- Basic e-mail and calendaring
- Collaboration functions (similar in nature to SharePoint Portal Server)
- Project management functionality
- Domain name and Web site ("security-enhanced and "affordably managed and maintained by Microsoft", according to the current Office Live homepage)
- Document management tools
- Customer relationship tools
CNET News.com's Ina Fried wrote "Microsoft to launch Office Live beta", some excerpts:
Microsoft plans on Wednesday to kick off the test version of Office Live, the company's collection of Web hosting and business applications for small companies.
The company is targeting businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Although nearly nine in 10 such businesses have Web access, only about half have their own Web site, Microsoft says.
"That's a lot of small businesses without a Web site," said Dean Nicolls, senior product manager for Microsoft's information worker services group. In one sign of the demand, Nicolls said, more than 100,000 businesses have signed up for the test. All of those companies are being included in the test of Office Live, while additional companies can sign up on Microsoft's site. ....
Office Live Basics, the free entry-level service, offers small businesses their own Internet domain, 2GB of e-mail storage for up to five accounts, 30MB of storage for a Web site and up to 10GB per month of data transfer. Those who set up a site with Office Live Basics also get access to simple site analytics such as page views and which browser customers are using to visit the site. Office Live pages can be built using a variety of customizable templates, and no HTML experience is needed.
Richard MacManus of ZDNet analysed:
Microsoft's web-based office product, called Office Live, is being released in beta today. Office Live will integrate with existing Microsoft Office products Jupiter analyst Joe Wilcox has the early word on the release. He firstly points out that Office Live is in no way "a hosted version of Microsoft Office". That's true, but personally I expect Microsoft (and probably Google) to eventually release a fully functional Web Office suite. It's just a matter of time. Note that it won't just be a replica of desktop office, because it'll need to be native to the Web. And I'm talking years not months, unless Google comes out with such a product sooner than expected (which is always a distinct possibility with Google). I'm going to write more on that subject in the near future, but for now let's focus on what IS in Office Live. Here are the main features:
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