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Tuesday March 4, 2008

Microsoft Launches Office Live Workspace

Following Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it would offer Web based versions of its enterprise products for smaller businesses, Microsoft today announced its Office Live Workspace service, enabling Office users to write, store, edit, and share more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents, such as Microsoft Word and Excel, directly on the Internet. The service is available to anyone with a Windows Live ID; Microsoft hopes that most Microsoft Office users will also use Workspace, which could mean adoption by many millions of users. This is the latest, and perhaps most aggressive move of Microsoft’s software plus services strategy, which aims to combine Microsoft software products with online services, as Microsoft hopes to catch up with Google which offers a similar free online service called Google Apps.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3478146.ece
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302792.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080303/tc_infoworld/95724
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-first-look-microsoft-office-live-workspaces-goes-public.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143062-c,webservices/article.html
http://mashable.com/2008/03/03/office-live-workspaces-public-beta/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/03/Microsoft-Workspace-graduates-from-beta_1.html
http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080304/AQTU15204032008-1.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/msft/3590763.htm

New Yahoo OnePlace Tool Gathers Favorite Web Info On Mobile Devices

Yahoo plans to launch a companion to both OneConnect, a service we reported on at searchengineworld last month, and mobile search service OneSearch, to be called OnePlace with a release date in the second quarter of 2008. The Yahoo OnePlace service, which is compatible with about 300 phone models, will offer a content management tool that provides a single place to store and view photos, links, news feeds, travel plans and 40 or so other kinds of content formatted for mobile devices, gathered from around the Web. OnePlace pulls relevant information from various Internet sources related to content of interest bookmarked by users, which the tool organizes, updates and personalizes for consumers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL0422258720080304
http://mobile.yahoo.com/oneplace;_ylt=AgCdOjlCANVl9pUNsDJlwipWtQcJ
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-23510647.htm
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080304005608
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/yahoo_oneplace_launch/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080304/tc_infoworld/95745;_ylt=AtI7vK7ugzBdkLWGisZ5GCMjtBAF

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 6:55 pm (utc) on Mar. 4, 2008]