{"id":40,"date":"2008-04-28T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/new-office-labs-site\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:30:16","slug":"new-office-labs-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/new-office-labs-site\/","title":{"rendered":"New Office Labs site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/stevecla01\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Clayton<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/stevecla01\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/officelabs-com-is-live.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">pointing out<\/a> that the Office Labs site has gone live.&nbsp; It looks like there are some great tools to try out there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Tablet PC&#8217;s and having just installed <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/InkSeine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">InkSeine<\/a>, I have to say it&#8217;s very cool.&nbsp; I use OneNote quite a bit to take notes in meetings, so apps like this always catch my eye.&nbsp; The GIU is easy to use and I like access to search results.&nbsp; I can easily see myself missing some of the functionality when I use the full blown OneNote app &#8211; if you&#8217;re using a pen why would you ever need drop down menus?&nbsp; There are a few things missing at the moment, but hopefully they&#8217;ll get added over time.<\/p>\n<p>If only HP would make an up to date version of their old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TC1100\" target=\"_blank\">TC1100<\/a> slate tablet!<\/p>\n<p>The other stand-out thing for me was <a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.microsoft.com\/Pedia\/pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SharePointPedia<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know there was talk some time back about making Sharepoint the way MS presented communities for products.&nbsp; The idea being each product team&nbsp; would have a Sharepoint site under sharepoint.microsoft.com with forums etc.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure how far that initiative got, the only other site I&#8217;ve seen there is for <a href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.microsoft.com\/sharepoint\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sharepoint<\/a> itself, but the &#8216;pedia site has always had pretty good content.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>With this sort of site I guess a lot depends on how many people find it and use it.&nbsp; Having worked with SharePoint in the past and seeing how quickly best practice evolves and changes, any resource MS can use to speak directly to customers has to be good.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see this sort of &#8216;labs&#8217; stuff out there in the open.&nbsp; Hopefully there&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thank you to Steve Clayton for pointing out that the Office Labs site has gone live.&nbsp; It looks like there are some great tools to try out there. I&#8217;m a big fan of Tablet PC&#8217;s and having just installed InkSeine, I have to say it&#8217;s very cool.&nbsp; I use OneNote quite a bit to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/new-office-labs-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Office Labs site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[53,13,93,94,48,95],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-hp","tag-microsoft","tag-office","tag-onenote","tag-sharepoint","tag-tablet-pc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}