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5/26/2009

Introducing Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD)

Hello!I’m Bhavesh Chauhan and hopefully you’ve already downloaded my Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) add-in for Outlook. FAD is a little add-in that checks your email before you send it to see if you’ve forgotten to “attach an attachment”. It uses a small set of customizable keywords to do its detection. If it detects that you may have forgotten to “attach an attachment” it pops up a dialog that... (read more)

Posted at 12:24 PM by Bhavesh | Category: Grassroots; Forgotten Attachment Detector | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (8)

4/28/2009

Touch version of pptPlex

When we wanted to try out the new multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, pptPlex seemed like a good application in which to do some experimentation. We liked the touch interaction and thought we would share this updated version of pptPlex with anybody out there who has a multi-touch enabled device running Windows 7. Take a look at this video and keep reading if you are interested in getting access... (read more)

Posted at 10:59 AM by Jonas (Office Labs) | Category: pptPlex | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (3)

3/29/2009

A Walk Through the Productivity Future Vision Video

There has been a lot of buzz around the Microsoft Productivity Future Vision video since it was unveiled by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division. Many people have been asking for more information about the scenarios shown in the video, the underlying technologies, and how the video relates to Microsoft’s overall vision and ongoing product development roadmap.
In response to many of... (read more)

Posted at 10:48 AM by Paul (Office Labs) | Category: Envisioning; Office Labs; Productivity Future Vision | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (5)

3/20/2009

Survey for Canvas for OneNote

Hello! It’s only been a short while since we posted Canvas for OneNote, and we love the feedback we’ve been getting (the good, the bad, and the suggestions). We haven’t been able to respond to every post, but we are capturing all the feedback and using it to influence future projects here in the lab. To that end, we’ve created a survey (oooh, don’t you love those?). This type of data is very valuable... (read more)

Posted at 12:01 PM by Nathan (Office Labs) | Category: Canvas for OneNote | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (8)

2/27/2009

Productivity Re-Imagined

Today, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop unveiled Microsoft’s vision for how we re-imagine productivity in our daily lives. In his speech you’ll see Stephen communicate the latest ideas and technical aspirations from across the company. It’s an exciting day as we go public with this vision and we hope you will take a moment to watch the speech. Over the last year we’ve worked closely... (read more)

Posted at 10:46 AM by Ian Sands (MS) | Category: Happenings; Envisioning; Office Labs; Productivity Future Vision | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (3)

Introducing Canvas for OneNote

Hi! I’m Nathan Fish, (Senior Program Manager, amateur photographer, canvas fanatic). Within Office Labs, we’ve been exploring alternate interactions with software that take advantage of the natural human capacity for spatial recognition in order to help users organize their digital belongings in much the same way that they organize their physical belongings. For example, pptPlex explored how presenting... (read more)

Posted at 6:53 AM by Nathan (Office Labs) | Category: Canvas for OneNote | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (8)

1/2/2009

Exploring Design

Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark: In October 2008, Nelle Steele, a researcher at Office Labs, was invited to speak at a gathering of Danish Design Anthropologists at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was a precursor to the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference which seeks to better understand people, what they do, and why they do it for the purpose of designing... (read more)

Posted at 12:55 AM by OLDOTCOM | Category: Happenings | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

12/19/2008

Controlling pptPlex using a 3D camera

Ever since I did the Nintendo Wii experiment a while back, I’ve been interested in exploring other new ways speakers can interact with their presentations. Ideally, the presenter would not need to hold any hardware and natural gestures would be used to navigate the presentation. I recently learned that Microsoft Research was experimenting with 3D cameras, and I thought it was worth seeing if a 3D camera... (read more)

Posted at 2:03 PM by Jonas (Office Labs) | Category: pptPlex | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (6)

12/15/2008

IxDA

Millennials entering the work force have extensive gaming behaviors and skills, and their boundaries between work, fun, and personal life are increasingly blurred. To explore on this trend, speakers at Seattle’s IxDA October 2008 meeting, hosted by Microsoft Office Labs and Microsoft Engineering Excellence and UX Central, focused on how the traits of game play might influence the productivity tools... (read more)

Posted at 9:30 PM by OLDOTCOM | Category: Happenings | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

Touchwall

The Microsoft CEO Summit is a premier forum that unites the world’s business leaders to discuss and debate the most pressing economic, political, social and technological trends shaping the global business landscape. As part of his final CEO Summit keynote address, titled “The Next Wave of Business Productivity and the Challenge of Continual Innovation,” Bill Gates showcased TouchWall and Plex technology.... (read more)

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