Microsoft Office Live
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| Microsoft Office Live | |
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 The main menu of Office Live. |
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| Developed by | Microsoft |
| Stable release | Microsoft Office Live Basics (U.S./UK) Microsoft Office Live Essentials (U.S./UK) |
| Preview release | Microsoft Office Live Collaboration Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta (international) |
| OS | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre | Web application, Web development |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | officelive.microsoft.com |
Microsoft Office Live is an Internet-based software service designed for Microsoft Office users and small businesses. As of 2008, it consists of two services, Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace.
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[edit] Office Live Small Business
Office Live Small Business gives users their own domain name, web site, and e-mail accounts. It also gives users access to various management software, including project, consumer, and document management applications.[1] Finally, it offers clients a password-protected "shared site" to organize information.[2]
A beta version of the service was released on November 16, 2006 and is currently only available to residents of the United States and the United Kingdom. In November 2006, the service expanded (in the beta version) to France, Germany and Japan.[1]
There are three levels to the service: Office Live Basics, Office Live Essentials and Office Live Premium.[1] Each user now gets a 4th level website (i.e., johndoe.web.officelive.com) but must pay $14.95/year for a 1st level site (i.e., johndoe.com).[3] Currently, the first year is free.
[edit] Basics
Basics provides a user with their own domain name, and the ability to create their own website. It also provides periodic web site traffic reports. Basic does allow customer to upload pages created by third party tools. The package includes 100 e-mail accounts under the registered domain (Muchmore), 500 MB storage and 10 Gbit/s of bandwidth. Microsoft requires a credit card number on file to register for the free service.
[edit] Essentials
Essential includes the features in the Basics edition plus Shared Sites and some management applications.[2] It also has larger website storage and supports third-party HTML editors. It also increases the storage to 1 GB and bandwidth to 15 Gbit/s.
[edit] Premium
Premium provides all the features of Office Live Basics and Office Live Collaboration, plus it provides a website with 2 GB of storage, 50 e-mail accounts (with 2 GB of storage each) and more advanced website traffic reports.[2]
[edit] Office Live Workspace
Office Live Workspace includes the ability to share documents and organize events between users directly. However, it does not include a website or a first-level domain.
[edit] System requirements
Many of the features of Office Live (including sign-up) require Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later running on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows Server 2003.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Microsoft Office Live FAQ. Retrieved on 2006-09-03.
- ^ a b c Microsoft Office Live Fact Sheet (PDF format). Retrieved on 2006-09-03.
- ^ How to be the master of your domain at myofficelivecommunity.com
[edit] External links
- Microsoft Office Live Official Website
- Muchmore, Michael PC Magazine February 2008
- Microsoft Office Live Screenshots Gallery
- Microsoft Office Live Developer Portal
- Microsoft Across America
- Work for Office Live
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