Just published program! No, not Office. The new Office blog phone app!

Keep with our latest posts by downloading our recently updated Office blog phone app for Windows phones. It automatically shows you the headlines for new contributions which we publish.

There really good reason, the updated app is another get: we only four new blogs to along with release of Customer Preview of the next version of Office.

Here are the blogs that we added:

Office next: a place where one hears of the engineers that create the new Office. They discuss the improvements that we make, the designs we choose, the and the data and feedback that informs our decisions.Office news-the home page for Microsoft Office announcements! In the next few months, this is the place where we will exchange news in the context of Microsoft Office Division.Visio & project thesis, that two blogs are, where you can learn about the new Visio and project, and information about the current version.

The Office blog app is a fast and free download , if you the app yet. If you already have, you will see an option to the update it on the market. Try it out!

Another way to stay in touch

Really is an easy way to stay up to date one of our RSS feeds subscribe to. Each Office app blog has a, and hence the Office blog home page. If you subscribe, you will receive the most important posts of the blogs. If want to keep you with the latest news and technical information about a specific app, sign up for their RSS feed.

Subscribe to is pretty simple - click the subscribe button in the upper right corner on the blog home page or any page on an app blog:

 

As soon as you start, set us, we would like to start tuning in to your opinion. Write to comment on our blogs or visit our Microsoft Office Facebook page.

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Adobe Reader (10.1) now available for Windows Phone 7.5

Adobe Reader (10.1) now available for Windows Phone 7.5 « Reader Mobile function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} .recentcomments a{display:inline !important;padding:0 !important;margin:0 !important;}adobe.com      Reader Mobile / Adobe Reader (10.1) now available for Windows Phone 7.5by rahulban  

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Webinar: Office on a Windows Phone

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In this week's webinar, you'll see how you can edit and view your Office documents on a Windows Phone, and how OneNote and documents stored on SkyDrive work on other mobile devices..

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

A tour of the Office Hub on a Windows PhoneEditing and working with documents on a mobile deviceWorking with documents stored on SkyDrive on other mobile devicesWorking with OneNote on other mobile devices

References for this webinar:

Office Mobile

SkyDrive and Web Apps

Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series.

--Doug Thomas

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A quick look at what it took to build an Office Blog app for Windows Phone 7

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 This post is written Craig Kerwien, the Director of Site Management in the Office Division Product Management Group; he helped bring this app to life.

Building an Office Blog app for the Windows Phone began as a weekend DIY project. Although many people are familiar with RSS readers as a way to monitor blog activity (learn more about the Office Blog RSS feeds here), I was looking for a quicker way to monitor and stay up to date on the latest news from the Office Blog.

While rummaging around MSDN for code examples, I stumbled upon Chris Koenig's Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools, which is an easy way for anyone to create and publish a Windows Phone app for your favorite school.  Chris is a Microsoft Windows Phone Evangelist based in Texas, who developed a code package so beginning developers can easily build and publish a full-featured app by adjusting just a few settings. I thought this would be a great way to develop an app for the Office blogs.

 In the span of a few hours on a Saturday, I had a working app. Here's all I had to do:

Installed the Windows Phone SDK for the first time, and loaded up the Starter Kit project.Created and fine-tuned the logos and color scheme so that they shared the same look and feel as the blog's design.Organized the app pages and blog feeds for each of the Office programsRemoved pages and code that related to building an app for a school.

 At this point, I could have declared the app done and published it to the Marketplace under my name. But I had higher ambitions:  I wanted to publish the app under the Microsoft name, which would give it the Microsoft 'seal of approval' and provide broad visibility as an example for others to use and build from. We think it's cool that anyone can create a simple app for their blog using the same code that we used for the Office Blog app. So we kicked off the internal review process that all Microsoft products must undergo before they are released to the public.

I'll spare everyone the blow-by-blow details it takes to shepherd a Windows Phone app through the quality assurance reviews at Microsoft, which cover privacy, geopolitics, accessibility, Trustworthy Computing, and of course security reviews. Suffice to say it took longer than a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, and I think the effort was worth it.

Let me take this opportunity to thank Chris for developing the Windows Phone Starter Kit for School and helping me make code adjustments during code review. He recently developed another Starter Kit just for RSS-based applications, such as blogs. I encourage other blog owners to explore it.

If you want to try it out, the Starter Kit is free, and so are the development tools. To publish to the Windows Phone Marketplace, all you need to do is purchase an annual subscription at App Hub @ $99 USD/yr.

And, of course, we hope you'll use the app to monitor the news and information from the Office Blog.  Enjoy! 

-- Craig Kerwien

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Working with Nothing but a Windows Phone, Part 1 (Messages & Social)

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If you wake up in the middle of nowhere--or have to work regardless of the weather--you can get a lot done with a Windows Phone.  That's because it gives you lots of ways to reach people.  In this video I show you some of them --including how Windows Phone lets you text by voice, send group emails, and stay completely connected to Facebook. Watch:

In case you want to know more about the features of a Windows Phone, click these links:

 

Live TilesGroupsMe TileFacebook & Social NetworkingContact HistoryVoice CommandsLocal ScoutPin to StartAnd the three buttons that can get you to many of these features

Stay tuned, part 2 is next week.

--Doug Thomas

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Working with Nothing but a Windows Phone, Part 2 (Office Mobile)

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A restaurant can become a workplace using Windows Phone. With a built-in version of Office, communications software (Lync), and a way to access your files stored online (Office 365, SharePoint, or SkyDrive), you can see how to attend a meeting and even handle an emergency while eating your lunch.

How did I get into this mess? See the first part of the video to explore more about the Windows Phone.

Lync is an instant communications and meeting service for businesses. It offers instant messaging and conferencing with voice and video. Recently Lync Mobile has been released for Windows Phone, Android and iPhone.

If you want to know more about the features of a Windows Phone, click these links:

--Doug Thomas

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