Office Devcon
The Microsoft Office Developer’s Conference will take place in Redmond next week, March 21-23. It’s going to be an exciting event for everyone involved with Office 2007, especially the developers who are working to integrate their applications with the Office clients or build new solutions on top of the Office servers.
It’s a sold-out event, so you can’t attend unless you’ve already signed up. But you can register here to watch Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene (VP, Office Server) give their keynote presentations via a live MSDN webcast. Here’s the official blurb for what Bill and Kurt will be talking about: “The 2007 Microsoft Office system is a breakthrough solution platform that includes clients, servers, services, and tools. Built on XML and a set of new extensibility technologies, it gives you the solution building blocks you need to meet today’s business demands more quickly than building from scratch.”
Buried in that paragraph is a hint of something I’m extremely excited about, which will be announced by Bill in the keynote. It’s a project I’ve been working on around the clock the last few days, with the help of a bunch of other people. After Bill makes the announcement, I’m going to have a lot more to say right here, but for now it’s a secret. Shhh!
This entry was posted on Saturday, March 18th, 2006 at 3:05 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on March 20, 2006 at 5:36 am Tarun wrote:
Dear Doug,
I hope you are having a wonderful time at the OfficeDev Conference. Would be waiting to hear about your Secret.
Doug, as and when you get free from the devcon, Please let me know as to how to get my hands on the Office 12 Beta Release. as you know we would be working on the File Formats, so we would need to have the beta Release in order to make docx, xlsx and pptx files. We would need as many samples as possible.
Thanks
Best Wishes and Regards
Tarun
on March 21, 2006 at 7:38 am Geeking Microsoft : Office Dev Con wrote:
[…] Office Dev Con Getting to the Microsoft campus for the first time last night was pretty exciting. Being dark, I couldn’t see much outside of the conference center. Arriving back this morning, it was, as I expected: freaking awesome. Those of you who work here, live here or have been here ad nauseum, grant me my moment of geeky Microsoft joy. The buildings all rock and the “feel” of the campus is great. Everyone is very nice. Although not part of the conference I am going to see if I can scheme my way in to a tour and the Microsoft store! <heh> Keynote is coming up with some promised exciting news so I will post more later. Published Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:33 AM by ntpro […]