Microsoft Office Online is now called Office Live Workspace

Posted on October 18, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Update: After reading a comment left by the Microsoft Office team, I realized that my title is wrong! Office Online is another business unit that is completely separate from Office Live Workspace, which is part of the Live initiative! Sorry for the confusion.

Microsoft has released some screenshots of it’s new Office Live Workspace product that will be coming out very soon. Of course, everyone has been waiting for something from Microsoft ever since Google released Docs and Spreadsheets. The new Office Live Workspace will be an online companion to Microsoft Office. Here’s a quick list of the features from the Beta web site:

1. Access From Anywhere – Store up to 1000+ Office documents in one central location, and access them from any computer via the Web.

2. Sharing – Invite people to see your workspace, allow people to view, comment and edit your documents online, and easily merge changes from multiple people.

3. Integration – Quickly and easily open and save files directly from within Excel, Word and PowerPoint and synchronize your contacts, tasks, and event lists with Outlook.

The service is currently in beta and you can only pre-register for the launch later this year. The screenshots of the new Google Docs competitor look surprisingly good! The site seems to be driven by AJAX with all of the Web 2.0 features.

Of course, the offerings from Microsoft will still be in proprietary format, so they cannot be easily imported into other programs. Even so, it’s yet another tool that you can use to create Office documents online!

I JUST wrote a a guest post last week on MakeUseOf about the 6 Free Office Suites That Are NOT Microsoft.

Source via ReadWriteWeb

[tags]office live workspace, office online, microsoft office online, online office apps[/tags]

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3 Responses to “Microsoft Office Online is now called Office Live Workspace”

Office Online said on : October 19th, 2007 at 8:06 am

This is not true. Office Live Workspace is an Office Live initiative. Office Online remains Office Online. We are two separate groups with different business goals.

For updates on what Office Online is up to, please read our blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/inside_o.....fault.aspx

Thanks,
The Office Online team

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