John Walkenback pointed me to The Digital Home Video: What’s up with Microsoft Excel? in his post What’s Up With Don Reisinger? Despite John’s warning, I watched the video. It was unprofessionally produced, the announcer (Don Reisinger) was ill-prepared, and he whined about all kinds of topics, like the puppy he’s getting, his honeymoon, and [...]

I learned from Tim Mayes in Office Labs Chart Advisor for Excel that Microsoft’s Office Labs has developed an add-in that advises you based on your data what chart type you should use. From the Office Labs Chart Advisor page:
Chart Advisor is a prototype that provides an alternate approach for creating charts in Excel 2007. [...]

From Ross at Methods in Excel, in “Microsoft, you just don’t get office developers don’t you?“

VBA Macro Person
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the insulting tone, or the fact that They Don’t Get It. I haven’t moved to dot-net because in four years I’ve had exactly two potential clients ask me to develop something in [...]

Update (11 April): It’s been a week since I switched hosting companies, and aside from some minor start up issues, the web site and the blog have been performing admirably.
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So I’m partially back in business. After getting no help over the phone support and no responses to my increasingly irate emails, I finally received an [...]