Microsoft Office development platform ups and downs
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Attendees at the Microsoft 2008 Office System Developer Conference this week are leveraging development capabilities in Office System, but cite issues such as getting used to the new ribbon-based Fluent UI in the 2007 Office release.
A sampling of attendees at the San Jose, Calif., event revealed mostly satisfaction with Office System. Most were Microsoft business partners developing applications for Microsoft's SharePoint platform for collaboration and business processes.
"I bought into it. I'm drinking the Kool-Aid," said Jeff Modzel, technical architect for SunGard Higher Education.