Using MS Office, users can now be more productive by viewing, sharing, and editing their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents over the Internet using a web browser
A workspace that can be shared with others and is accessible from anywhere is fast becoming a necessity for individuals that are always on the move. Office Live Workspace is an online space provided by Microsoft for saving, accessing, and sharing documents and files. Using it one can access his/her documents from anywhere over an Internet connection via Web browser.
This tool can be used for grouping information for work, school, and personal projects. Consider an example where a team is working on different modules of the same project and all are on the move. Now to update each other about the status and to actually show the amount of work done this workspace can be of great help. To use this workspace there is no download required.
One just needs to sign up and and get a Windows live ID to start using it. The web interface of Live Workspace is very well designed, making it very easy to use. One can create office documents on their machines and directly save them in the provided Web space (using .NET passport).
Another great feature of this workspace is proper management of different versions of the same document. This helps in better understanding of content and even enables one to rollback to a previous version if required. You can also add comments to the documents for better communication. Sharing documents with other users for viewing or editing is another useful feature of this Workspace.
Other users will also need to have MS Office installed on their machines if they want to edit the documents. Viewing documents however, doesn't require this. People with MS Office installed will also need to install a Live update on their systems. This is pretty easy to do and takes just a few minutes. Once done, you can start sharing and working on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
