Jonathan Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager, worked with a team of problem-solvers to find a way for multiple users to efficiently collaborate on documents. The resulting tool, coauthoring, will be available in Office 2010.
Sam Radakovitz developed a feature called “sparklines” for Microsoft Office Excel 2010 that lets users transform large amounts of data into small, at-a-glance displays that fit into a single cell.
Microsoft Program Manager Michael Affronti helped develop two new features for Microsoft Office 2010, one that organizes e-mails by conversation and another that lets people use e-mail to connect socially with friends and professional contacts.
