Word 2007 and Microsoft Math

Edgar Sánchez — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:22:00 GMT

Reading Alfred Thompson blog, who focus on computer science teaching at K-12 schools (what we call in Ecuador basic high school), I found this nice entry: Microsoft released a few days ago the Word 2007 Math Add-in. After installing and playing with it for just 2 minutes, I was able to create this document:

As you can see, the add-in lets you put formulas inside the text (including fractions, exponentials, sigmas, integrals, etc.), create graphs from an equation (I just typed in y = ...), and even solve those equations. Ah, this is the kind of stuff I would've loved to have at high school or college.

Speaking of which, the add-in seems to be based (I'm just especulating here) on Microsoft Math, an unexpensive stand alone product I wasn't aware of, that could be a nice present for a high school niece in love with physics or math.

Will Vista, Office 2007, and Sharepoint 2007 cure cancer?

Edgar Sánchez — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:37:00 GMT

Of course, I'm overdoing it -may be a lot-, but you need to drive readers to your blog, don't you? Anyways, it's worth reading this article about a very interesting project that uses Vista, Office 2007, Sharepoint 2007 and .NET 3.0 to help coordinate a cancer research team, you can also see a detailed presentation here. Some people may point out that previous platforms, notably Lotus Notes, proposed this kind of applications, so what's new here? For me, developer productivity: according to Tim Huckaby this project took just a few weeks. Unbelievable.

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Word 2007 and Microsoft Math

Will Vista, Office 2007, and Sharepoint 2007 cure cancer?