MS Office 2007 development possibilities
Just got out of a session on the new features for developers in Outlook 2007. I am very excited about it.
Can’t wait until MS releases this – it will allow me to do things that have previously been deep level hacks in a simple and supported way. For example we can now customize the Outlook form to add a Skype section there.
Also we could add a custom task pane to Outlook both in the inspector and in the explorer windows. A Skype task-pane would let use make Skype much more obvious and accessible in the environment where you work. The custom task panes also exist in the rest of Office too.
A key finding for me in this conference is that MS is focusing very heavily on collaboration. Communication is not a primary focus but only comes into play in the collaboration context.
For business users (which is a large portion of our users) this is relevant thinking. This is without a doubt an area where we need help from 3rd party developers and ISV:s.
The Skype ActiveX components will of course help with making that kind of integration easier – but we do have a lot of work to do.
I have purchased with paypal every service skype has i have nice little emails that say the service is delivered yet my skype say nothign is activated the staff here is eiother imncapable of deakling with this or simply does not give a damm i cannot recommend this service until customer make that paid customer support exists right now its a mahjor joke. user northwith and no you cant leave me a mesage even though i paid for that too.
Hi,
Let me assure you – we do care! We also apologize for the trouble.
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