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October 31

Office Live Announcement this morning (or: finally! The end of the deafening silence)

Today we released the announcement for our next version; for the whole thing go here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-312007OfficeLivePR.mspx

 Below I took a few snippets out of it

  •  Microsoft® Office Live will be coming out of beta in the United States Nov. 15
  • Expanding internationally as well and are also scheduled for free beta availability in France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom on Nov. 21 (was 15, change of plans)
  • Web site design tools with asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to allow users to more easily drag and drop content and images into any section of their Web site.
  • includes more page templates and the ability to modify and import HTML to create more robust and sophisticated Web sites
  • Office Live provides an open platform on which developers can build customized or industry-specific software applications. Three partners participated in the pilot program and have already developed valuable small-business solutions on the Office Live platform, 75 partners worldwide are participating in the Early Adopter Program, building a wide variety of solutions to help meet the unique needs of small businesses.
  • Microsoft Office Live Basics: a company domain name; a Web site with 500 MB of storage; 25 company-branded e-mail accounts (each with 2 GB of storage)
  • Microsoft Office Live Essentials, offered at $19.95 per month, includes all the features of Office Live Basics, 1 GB of Web site storage, 50 company-branded e-mail, calendar and instant messaging accounts, and Microsoft Office Live Business Contact Manager and online Workspaces for 10 users with 500 MB of storage.
  • Microsoft Office Live Premium, $39.95 per month. Services include all the features of Office Live Basics and Office Live Essentials as well as an additional 2 GB of Web site storage; an increased capacity for 20 additional users and 1 GB of storage for the Workspaces. Office Live Premium also provides a rich set of Internet-based applications to help small-business owners streamline and automate the daily business tasks of managing their customers, projects and documents.

Are you a current Office Live Customer? What does the new release mean to you?

We have now published pages @  http://officelive.microsoft.com/Misc/Links.aspx?linkId=preview   that provide more information about the upcoming release. Please make sure you check it out; particularly the “Current Customers” Section (green button almost upper right corner)

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    `Graziano
    January 28 7:01 AM
    In Italy no?
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    AXCE
    November 15 2:23 PM
    Is there any documentation regarding how the Office Live integrates with MBS Great Plains/Dynamics?
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    Rohit Joshi
    November 15 1:33 PM
    How do I set the timezone so site report (statastics ) will make sense? :)
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    StaticShop
    November 14 6:06 PM
    is it Nov 15th yet?
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    keepsmiling
    November 13 10:31 PM
    So why is Microsoft making it so difficult to cancel the free BETA subscription....?  Is this a ploy to generate phantom revenue by charging everyone's credit card even though they will be issued a credit later...?  Get a grip.  Let people cancel without the charges!!!
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    (no name)
    November 13 12:47 PM
    When will Office Live be available in Canada?
    Will we be notified when it becomes available?
    The signup form shows "State/Region", and "Zip/Postal Code" , but allows only a State to be entered.
    Maybe it's a "Beta form". 
     
  • (no name)
    November 11 3:21 PM
    Does the adding/editing HTML affect all subscriptions? (Basic, ect)
  • Live guy
    November 08 7:06 PM
    My startup is using your Office Live Collaboration Beta service, and we really like it.
     
    Two additional features that would be *tremendously* helpful to us:
    - Ability to request notification of new posts; this could be at the main app level, e.g. Calendar, Documents, etc., or could be at the project or task level
    - Auto-link Tasks in the Project tool with Outlook tasks, so that me and my colleagues can keep track of tasks offline as well as online, and can edit within Outlook or online
     
    Thanks!
  • (no name)
    November 06 2:35 PM
    Valcan:
    Microsoft did a big surprize! What is a huge discrimination for Canada and Canadians with Office Live Beta service distribution! This service isn't available in Canada, it's only for US and some Europe countries, where their governments are tired to sue Microsoft, year after year, year after year. It's interesting why Microsoft choose Canada and not Germany, for instance. Is it because our country belong the Third World? Let's try to explain this...
  • November 06 8:13 AM
    Is it possible to have a pocketpc sync with the calendar, contacts and notes in outlook that are the folders from my windows live account?
  • November 05 9:37 PM
    What is the best way to get existing outlook data such as calendar appts, contacts, notes and existing email folders into office live? I have tried a few things but run into problems. Is there a how to document that will cover comprehensively how someone goes about this who is seriously trying to make their outlook integrate seemlessly with office live. I have downloaded and installed outlook connector. Some informationi about how information is passed between outlook and office live would be helpful. Bryan
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    (no name)
    November 02 6:19 PM
    I just want to cancel my subscription but convieniently enough, the customer support page where you are supposed to go to do that does not work. Can anyone tell me how to get this done? my email is truckinteach@hotmail.com
  • November 01 9:56 PM
    - You are correct that this is all about Office Live coming out of Beta
    - Dr. Drew: our mail has already been updated to use Live Mail M8.  If you are NOT seeing this experience on your Office Live created mailbox please let me know
    - Dr Drew:  We won't have a list of known issues fixed.. there are enough changes in the upcoming release that the list would be way too long...  after we come out of Beta we may start to have a 'top issues' list of some sort which we keep and update over time.  Stay tuned...
     
    - Matt
  • November 01 11:27 AM
    When will this service be available in Canada?  It looks like there will be beta's in other countries coming out shortly and the US version is only accessible by US customers?
     
    Thanks
    zelko
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    Herb Tyson
    October 31 5:23 PM
    The first bullet in this is incorrect. It says that Microsoft Office will be coming out of beta on November 15th. Actually, it's "Microsoft Office Live" that will be coming out of beta on November 15th, according to the linked press release. As far as I can tell, no announcement about a date for Microsoft Office's (2007) release has been announced yet.
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    DR_DREW
    October 31 3:10 PM
    is this also when the office live mail will be updated to more closely resemble live mail M8?
     
    and will we ever get a known/fixed issues list detailing what bugs are present, being worked on, fixed, etc?
     
    Thanks for this exciting news!
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