Microsoft is offering a beta of its Office Live Workspace, which lets users share and edit documents online.
These days it seems to be a case of where
Google leads,
Microsoft will follow. Certainly that’s the case with their new free
Office Live Workspace, which has just been introduced, allowing users to share, access and store documents online.
Google has already done that, which means the Redmond-based giant is playing catch-up. But it does offer a couple of telling advantages. Although it does require a small download, it offers one-click storage by using a toolbar button on Office, and users can have control over who sees the documents.
Those without Microsoft Office will be able to view and comment on the documents, but only those who own Office software will be able to edit documents.
The service will initially be offered as a beta, and those who sign up, according to the site, will be able to store more than 1,000 Office documents and access them from any computer with a Web browser, as well as eliminate the need to manually merge documents from several people.
"People are e-mailing documents all the time," Eric Gilmore, Microsoft senior product manager for Microsoft Office, told
Information Week. "That's an inefficient way to do things when you want to work together."
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