Re: OFFICE LIVE

Try going to that link if you don't have an Office Live account. :-) You won't find out anything at all, other than the fact that you're an unrecognized user.

After Googling and trying a variety of different links matching "what is office live"--none of which answered the question--I finally gave up and tried the old fasioned way... WikiPedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Live

Even so, it's still written in Microsoft-ese, which makes it hard to see why it's called "Office Live" or how it differs, say, from an infinite number of similar offerings from a variety of different companies (Google, Yahoo, etc.).

This press release tells a bit about what the different levels of OL are:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-15OfficeLiveBetaPR.mspx

It boils down to:

• Microsoft Office Live Basics. A collection of free services (advertising-supported) will provide a small business with the core requirements for establishing an online identity. Services include a company domain name; five e-mail accounts using that company domain name, each with 2 GB of storage; a Web site with 30 MB of file storage space; an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop design tool for creating a compelling, professional-quality Web site; and the Microsoft Office Live Site Reports tool for monitoring and analyzing Web site traffic.

• Microsoft Office Live Collaboration. Designed for small businesses that may already have a Web site, this subscription offering provides a rich, versatile set of Internet-based business management tools that are managed and maintained by Microsoft. Based on Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services technology, the Microsoft Office Live Collaboration service offers small businesses password-protected online workspaces (intranets and extranets). Capabilities include customer management, project management, sales and marketing management, employee management, and company administration, as well as password-protected internal shared sites to facilitate collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and other business partners.

• Microsoft Office Live Essentials. A comprehensive set of business services, this subscription offering will provide customers with the resources and collaboration tools they need to establish and manage a small business online. Services include a company domain name; 50 e-mail accounts using that company domain name, each with 2 GB of storage; a Web site with 50 MB of file storage space; the same Web design tool as Microsoft Office Live Basics, plus Microsoft Office FrontPage® support for advanced Web design; more advanced Web site analytics; and a rich set of Internet-based applications to help small-business owners streamline and automate daily business tasks, such as management of customers, projects and documents.

If the name makes you think that Office Live is an online/web-based version of Office... you're wrong (like I was).

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"Tom Willett" <tompepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Oy8SoBQ5HHA.5160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/default.aspx

"jhong" <jhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5D6A1BDC-6A27-43ED-BFBC-3CF55F67763A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Hi everyone.
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| Can anybody tell me what's Office Live all about? And if you guys have a
| direct number for Tech Assistance or inquiry about this product, i would
| surely appreciate it.
|
| Many Thanks.



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