Microsoft
has released a public beta of
Microsoft
Office Live Workspace, a web-based extension of Office that lets users
access and share documents online.
The company has also unveiled several enhanced Live Workspace features, such
as an activity panel, notifications, direct links and multi-file upload.
"Today's announcement moves us further down the path of bringing a
software
plus services experience to people at home, work and school," said Stephen
Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division.
The company said that hundreds of thousands of users have signed up since the
private beta was launched last October, thousands of whom have been invited to
provide feedback on the service.
The Office team has also been working with a number of US academic
institutions, including Florida Community College and the universities of
Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin-Parkside and Vanderbilt.
Office Live Workspace lets users organise and edit documents and projects
from almost any computer, and bundled storage space allows users to save more
than 1,000 Office documents to one place online and share them via the web.
Users can view and comment on documents in the browser, create simple web
lists and web notes, and share documents in real time through integration with
Microsoft SharedView.
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