2007-02-02)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter/
"Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge
between the [Microsoft] Open XML Formats and OpenDocument Format
(ODF). As the first component of this initiative, the ODF Add-in for
Microsoft Word 2007 allows to Open & Save ODF documents in Word."
--Jean
