Comments on: Office Live Workspace Beta Opens To the Public

By: zigime

zigime — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:32:51 +0000

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Technology news - Microsoft’s Answer To Google Docs Hits 1 Million Users — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:28:03 +0000

[...] a direct competitor to Google Docs and startups like Zoho, was announced last winter and opened in public beta last March. When we originally covered Live Workspace, we criticized its underwhelming web-based [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » マイクロソフトのGoogle Docs対抗が100万ユーザー突破

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » マイクロソフトのGoogle Docs対抗が100万ユーザー突破 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:23:59 +0000

[...] Microsoftの発表によると、同社のOffice Live Workspaceベータのユーザーが100万人に達した。このサービスはOfficeの拡張であり、またGoogle DocsおよびZohoなどのスタートアップと直接競合するもので、今年3月に公開ベータを開始した。 [...]

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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:42:31 +0000

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By: Microsoft’s Answer To Google Docs Hits 1 Million Users

Microsoft’s Answer To Google Docs Hits 1 Million Users — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:07:50 +0000

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By: Maciek

Maciek — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:01:48 +0000

David Zhao, I would like an invite to Zecter, how can I get it? There is no contact address at your site.

By: DAVIDONE » Blog Archive » Office Live Workspace Beta Opens To the Public

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:54:34 +0000

[...] Microsoft opened up the beta of its Office Live Workspace to all comers today. The service, which is a hosted version of Sharepoint, is designed to let you share Office documents and sync edits. It does provide a decent (if crippled) SHRIMP-based word processor, but for the most part it forces you to […] (Read on Source) [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:43:34 +0000

This is a great idea, the execution is 3rd rate at best. I just find that all these MS web services require far too many clicks, and the interface is just clunky, very web 1.0ish. Why can’t you sync all you files to this service? I have Office on pretty much all the computers that I use, so I am not put off by the requirement to have to use the actual app, but MS doesn’t do much to make this easy for you.

I have been watching Sharepoint for a while, and MS still has lots of work to do to get this idea off the ground.

All that said, I am gonna try this thing for a few weeks and see if I can make it work, or will I stick with Google Docs / Basecamp.

By: Development on a Shoestring

Development on a Shoestring — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:18:09 +0000

Microsoft launches Office Live Workspaces…

Office Live Workspaces is now in public beta for anyone with a Live account. The concept is very much the same as Google Docs, it gives you a space to store & share Office documents online. Unlike Google Docs, you can’t edit documents o…

By: Smiler

Smiler — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:25:45 +0000

Mmm. Not ready for primetime yet. Unresponsive, unfinished ‘resource’ pages, the basic web editing is, well, basic, layout and organisation is awful.

“Your e-mail is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience, please check back at a later time.”

Not quite sure where they are going with this but I hope it is some distance from where they are now.

The all round impression is ‘ouch’.

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Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:21:10 +0000

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By: Microsoft announces Office Live Workspace to the public | Dallas J Clark

Microsoft announces Office Live Workspace to the public | Dallas J Clark — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:12:56 +0000

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By: David Zhao

David Zhao — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:03:57 +0000

MikeT,

Zecter is something that does exactly that. We are running a private beta of it right now. Check out the screencast and let me know if you want an invite.

By: MikeT

MikeT — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:31:56 +0000

What would be really cool is having the Sharepoint-like ability to:
1. Upload a document to an online site
2. While online, click on that document’s name or icon and have it open in Word/Excel/whatever
3. Edit the document and when hitting Save – have the document saved into that online location, not the PC from which I accessed it

I feel the huge need for such a product and if anyone could suggest a site/company offering this – please post it here.

Cheers.

By: pffft

pffft — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:13:06 +0000

yeah – businesses are going to start using Facebook for collaboration software. just make sure to wade through all the zombies and pokes and relationship updates and scrabulous games to get to your critical business documents.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:20:40 +0000

If this were somewhat integrated into a social networking site like facebook I think if could be much more useful. Every time you save a document on your computer it become immediately accessible from your facebook account. You could easily send it to others too. I think these types of tools need to get pushed into a social networking.

By: Webside Ventures

Webside Ventures — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:20:28 +0000

So you can import a .doc and view it, but you must open the file in Word to edit? How weak.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:05:59 +0000

This thing is miserable. I keep getting script timeouts and when I installed the plugin for desktop office it just opens and saves from the local harddrive instead of the web folder!

By: NotABug

NotABug — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:41:39 +0000

Is this a bad joke?

Can’t create a spreadsheet, can’t create a doc, just notes.

When I try to upload a .doc, it errors out.

Way to go Microsoft.

By: akahn

akahn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:35:40 +0000

What blows me away is that a) there’s no search capability and b) you can’t classify your content in folders–everything needs to live in the same work area.

That said, I do think the software is pretty good given that it’s just in beta.

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:26:19 +0000

Office Live Workspace Beta…

Today Microsoft announced Office Live Workspace Beta, lets you share office documents and sync edits.

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By: YFOLDERS

YFOLDERS — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:11:16 +0000

Nice.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:58:56 +0000

I am sure techcrunch covered this early today, but pulled the article.

Anyway: this is just a sophisticated FTP site with sharing and an online viewer for Office files.

It doesn’t allow you to edit documents online: that’s is something I would pay for and want dearly (none of the alternatives support all the formulas and formatting that excel uses).: at the moment, it’s a wasted oportunity

By: Mailania

Mailania — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:27 +0000

If doesn’t work well with a mac I’m not going to even bother checking it out. I don’t find online office tools to be particularly helpful. But if I were to use them it would be Google Docs, just because of the integration with other google tools

By: whoopie

whoopie — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:18 +0000

the google editing tools are painful, zoho also

tying desktop editing apps with online syncing and sharing could be a better approach, would love to see openoffice do this