Recently, my sister in India, was switching jobs after 11 years with the same company. She wanted to take all her personal documents, ranging from resume, contact list, Intl trip information for various countries, event management documents, school work etc. from her work PC to her home computer. Her solution was to email herself and her husband most of the documents. The remainder of the documents went in a thumb drive, which she bought specifically for this purpose. She chuckled 'I wish it was easier to keep all this in one place and be able to get to it from anywhere.'
 
Now I am delighted to have an answer for her – Office Live Workspace!

Today, we are announcing the public availability of Office Live Workspace to English-speaking users worldwide. With this, English-speaking users can use this service for free and access and share their documents and other information online anywhere globally. We look forward to adding additional languages this year too!

On another note, last night in New York , in advance of the worldwide availability announcement, Jeremy Piven, actor and star of the TV show Entourage, along with Entourage’s series creator and executive producers, made an appearance at Microsoft's New York City lounge to 'test drive’ the new technology and give a live demonstration of how an episode could be written using Microsoft Office Live Workspace.

Finally, we’re proud that the early beta has been chosen by the editors of CNET Webware.com as a finalist in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards.  If you’ve enjoyed beta testing Office Live Workspace so far, please let us know by voting at:

Thanks for all the great feedback.  We hope new users from other parts of the globe will let us know what you like and don’t like in the community forums!