This week comes out of a six-part series on location in New Orleans, and covers the enhancements to touch and immersive experiences in the new Office. Jeremy Chapman is along with Valley Krzypow and Tim Bakke Office experiences across screens of all sizes - from cell phones to large panel displays show. On the way they put some lesser known features in PowerPoint, tour the GeoFlow preview for Excel and show the capabilities of the 82 "Perceptive Pixel (PPI) display.
Jeremy: This week we are from the TechEd New Orleans comes to you and takes the garage series on the journey. We have infused the local culture and scenery, such as Office to put to the test. In the coming weeks you will see real-time implementation, using Office Web apps, we will test whether Office can be productive in Louisiana and we take another turn on providing online and offline racing-. But this week, we discuss with Office.
Valley: Devices take more and more shapes, sizes, and input methods. Accordingly holds office on desktop applications, Web apps, the best experience delivers everywhere developed apps for Windows 8, and across other platforms. Yoni demonstrates some of the capabilities in the garage series live in April, but we decided, a bit deeper under the hood in this episode go. The combination of Windows 8 investments in touch APIs, and met up with Office investment in fluid and intuitive touch experience, unlocks new experiences and scenarios. If you use new OneNote for Windows 8 and the radial menu or the Outlook Web app on a touch screen, even simple actions touch feel like scrolling, the they built were with a surface, which sticks to your fingers and a fluid movements throughout.
Jeremy: So it was great to welcome Valley, as the host team in the Office product to show some of the new and existing features, touch, as trigger can use to touch icons and create the new animation, merge forms, Slide Navigator and zoom slide. Watch the show for some awesome recipes, that Valley found with local delicacies.
A question that we hear is much like the perceptive pixel (PPI) display, which we, in the garage series use when compared to other large-screen devices. So we brought Tim Bakke PPI team to the talk about the capabilities of the device and showing how it used to 3D renderings, visualize the GeoFlow preview for Excel, OneNote app for Windows 8 and the new PowerPoint.
Next week we will the next functions show back from New Orleans as we Office Web apps and test, whether one can write local Blues Band song in real time, offline use of various devices, browsers, and even the word desktop application.
See you then!
Jeremy and Valley
Additional resources:
Touch-Guide for the new Office
Perceptive pixel from the Microsoft homepage
Use the new Office with a twist (next Office blog)
Garage Series season 1-blog archive
About the garage series hosts:
During the day Jeremy Chapman at Microsoft, is responsible for optimizing the future of Office client and service delivery as a preliminary deployment starring. Jeremy's background in application compatibility, building automation was deployment tools and infrastructure reference architectures for the prioritization of new Office Enterprise features like the latest click-to-run installation of fundamental importance. At night, he is zealous and serial linguist a car modding. Valley began his path at Microsoft as the product planners PowerPoint and graphics. Today, he serves as the technical product marketing manager for Word and PowerPoint. Valley persistence with PowerPoint through different roles is no coincidence. A passionate, enjoys Valley design, news, stories and pictures. His creations include a collection of over 200 icons in PowerPoint and its very own handmade PC Messenger bag.
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