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What are You Looking for in a Cloud Solution?

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Microsoft recently partnered with WIRED magazine to ask the WIRED.com community what they think is important when looking at cloud solutions. The answers are what everyone should expect from good business solutions:

High security standards.A familiar experience regardless of the device you're working on. Compatibility with the systems you already have in place. The ability to work where and how you want.

These are all things that you should not just expect but demand from your cloud solution.

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Take a look at Office 365 in comparison with these answers:

Cutting edge security that meets leading EU and US standards, the highest level of privacy, plus built-in anti-virus and spam fighting technology. Office 365 has it. The familiar and intuitive Office experience no matter whether you're using your phone, PC, or web browser. Yes, got that too. Ability to work on- and off-line. Check.Email, calendars, shared document editing, creation, and storage, web conferencing.

Yes, Office 365 is the right choice for businesses of all sizes.

Microsoft brings 20-plus years of experience to Office 365. Since our company was started we've been working closely with people and companies to understand their business needs and how they want to work. Despite being in the market for almost five years, Google Apps has struggled to gain real traction among businesses of all sizes due in part to the lack of functionality they offer.

So check out the results and weigh in. Do you agree with the WIRED community? What are you looking for in a cloud solution?

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Yes, it is possible to create nice looking spreadsheets

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For the last couple years I’ve been meaning to pull together some of the tips that I’ve learned working on the Excel team about how to make nice looking spreadsheets.  Well, last week, Rob Collie (a previous Excel Program Manager, and now CTO at Pivotstream and author of PowerPivotPro.com) beat me to it with his post “In the Browser, Aesthetics Yield a Greater Return.”  I had a quick chat with Rob and he was nice enough to let me pile on with my tips, which got posted to his blog on Tuesday.  So, rather than spoil any of the surprise here, head on over to PowerPivotPro and check out 15 Spreadsheet Formatting Tips.  And, while you’re there, you’ll definitely want to check out PowerPivot - it can take your Excel to a whole new level!

Go there now: 15 Spreadsheet Formatting Tips

Feel free to post feedback on PowerPivotPro or here, I’ll try to watch both.

-- Dan Battagin

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Help: what you are looking for?

Last week was the idea of the scenario based help and asked to input on what best for you to work. Further reflection, the post was a bit jargony and stilted so I try again.

The most help is written for a specific function or procedure, such as this article on crop pictures in Publisher 2007. But it shows only a part of a larger task that may included crop a picture, insert add captions and effects, alignment of it on the page and so on.

Here is an example of a road map style article on manipulation of images in Publisher 2010, that insert with the image, crop, add to a shape and finally the reset image remove any formatting that you have added.

In the next version of Office, we are planning, more of the contents of the help topics in workflow formats deliver scenarios, done little, to get an end-to-end process that display more than one procedure that successfully to basic tasks.

These workflow scenarios can take various forms. You may be small stories with characters, art, as my author parodies only with more emphasis on the procedures. Help scenarios may roadmaps help article, as this Access 2007 timetable for the creation of a form, a collection of links to to separate help articles for each of the procedures in the workflow. Or they could be given in the form of video such as the Office intervention series.

A whole task from start to finish to explain can be difficult especially when how the task is declared what will the reader does not match.

So, my survey is the question to you:

If you know me to others please log ideas to the comments.

--Bob deLaubenfels

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