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Microsoft Office Live Workspace: This is Microsoft's online office strategy?
We've been expecting Microsoft to respond with an online office suite of its own, perhaps built on MS Works. But now that Microsoft has announced its online office strategy, we have to say we're a bit underwhelmed.
Office Live Workspace is a free web-based feature that lets Microsoft Office users share their documents online. In other words, you'll need to pay for Microsoft Office and use it to create documents on your desktop, but you can share them online. With Google Docs, you can hop onto any web browser to pull up all your documents and/or create new text, HTML, spreadsheet, or presentation documents. Office Live Workspace just lets you access files you've already created. In other words, it's more of a Scribd/Docstoc competitor than a Zoho/ThinkFree competitor.
If you want to sign up for the Office Live Workspace beta, Microsoft is accepting applications. The beta itself probably won't start for another month.
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LL said 8:22PM on 10-01-2007
doesnt work from Canada...even though the form offers "provinces"
meh
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kalivd said 11:03AM on 10-18-2007
Does microsoft's office-live-workspace allow the users to create the documents offline and upload them without having to loggin to the account like in
http://www.edeskonline.com/index_online_office.asp
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Linda Jamieson said 10:40PM on 11-14-2007
I am from Canada and can't sign up for a free web site, how come....
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