Office Live Workspace is a secure online workspace that Microsoft Office users can share Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF files – working remotely from virtually any web-connected PC and collaborate on with others.
The services initially gives users 500Mb of storage, and is limited to users in the US, though it is scheduled for roll-out internationally in 2008.
The Office Live Workspace is Microsoft’s hybrid answer to the Google Doc & Spreadsheets service
Microsoft Office director of consumer and small business product management Kirk Gregersen said the product helped solve collaboration challenges by giving everyone in a workgroup access to the same version of a document.
“This is just the start of a wave of new products we’re rolling out to deliver on our vision of software plus services, bringing together the features and performance of software with the convenience and reach of services delivered over the internet,” Mr Gregersen said.
“We think that Office Live Workspace will be important for our 500 million Office customers because it’s one of the first tightly integrated web-based sharing and collaboration services designed to give a seamless experience for Office users,” he said.
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