Microsoft offers beta Office Live Workspace

Office Live Workspace, attacked another Microsoft in the world of business tools, begin their lives.
The company will open the system to exchange documents gradually, starting on Monday with a pre-registered users. Office Live Workspace to store Word documents, PowerPoint and Excel online, share and work together on these instruments. Related SharedView annex to share desktop settings and work together on Office documents in real time.
While Microsoft belatedly entered the market means teamwork-based Web, the company is the dominant force in the business market instruments, while online competitors, such as Google, have not demonstrated any notable success in attracting a wide audience of users. Nevertheless Office Live Workspace is a good beginning for the development of online functionality, which will probably prove to himself embedded Office. This is not a full set of online business applications, and a set of tools teamwork, "confined" by custom Office applications.
Office Live Workspace is one of the best examples that demonstrate where it focuses its strategy of Microsoft software "plus" services, which is designed to connect local and veb-functionality in Microsoft applications. In custom applications integrated Office toolbar that lets you save in Office Live Workspace, such as Word documents, and uses the web to store and review, leaving most of the actual work on the editing of a client.
In October, Microsoft Office Live Workspace tests in several universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington and Vanderbelt. Send feedback prompted the company to make some changes in the user interface Live Workspace and work on productivity improvement. Although the beta test will be open, the timing of release final product until Microsoft calls.