Both USA Today and ZDNet posted some articles on the expected release date... Ballmer is now expected to make a major Office related announcement on Monday as Microsoft kicks off MG http://www.zdnet.com/when-and-how-will-users-get-the-next-version-of-microsofts-office-7000000871/ http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-07-12/microsoft-office-15/56173368/1 My speculation remains the same, beta will be available next week, RTM end of 2012 and GA end of Q1 2013
Office 15, Office 365 and few other updates from the Microsoft WPC
Looks like some people will be fired after the yesterday's microphone fiasco at the WPC... Steve Ballmer's microphone malfunctioned during his entire keynote. Eventually he had to go through four (4!) microphones until the production staff could get him one that worked ... Steve, who by the way looked almost freaky with how much weight … Continue reading Office 15, Office 365 and few other updates from the Microsoft WPC
Windows 8 will be RTM august 7th…
GA in October.
Office 15 (wave 15) beta to be released in July
As heard from a senior Microsoft executive, the highly anticipated beta of the product is expected to be released mid to late July.
How to add images or logos to a PowerView dashboard
One of the strange functionality gaps in PowerView is lack of support of images. In other words, one can easily add a text box to the dashboard, but unfortunately there is no easy way to add a company logo to the dashboard, which means that yet again we have to resort to a work around. This … Continue reading How to add images or logos to a PowerView dashboard
Scorecards in PowerView
Scorecards are not natively supported in PowerView, which is very unfortunate to say the least.. Fortunately there is a work around. Since I am writing this on a plane, I will just provide a high level description of how to get it done... First, one needs to implement add a calculated column that will have … Continue reading Scorecards in PowerView
How to limit values in PivotTable filters in Excel
Excel 2010 is tightly integrated with SharePoint which allows users to author their reports in Excel and then simply save them in SharePoint so that they can be subsequently rendered to everybody else as a web page using Excel Services. Unfortunately, not all features of Excel can be rendered; some of them generate warnings but … Continue reading How to limit values in PivotTable filters in Excel
SharePoint Chart Web Part
Here is a good introductory article for the SharePoint Chart Web part. I have not see this web part used that much, although, there is one feature that I think makes this data visualization vehicle critical for certain types of reporting. I am of course talking about being able to show a Sales Pipeline Funnel like this: Few pros … Continue reading SharePoint Chart Web Part
SQL Reporting on Azure goes GA, PowerView not available in cloud
Microsoft has just announced that Windows Azure SQL Reporting is Generally Available. A quick glance on the Guidelines and Limitations reveals that the released functionality is mainly based on the SQL Server 2008 R2 stack, which means that PowerView is not available in the cloud yet.
Bubble Charts in Excel and Excel Services
Creating Bubble Charts is one of the biggest challenges in Excel and Excel Services with respect to data visualization. Microsoft made it very intuitive in PowerView and very not intuitive in Excel. Frankly, the way this functionality is implemented in Excel makes it practically unusable. Rumor has it that this area is getting a lot … Continue reading Bubble Charts in Excel and Excel Services
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