Keynote Address: Act One

What are we seeing here with Office so far? We've seen a very deep level of integration. The first thing that happened was that Martha went into her desktop and she had projects, four different projects that she was able to choose from. The project contained all of the customized information. There are the four projects, she picks up one, and up it comes. It's a whole workspace, with business cards and documents. This workspace happens to have the schedule open right now and is showing all of the events, when she started working on the documents, when the documents are due. It's very easy to get into, and you don't have to think about particular applications or directories. All the data is there in one place.

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One of the documents, the most important one, is this proposal for the shopping mall. And there we saw that information of all types were brought together. We had a movie, we had sales projections, we had charts, and as we saw her use that she was able to navigate very easily. Different files were involved.

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This is a unified table of contents here. Over on the left it's like an outline to go to the different pieces. You navigate through without ever starting up a program or even knowing what's being invoked, so there's an object architecture there, an integration of use interface to share across all of those different document types.

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Finally, we had the idea of bringing time into the picture, integrating your work with the schedule. You can go back in your calendar and see how on a particular day what documents you edited, when you started, what you did, and look at the version that you were working on that day. All of it's tied into your different meeting times. The calendar can even blink when something is due, like the document we see there. The Assistant, which is down in the lower right there, is actually recommending that a meeting be scheduled by looking at different business bits for all of the people involved.

All that's taking place across the Internet. All of the different appointments are easy to pull together. It's the intelligent Assistant that makes that easy. Looking forward in time and looking back, the journaling keeps track of all of that history and makes it very accessible.

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