As part of their major shift towards cloud services, and perhaps in direct response to Google Docs, Microsoft have announced at PDC 2008 plans to “deliver Office Web applications – lightweight versions of Office – through web browsers”.

This will give users web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote powered through Microsoft’’s Office Live service, with both ad-based and subscription offerings.

To learn more, please click here for the official announcement.

Thanks, once again, to Microsoft’s Steve Clayton for the information.

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If, like me, you”re too easily distracted from an important task by incoming email, this could be for you.

Microsoft OfficeLabs have released Email Prioritizer for Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server). This free add-in provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival and prioritises messages with a star rating system.

For more information, please visit the Email Prioritizer project page.

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Microsoft OfficeLabs have released pptPlex for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, a free add-in that allows you to show slides on a zoomable canvas, moving around the extended area to show groups of slides, individual slides or zoom in to display a particular section of a slide.

Video: An Overview of pptPlex

Please visit the pptPlex project page for further details.

Now, should I get Ian Mills to use pptPlex to explain his network diagram at the next Secondary Tech Forum? Feel free to comment below. J

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As Secondary Technical Forum regulars know, here at Schools ICT we”ve been using Microsoft OneNote 2007 for some time. We find it an invaluable tool for sharing meeting notes, not only with attendees but anyone else in the Unit who wishes to know what we”ve been discussing.

I spotted the following video clip on the Microsoft UK Schools News Blog and thought I”d share it with you. It demonstrates how OneNote 2007 is used in a Norwegian primary school. Notice how relaxed both the students and teacher are with the technology.

Video: OneNote Usage in Norwegian Schools

The author of the post asks the following question: “How does that compare to the teaching and learning in your school?”

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Microsoft UK is giving away free Office 2007 posters to schools.

Please click here to view the article on the Microsoft UK Schools Blog.

On an additional note, Capita test and support SIMS .net with Office 2007.

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