Despite the amount of grief that everyone gives Microsoft, it seems that they continue to persevere in designing products that work well together. They may not play well with everything else, but they usually work well with their own family of products namely Office. Enter Office 2007. I downloaded it tonight to play around with it on a test PC and I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I like it. With a Beta 2 we can usually expect some pretty polished products but this is has all the extra polish that you might expect from a RTM. Here is the catch; it plays well with others (notwithstanding Open Document format). I noticed the blogging feature from within 2007 which allows me to make posts onto WordPress through Word. I guess this is where we are finally starting to see the early work of XML coming to fruition. The menus in the new Word are very nice and we have been hearing a lot about these. The other pleasant surprise was that my picture output was by default in png. Does this mean we have .png support in IE7? Along with the standard MSN Spaces and Blogger support there is a support for basically whatever you have rolled up those posts in Atom or MetaWebLog formats. The Blogger support was nice to see (hope this doesn’t squash any upcoming Yahoo! deals, last time I checked Blogger was owned by Google) as well as Microsoft’s flexibility to give us the option to choose our blog software. Edit: I just noticed that you can also..edit..existing posts. How handy is that?

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