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Microsoft & the web services industry

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:01 am
by m3mn0n
Microsoft Office Live is coming. :x
Today, an online presence is almost a requirement for small business success. That’s why Microsoft is introducing Microsoft® Office Live—a set of affordable business productivity services designed to help you grow your business more easily by establishing a professional presence online.

Microsoft Office Live will provide your company with its own domain name, Web site, and e-mail accounts for free.

Additionally, Microsoft Office Live will offer you and your employees expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced private Web site—affordably managed and maintained by Microsoft—where you can work together and share information with your employees, customers, suppliers, and contractors.

A beta version of Microsoft Office Live will launch in early 2006.*
http://www.microsoft.com/office/officelive/default.mspx

This is sure to take away many clients from businesses/freelance developers out there because of how well Microsoft can market it's products to Windows/Office users.

Not sure about all of the offerings, but my guess is, it's safe to say that they will offer many ASP.NET web apps to their customers too (maybe even ones integrated with the software). :?

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:35 am
by m3mn0n
Nobody else noticed this? :?

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:30 pm
by timvw
Meaby other ppl don't really mind? ;) What would be the added value of an office suite via a webservice?? Now i pay once for something and i can use it untill the end of times (or a newer windows version *grrr*). So why would i want to pay , let's say $15/year, for something that i hardly use? Or something where the stuff that i actually use already works...