Commentary and discussion of the Workspace product: where it's been, where it's going, and what you can do with it.

January 2008 - Posts

• Workspace and the University Experience

  01-28-2008 by Post

  I was recently visiting University of Washington chatting with students about Office Live Workspace and web productivity. It was clear to me that email is still the de-facto standard for collaboration. Every one of the students I talked to used Microsoft Office whether on their MAC or PC. So that was great to see. J But they all seemed to...
  Filed under: education, student, Eric Gilmore

• Pre-registration update #2

  01-17-2008 by Post

  We invited the first group of beta users into the service in December, and since then it has been exciting to invite increasingly larger batches of US pre-registrants into the service every few weeks. We’re working hard to get through the pre-registration list as quickly as possible. Recent...
  Filed under: evan lew

• Viva the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show!

  01-15-2008 by Post

  As a Product Manager, there is nothing more rewarding than meeting with customers, listening to their stories, helping them with problems, and showing off new products. Sixteen of us (Kim, Marlowe, Anne, Jeff, Amber, Tammy, Christy, Eric, Michael, Baris, Justin, Kirk, Evan, Matthias, Skip, and me) demonstrated Office Live Workspace to thousands of customers at CES.
  Filed under: ces, Guy Gilbert

• Should you use Office Live Workspace?

  01-14-2008 by Post

  We all get it - The value prop for Office Live Workspace is go anywhere and still access your documents. I can now upload my documents to my workspace, share it with my team, go to Mexico, lounge in the sun (sigh), then walk into the nearest Internet cafe with my tourist hat on, just log in with my Live ID and then view the document, even if Office is not installed.
  Filed under: kavitha

• Office and Office Live Workspace

  01-09-2008 by Post

  There have been several questions in the forums recently relating to how the various versions of Office work with your workspace. The very kind people from the UA team put together the following table that I hope makes the integration between your workspace and your Office product clear.
  Filed under: bob rebholz, office integration