Office is on the Web now

Does everyone know about office.live.com? As part of Office 2010, Microsoft launched web versions of all their products. Check it out:

It’s OneNote, but works everywhere

This editor is on the web, so it’s accessible from any machine (regardless of browser, works great on Chrome in OS X for me), it’s free, and OneNote will sync with the web notebooks as if they were on your local machine or on a network share.

OneNote on the web means you can make your project notes public

A blog is a great place for documenting your project more formally, or for announcing things you want folks to know, but it’s also important to have a place to store ideas that aren’t yet fully formed, or you’re not committed to finishing. OneNote is good for this, but now we have a way to publish out notes; I’ve done this with ReactiveUI (though right now my notebook is pretty empty, I’m going to try to use it more).

My hope is, that if people can see the direction of the project and what the thinking is behind the code, it might spark good ideas for them as well: “..cool but what about this?“. Either they can fire off a mail to the mailing list, or maybe it will inspire them to write something completely different. If I’m going to write the notebook anyways, I’d rather share it!