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Office 2007 UI & MS Blogs

If you are hearing lot about the new UI (Ribbon) in Office 2007 and dying to see more of it, visit these two sites: First is Jensen Harris Blog and the second MS Official preview Page.


Going Dark Theme in Office 2007
(Office 2007 Beta 1 Going Dark Theme – Copyright Microsoft Corporation)


MS Blogs


Seeing yet another useful blog from a MS staff, I am impressed by the new transparency Microsoft has embraced in the last two years. The single biggest way they seem to have done this is by using blog as an effective media to keep in touch with outside world. The other is their regular CTP (Community Technology Preview) builds of their upcoming software. The classic way of Beta 1, 2, 3, RC & Gold have lost their relevance in the super fast changing connected world.

March 10th, 2006 | Category: Microsoft | Leave a comment

Tamilnadu Electoral Rolls

With the State Assembly elections round the corner, the Election commission of India has released a website – containing Tamilnadu Election Rolls in its entirety. This includes all 30 districts in Tamilnadu State and the entire text is in local language (Tamil). This is a remarkable step in transparency and checking bogus entries.


Tamilnadu State Election Rolls


From a technical standpoint few points:


1) The site requires you to download and install a Tamil font to few the website. If you are a Non-Admin user like me, this is a problem. Here is a Windows Trick to get over this. Just click on the Font Download link, when the dialog box that says Open/Save/Cancel comes up, click Open. You will see a window similar to one below, please don’t close it; instead leave it open and then switch to your IE/Firefox window and refresh the page. You should be able to see the text in Tamil. (This trick works because whenver you have a font file (TTF) opened in Explorer, Windows temporarily registers the font. When you close the font window, the font is removed).



2) I would have preferred the website to be in Tamil Unicode, instead of the proprietary 8-bit encoding of C-DAC.

March 10th, 2006 | Category: India | One comment