Microsoft is planning to maneuver Office Reside Workspace, the online storage/collaboration services adjunct to Workplace, from beta to last just before the end of this yr.Microsoft officials said on September three that as of a week back, the public beta of Workplace Reside Workspace had been downloaded by 1 million consumers. Microsoft released the public beta 6 months back.Microsoft;s objective is to release the last edition of Office Live Workspace — the product Microsoft has that is most comparable to Google Docs — in 2008,
Office 2010 Standard Key, stated Kirk Gregersen, Director of Prouct Management for Office Reside Workspace and Office Consumer and Small Business. He noted that Microsoft currently supports 11 languages with Workplace Reside Workspace and would like to get that number closer to the 37 it supports with Office prior to it takes the beta tag off the service.Gregersen mentioned that Microsoft has been surprised about the ways that testers are and aren;t using Office Reside Workspace. Originally, Microsoft thought many users, especially students, would use the company to gain remote access to their Workplace documents. Instead, users are tending to use Office Reside Workspace more for collaborative/team access to a single document.(Microsoft officials continue to cite this usage pattern in explaining why the company hasn;t released a Webified version of Office. Do users really want to create large text files, spreadsheets and presentations “around the Web” as opposed to on their PCs? Microsoft says no — and I feel the same. As I;ve stated just before,
Windows 7 Serial, I think users are choosing Google Docs more because they feel Workplace is overpriced than because they want to create documents in the cloud.)A reminder: Workplace Live Workspace is not a Web-based version of Microsoft Office; it is an adjunct to Office. The service can be used from a PC,
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, kiosk or other Web-access point with or without Workplace installed; (All you technically need is an World wide web Explorer or Firefox browser.) Workplace Live Workspace includes a rudimentary online word processor called Internet Notes; a “spreadsheet” that (at least so far) doesn’t do calculations called Net Lists; and the ability to access,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, view and comment on documents — both your own and those created by others who grant permissionMicrosoft most recently refreshed the beta of Workplace Reside Workspace in August, and added a few, new user-suggested features at that time,
Office Professional Plus 2010, including multi-file upload and an activity-pane view.