Wayne's Microsoft BlogPowerPoint and OfficeArt funIs Washington better than California- April 7, 2004 Someone I know is considering moving up to the Seattle area and asked me about my Washington experience. Other friends of mine who are considering Microsoft actually ask me this a lot so I thought I'd write an entry about it. Here are some general impressions after my summer internship in Redmond and after talking to some Washington people, though keep in mind I've lived in California over 20 years and in Washington only a quarter of a year. Pros: No state income tax. This is pretty big chunk.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/07/108906.aspx Entourage history- April 6, 2004 Omar Shahine and Dan Crevier wrote some very interesting articles about the history of Entourage becoming a Mac Office application.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/06/108291.aspx Surprises- April 6, 2004 Microsoft released the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset yesterday under an open source license, though this is nothing crazy new since the company has released Rotor and even Windows source under its Shared Source program. Still, this is the first code Microsoft has released under an OSS-approved license. It feels really weird to see something by Microsoft up on SourceForge. But then again, after seeing Steve Balmer and Scott McNealy cracking jokes up on stage together last week,...http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/06/108287.aspx Positioning objects in Word- April 5, 2004 If you have objects like shapes or pictures in your Word document, and then move the document text around, it may not be clear why your objects are repositioned the way they are. In Word, there are two primary ways objects can be positioned. In line with the text - The object is positioned just like normal text is positioned. If you insert text in front of the object, it moves forward just like the rest of the text does. Floating - The object is "anchored" somewhere and...http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/05/107610.aspx |