Jeff Raikes left Apple in 1981 and became the visionary behind Microsoft Office. This is Part One of the Jeff Raikes story for The History of Microsoft series.
Jeff’s entire story is told with great visuals; we dug through thousands of old tapes and photographs to bring you this compelling documentary, which takes an incredible look into the history of technology, what life was like at Apple in 1980, how Jeff taught himself to program on an Apple II, and his first assignment, which was working on Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.
Jeff also discusses why he left Apple, and what it was like to work for Steve Jobs and then Steve Ballmer before coming to Microsoft at a time when there were only about 100 employees. He also tells great stories about Microsoft hiding the protype to the IBM personal computer and how Microsoft Office came to see the light of day.
The Education Labs team have today released a free add-in for Office 2003 and 2007 that allows educators to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents directly to and from 
Microsoft is full of oddities and little known answers to mysterious questions. The purpose of this series is to seek out those answers and offer them to you. Please comment with other questions you’d like to get answered! 
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Paul decided to take a little vacation so our good friend Adam stepped in to bring us the hottest stories on Microsoft Campus. Some are….
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With Office products, and nearly all Microsoft programs, help is a click away: just press F1. See how customers have improved the experience in Office 2010.
Graphics can vastly improve how you digest Excel data. In Excel 2010, great graphics get even better with Sparklines–an “executive summary” for each row of data in your data.
On the road at CES and the buzz on Office 2010 is remarkable for PowerPoint 2010, especially the new video and image tools.