Happy new Office "12" year!

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I have given my blog a long winter vacation and here I am back and quite excited to start writing more news related with Office "12." This is going to be a great year for Microsoft with Windows Vista and Office "12" being shipped; everybody here at Microsoft is starting this year full on energy, enthusiasm, and hard work for all of you.

I am currently working on the content plan for MSDN and Office "12" and the current wish list that I am building contains a proposed set of technical articles, columns, quickstarts, recommended books, white papers, code samples, screen casts, and product team video interviews (we are working close to Channel 9 to produce great videos that are valuable for Office developers). We are defining specific content items for each of the following products and features:

  • Access "12"
  • Excel "12"
  • InfoPath "12"
  • OneNote "12"
  • Outlook "12"
  • PowerPoint "12"
  • Project "12"
  • Visio "12"
  • Project Server "12"
  • SharePoint and Windows SharePoint Services "v3"
  • Ribbon UI Extensibility
  • Custom Task Panes
  • Managed COM add-ins
  • Office "12" Open XML Formats
  • XML in Office

and more...

If you have been reading Office "12" blogs (Brian Jones, Jensen Harris, David Gainer, Jeff Bell, and Brendan Busch have extraordinary Office "12"  blogs), you are enrolled to Office "12" Beta program (if you want to register go here), or you are just interested in what's new for developers in Office "12" and SharePoint, and if you have recommendations of articles, code samples, interviews or anything that you think is a must have for Office developers, please let me know. Write your own wish list and feel free to let us know what you and/or your customer would love to see and keep visiting this site to learn more about what's coming for Office "12."

I wish you all a great 2006 year full of happiness, health, work, and good things.

Have fun!