Microsoft Launched Office Live Beta

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Office Live beta for free trial. There are three versions of Office Live: Live Basics, Live Collaboration, and Live Essentials. Live Basics is FREE, even after its beta stage.

With Office Live, Microsoft is offering e-mail, Web domains, Web site hosting and other services for free during the beta. Once Office Live moves to final status around November, the most basic package of services will remain free. Microsoft will sell other packages on a subscription basis.

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What is Microsoft Office Live?

Microsoft Office Live is NOT an online version of Microsoft Office. Office Live provides a domain name, website, and email accounts. It also offers some business management applications (online), such as customers, projects, and document management tools. Therefore, Office Live is a service to let you manage your business anywhere and anytime, it is not an online application to create your word document.

My two cents

Microsoft Office Live Basics is free! You get a website with your own domain name and email accounts without paying a cent to Microsoft! Sound like a good deal huh? But I will keep myself away from good offers like this. By the way, you are required to submit your credit card information in order to sign up for Office Live beta.