Podcasts, like blogging, are spreading across the Internet like chickenpox on a 5-year-old. So the people behind Microsoft Office Online have posted some audio files for your enjoyment. There are interviews with various Microsoft product managers — lots to interest you, especially with the lowdown on the new 2007 Office system programs.

When you don't have time to listen to one of the longer interviews, we have a few very short snippets of the Crabby Office Lady in action.

These podcasts are an experiment for Office Online, so please let us know if you like, love, or loathe them by clicking the Yes or No button below the Was this information helpful? question at the very bottom of this page (scroll down to find it). In the comments box, you can let us know what you'd like to hear next: more interviews? shorter ones? informal chats with Office Online staff? Go on, make our day. If the podcasts are useful and you'd like more, we'll try to set up some regular podcasts with an RSS feed.

We are very grateful to all the product managers who participated in the interviews, and especially to Shawn Murray, a Microsoft field representative who recorded all the product manager interviews and let us borrow this content. Check out Shawn's own Web site too, The IW Center.

Interviews about the 2007 Microsoft Office system

The Crabby Office Lady offers advice

These audio clips are taken from some of the Crabby Office Lady Videos.

• The Crabby Office Lady talks about fonts (1:37)
• The Crabby Office Lady talks about forwarding e-mail (1:35)
• The Crabby Office Lady talks about grammar (1:13)
• The Crabby Office Lady talks about passwords (1:45)
• The Crabby Office Lady talks about templates (1:12)
• The Crabby Office Lady talks about Microsoft Office OneNote (1:48)

Interviews about other Microsoft products

• Microsoft Office Business ScoreCard Manager 2005, Oudi Antebi (16:11)
• Live Communication Server 2005, Jerry Smith (28:02)
• Records Management, Manish Sharma (19:12)
• Windows Rights Management Services, Dev Balasubramanian (30:18)

Remember, let us know what you want and we'll do our best to provide it — within the boundaries of taste, decency, and possibility, of course!