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UML and Database diagrams in the new Visio 

<p>Developers and IT professionals frequently use Visio to design and document software and database systems. They recognize the benefits of visualizing complex systems to understand relationships and dependencies, and Visio makes it easy to communicate and socialize designs across the team. As a result the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Database diagrams in Visio are widely used today by an enthusiastic audience, and our developer and IT community provide invaluable feedback on these diagram types. We have addressed this feedback in the new Visio with a significant refresh of the UML and Database templates. </p>
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SharePoint Public Websites in Office 365 

Update: Starting in January 2015, Microsoft is making changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature. Office 365 customers who currently use the feature will continue to have access to the feature for a minimum of two years following the changeover date. Microsoft will offer alternate solutions from industry leaders to enable Office 365 customers
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Changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013 

Hi, I’m Keenan Newton, a senior product marketing manager on the SharePoint team. We’re making some changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013, and I wanted to talk about the reasoning behind the changes. With SharePoint Server 2013 embracing new web standards for client side rendering of pages such as JavaScript, JSON, and
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Insights for developers about Change Shape 

<p>Lots of customers have told us that they want to exchange one shape with another without losing the text, connections and formatting.  The Change Shape feature in the new Visio gives you this functionality. In this post, we will review the Change Shape feature and talk about the implications of the feature on shape and solution developers.</p>
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Top timeline tips in Visio 

<p>With the new Visio you can quickly create modern looking, organized timelines that make it easy to order events and share information. Improvements we made across the product allow the new timelines to take on a variety of different looks to create beautiful, professional diagrams. Specifically, we made it easier to do the following tasks: apply themes, customize dates and elements, reposition shapes and switch between timeline styles This blog post will walk through making a timeline to highlight the new features and demonstrate a few tricks and hints.</p>
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5 Questions about SkyDrive Pro! 

​Hi, I’m Tejas Mehta, a senior marketing manager on the SharePoint team. In July, we introduced the new SharePoint, which includes SkyDrive Pro. With the Preview in full swing, we wanted to provide some additional context on SkyDrive Pro. In this post, I’ll answer some of the common questions being asked by our customers and
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The new People Hub in Outlook 2013 

<p>Ever wonder what's going on with the person you haven't spoken to in a while?  Want to find out what's new with someone before sending them an email or giving them a call? If you do, Office 2013 is the product for you. Office 2013 brings all the people you care about in one place. You can view contacts from multiple email accounts, and updates from social networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Office 2013 makes it easy for you to get things done with people. If you are like most people, you have contact information spread across multiple different sources. For example, Wendy is a Facebook friend, a LinkedIn connection, and I have her personal mobile number saved in Outlook. In Office, I can see all of Wendy's data from these various sources in one place:</p>
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The new Visio start experience 

<p>The new Visio start experience is all about helping you quickly and easily find the template you need to begin your diagramming experience. You'll see that we've updated all our template icons to be simpler and easier to quickly scan.   We've also color coded them, so that, for example, all the flowchart related templates are green. Additionally, new search functionality will make it easy to find exactly what you're looking for to get started creating your diagram. Ultimately, we think these improvements will make it a lot faster to go from booting Visio to drawing your diagram.   </p>
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Overview of Search in SharePoint 2013 

​Quick introduction: My name is Gerhard Schobbe, I’m the Group Program Manager for the team in the SharePoint organization that’s focused on search scenarios for Information Workers in the Enterprise. Goals for Release Let me first talk about the goals for this release. As for any release, there are several areas we were aiming to