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Microsoft Office Live lawsuit


Remember that new Office Live productivity suite that Microsoft just launched? It's facing a lawsuit. A company called OfficeLive has filed a trademark infringement suit over Microsoft's use of the "Office Live" name.

OfficeLive runs sites that offer free professional advice to consumers under the names Legalofficelive.com and Realtorsofficelive.com, among others. An injunction has been issued to prevent Microsoft from using the name in the marketplace. What will this do to Microsoft? Well...it's getting to be a big enough pain, Microsoft can always just dump some bling bling on OfficeLive. Maybe purchase them outright and sell off their assets? Or, maybe an old-fashioned Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net style buyout? "Break his legs, boys!"

Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Web services, Google, Microsoft

Pay version of Google Apps for your domain coming soon?

google soon to be charging for apps for domainGoogle Apps for your domain allows domain owners to host email services at Google in a similar format to Gmail, with the added benefit of using their own unique domain. Administrators also have the ability to activate Google Talk, Calendar, custom start page, and domain web pages for different user accounts that they create. Google is expected to soon add Docs & Spreadsheets to this list as well, making it a complete online office solution for businesses. But BusinessWeek reports that Google will soon begin charging companies a subscription fee of a few dollars per person, per month. Business users are used to feature rich applications, so this might take some getting used to when it's released in full to the marketplace.

Microsoft has also unveiled Office Live where businesses can have access to web based email, calendar, project and task manager, and a customer organizer for $39.95/month. Zoho has a Virtual Office suite it has brought to the market that has no cost for individuals and $3 per user per month for an online hosted solution, and up to $295 per year for an on-premise solution consisting of webmail, calendar, web docs and sharing, tasks and reports, contacts, notes, bookmarks, instant messaging, WAP access, announcements, and multi-language support.

Filed under: Business, Internet, Windows, Microsoft

Get a free domain name care of Microsoft

office live domainsMicrosoft has an incredible offer on the table right now. Free domain names! Can it really be all that? Microsoft is offering free domains through its Office Live program for businesses. The free package consists of:
  • Free domain name and web hosting
  • Web site design tools
  • 500MB of web storage
  • 25 email accounts
  • Web site reports
  • Search engine advertising tool
So what about the domain name? Does Microsoft own it? I dug a little bit to find out that no, Microsoft indeed doesn't. Its you who is the registered owner. It is registered through Melbourne IT, who is owned by Microsoft, but the domain can be transferred after 60 days of signing up with Office Live, with no penalties.

After checking to see if your domain of choice is available, you do have to provide payment information for verification. Follow the steps, and you are hot on the path to some nice free web space, and domain name. Way to go Microsoft! Who doesn't like free domains?

There are additional offers in the mix as well. A Live Essentials offer for $19.95/month for 1GB of storage, and an Office Live Premium offer with 2GB of storage and 50 email accounts for $29.95/month.

[Tip from Deran Decker]

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