In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Inter­op­er­ability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its propri­etary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been acces­sible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my under­standing is minimal at best), but […]

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Now this is inter­esting. Comments from Google’s president of the enter­prise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs.’” He acknowl­edged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than Google Mail or Calendar. “We know it. We wouldn’t ask people […]

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As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do my work […]

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Bill Kennedy’s getting it done at Energized Accounting, a relatively new blog hosted by Google’s Blogger that so far has been host to some inspi­ra­tional posts for me. The latest is all about a favourite topic of mine, data visual­ization: If you want effective commu­ni­ca­tions, you have to take respon­si­bility for both the sending and […]

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This is probably the type of thing I should be blogging about. The phrase “right in my wheel­house” comes to mind. The inter­section of several of my favourite things: accounting, technology, and social networks. Microsoft has announced a new “community” around Dynamics Live specif­i­cally for accounting and finance profes­sionals. The site isn’t named yet but […]

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