Began open beta testing of Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Recently, Microsoft is actively working to translate its office suite to a web platform. The central repository of the entire system should be an online document repository, where users can copy their files and share them (the online document editor will be screwed here a little later, it has been tested for six months, known under the code name Tahini). Pre-registration of testers for this service began on October 1, 2007 . And then came the moment when they decided to bring the product out of the closed beta for public review. Since yesterday, Office Live Workspace has opened for everyone.

True, the registration is still working in pre-recording mode, but the first testers who signed up in early October, already today, apparently, were allowed into the system. At least, even the first screenshots and videos with the demonstration of Office Live Workspace functionality appeared on the Internet.



The on-line Office Live Workspace service integrates into Office 2003 and 2007 office suites using a plugin, after downloading and installing which you can upload files to the online archive with one click from the office application, as shown in the screenshot to the right, and even have a synchronization function (when saving file on the local PC, it is automatically updated in the storage). Everything works without launching a browser or an FTP client.
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Collective editing is simple. As soon as you close the document, it is updated in the repository and becomes available for downloading and editing to the one who requests it. Of course, from a technological point of view, this is more primitive than co-editing in Google Docs or Zoho, but, as we noted above, the online editor Tahini is not ready yet.