Hello from beautiful Vancouver.John Bristowe and I have been going across Canada the last few weeks in support of our
realDEVELOPMENT_06 tour. One of the most frequent questions we get asked is 'How do I get access to the betas?'. Well we have finished the betas of 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista and you can now
download or order the betas! (Please note that the availability of Windows Vista beta is limited.)
In this issue we take a close look at XPS the ‘Electronic Paper’ specification used in 2007 Microsoft Office system and in Windows Vista. This technology promises to simplify the process of printing and previewing documents as well as significantly improving the quality of the final output.
Have you ever needed to create and manipulate Office documents on the server? If you have then you will have either had to write directly to the binary file or automate the Office client applications on the server – an unsupported and risky option. Well now we have a brand new open format for Office documents based around zip compression and XML.
Patrick Tisseghem walks us through
the new format.
While the new UI on the client components is the first thing that you see when you try out the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2, that is just the tip of the iceberg. We have invested heavily on the server side components of 2007 Microsoft Office system. So in this issue Ted Pattison concludes the second part of
‘Building Portal Solutions’ . Also Ted goes
into detail about the architecture of SharePoint Services Version 3.
Jerome Carron
