Chris Pratley (Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Office Authoring Services) mentions it’s now possible to blog directly from OneNote via a connection with Word 2007, which has some late-addition features that let you use it to create blog posts directly. Gone is the messy Office markup/HTML gobbledy-gook, as the code if cleaned up and made quite basic. Finally! I’ve blogged from OneNote using the email integration capability in the (distant) past, but this makes it much more practical and “real.”

• Chris Pratley mentions blogging from OneNote 2007

• Joe Friend’s description of blogging from Word 2007
• Download and try Office 2007 beta version yourself

Bonus Track!
Also – Rob Bushway at GottaBeMobile.com has a quick audio interview with Chris Pratley – lots of great information there. Chris discusses small software teams and the many benefits of staying small and focused. While a small team means high demand, it also means agility and a powerful sense of ownership and intimate knowledge of the codebase. Chris also discusses the use of Ink in OneNote and why they didn’t use the basic Ink control in the OneNote 2003 release, as well as what they’re doing with ink in the new version.

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