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

• New Demo Addresses Versioning

  11-19-2008 by Post

    Lisa Smith, Technical Writer   As always, we are listening to your feedback and one topic that comes up again and again is the confusion about how to save versions of your documents in Office Live Workspace. For those of you who prefer to...

• More from EDUCAUSE

  11-13-2008 by Post

    Ural Cebeci, Senior Product Manager   Greetings. As promised, I want to give you a quick update on the reactions and the feedback we received at the EDUCAUSE Conference ( see previous post ), where we announced the upcoming availability of...

• It's all Greek to me!

  11-06-2008 by Post

  Oli Messenger, Program Manager Greetings, fine people of the Internet. Today we updated Office Live Workspace with some cool new additions.  First of all, we’ve added yet more languages—Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish...

• Microsoft extends Office to the browser via...

  10-28-2008 by Post

  Ural Cebeci, Senior Product Manager Hi. I’m Ural Cebeci, a senior product manager on the Office Live team. This week I’m at the EDUCAUSE Conference in Orlando, Florida—an information technology event for higher education. We’re...

• Recovering deleted documents is easy

  09-26-2008 by Post

  Posted on behalf of Lisa Holland Smith, Technical Writer   Does this sound familiar? Your workspace is crowded with so many outdated documents that it’s hard to find the ones you use most frequently. You clean out your workspace by sending...

• A big thank you to our one million customers

  09-03-2008 by Post

    by Nicole Richard, Marketing Manager

  Today, Office Live Workspace beta hit an important milestone. In six short months we have reached over one million customers – thanks to all of you! You have shared your stories, your successes, and your challenges, which have provided us the feedback to keep making this product better—including additional Firefox support and more languages (we just added Brazilian Portuguese today!) We hope that you continue to enjoy this product that we are working so hard to make for you—our customers.

• Use direct links to point people to your...

  08-22-2008 by Post

  

  Posted on behalf of Nate Keyes, Technical Writer

  Okay, so your class has divided up in teams of three to organize your own election campaigns. You need a campaign timeline, to-do lists, campaign brochures, a press release, a ..

• Upgrade from IE6 to IE7 to get the best performance...

  08-21-2008 by Post

  

  Posted on behalf of Vani Mandava, Program Manager, Office Live Workspace

   

  Are you using the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser to access Office Live workspace? Over the past few months we’ve received feedback from some users regarding performance issues when using Office Live Workspace on IE6. Thanks to all of you who provided this feedback! From what we heard in the forums and elsewhere, we learned customers were experiencing extremely slow performance loading Office Live Workspace in IE6 and, in some cases, IE6 would hang. This is obviously an unacceptable experience so we have been working hard to find a solution.

• More languages, new Firefox enhancements

  08-13-2008 by Post

   

  Posted on behalf of Sanjeevini, Office Live Workspace Product Manager

  Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta in five additional languages for international markets: Dutch, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Traditional Chinese. That raises the number of languages in which the service is available to 10.

• Firefox enhancements

  08-13-2008 by Post

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Posted on behalf of Avrum, Office Live Workspace Program Manager

   

  Firefox users: You asked for better browser support, and today we’re thrilled to unveil new enhancements that make the Office Live Workspace experience much better in Firefox.

• (Limited) Polish language lessons

  08-13-2008 by Post

   

  Posted on behalf of Oli, Office Live Workspace Program Manager

  I’m excited to announce that Office Live Workspace beta is now available in five additional languages: Italian, Dutch, Polish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. This brings our total number of languages to 10, a number that you can expect to see increase over the coming months.

• Helping our users

  07-31-2008 by Post

  > I know how frustrating it is to have a bug and wait until something is done about it. As a user a couple of months back, I recall thinking: “Gosh, can’t they just fix this?!?” Well, if you’ve worked in the software industry you know that maintenance is a big challenge, and we are no stranger to that problem. We do our best and we work very hard to get all those bugs out before we ship, but sometimes we miss a case or two.
  Filed under: Roni Burd

• Preview a shared workspace or document

  07-28-2008 by Post

     Lisa Holland Smith, Technical Writer

  As you make your travel plans this summer, don’t forget to use Office Live Workspace to share your itinerary with friends and family.  It’s a smart way to make sure everybody has access to the most recent details of your trip in case they need to reach you.

• Your comments matter? Doh!

  07-02-2008 by Post

  > We really read the posts and consider the changes you send. Although we may not be as fast as you want us to be in making those changes, we sure take notice. We’ve seen a lot of great ideas that we evaluate and try to address in future iterations. It’s harder than it looks to satisfy everyone, but it is definitely our goal.
  Filed under: Roni Burd

• Go Green!

  06-30-2008 by Post

    by Susan Woodside, Team Editor

  One of the reasons I’m excited about Office Live Workspace is that it’s a service that can replace the many pieces of paper we need to manage our busy lives with online documents that we can share with others. Remember the “paperless office?”