microsoft office platform and business line software

As products like SharePoint continue to mature alongside the more long-standing Office client products, I’m confident that these kinds of experiences will only continue to deepen. First, there is an increased focus around the end-to-end collaborative experiences and business workflows rather than simply on tasks such as creating a document or e-mailing a file. This larger change is the result of two major categories of smaller shifts in the Office platform itself. However, looking at the current and emerging versions of the Office platform, I think that this is now changing in a dramatic (and much needed) way. It seems as though these applications help us perform the same kinds of tasks more efficiently-rather than change the tasks that we need to perform. For example, I’m writing this document using Word 2010, and while I really like the new version (a lot, actually), in the end, it is still a word processing application that I use in much the same way that I used WordPerfect 5.1 back around 1990.

Office productivity applications have been around for a while now-after all, wasn’t office productivity one of the main drivers behind the personal computer revolution? However, if you look at the features that have been added to various products as they have matured, with a couple notable exceptions such as OLE, it seems as though at the core, office applications haven’t really changed all that much since their inception. For example, Steve Fox provides a first look at SharePoint tooling in Visual Studio 2010, while Eric White walks through techniques for dynamically generating documents from SharePoint using XML content controls. We still have a good distance to travel, but we’re getting closer. This is an area of software development that I have always believed holds tremendous potential in terms of ensuring that we are focused on solving the right problems-those being the business problems.Īnd with each new release, it’s nice to see improvements made to the platform rather than just to the applications that help to realize this potential.

NET Framework 4 that will continue improving the experience of creating business applications that run on the Microsoft Office platform. In this month’s issue of MSDN Magazine, we begin taking a look at some of the new features and tools in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft.

Volume 24 Number 10 Editor’s Note - The Capability-Delivery Business

Microsoft office platform and business line software