So first of all, I signed up awhile back, because I thought it was cool, and I like to participate in beta testing.

And sometimes when you apply to participate in a beta test you get accepted, and sometimes you don't. After all, the product is in beta, so I just go in wishfully thinking, and don't get overly excited until I get the actual invitation. And I never hold my breath.

In fact in the case of Office Live Workspace, I just kept the email in a labeled area of my gmail account (yep, gmail; doesn't look like the OLW team is discriminating either for or against gmail / hotmail users), and then just plain forgot about it. Since I wasn't thinking about it, that's when the invite arrived -- gotta be some cause and effect mojo going on, huh?

But if you just gotta have it, and gotta have it now (and frankly, I like it so much, I can understand why you'd feel that way), here's my suggestion, which comes right out of an actual user experience: find someone you know who uses it, and ask them to let you borrow a piece of theirs while you're waiting for your welcome invite.

In our case, I have created several workspaces for team collaboration -- and a couple of them I have virtually turned over to a different member of the team to manage.

Now, they can't create authors (I still have to do that). And they can't create new workspaces (I still have to do that, too). And they can't delete documents. And they can't keep anything secret from me; I'm the workspace owner after all (hey, I'm not suggesting this is the perfect solution; it's just a solution, and it does work). But, they can do pretty much everything else.

They can upload documents, edit documents -- hey, if they wanted to keep generic Excel workbooks or Word docs, they could add and delete tabs and chapters to their heart's content, and never have to ever again ask me to delete a document.

The only limitation is filespace. So for that reason, don't ask me to loan you a piece of our workspace; it's not going to happen. Unless I already know you. Then I might consider it. Anyway, for our team members now patiently waiting for their own accounts, this is a great interim solution.

From my perspective, there is definite issue with the sign up process and how sites are being handed out.  I signed up a few months ago when the pre-registration list was first made available.  Still nothing as of today.  On an off chance to see if new people signing up are getting their sites sooner, I asked my wife to sign up with her hotmail address last week.  Today she got an email that her Live Workspace is ready.  What is the deal?  Why is that people who only signed up in last couple of weeks are getting access over people who signed up months ago?  How do we check that we are actually still on the list?

I tried the same thing as RCK wrote earlier.  I enrolled in program with another email address approximately 1 week ago.  I just received my invite as I was reading the forums.  How is it that I enrolled a week ago with one email and received my invite but not with my original enrollment over 2 months ago?

Randy

rmenges:

I tried the same thing as RCK wrote earlier.  I enrolled in program with another email address approximately 1 week ago.  I just received my invite as I was reading the forums.  How is it that I enrolled a week ago with one email and received my invite but not with my original enrollment over 2 months ago?

 

Randy

In one way, I am glad to know that mine was not an unique experience, but it is sad that people who originally signed up as early adopters are still being over looked. Also with this second experience, I guess that the statement "....at this time we are inviting US pre-registrants into the beta on a first-come, first-served basis as quickly as possible." under the FAQs is false.  I am very interested in hearing a response from someone on the Office Live Team about the recent facts posted in this thread.
 
Is signing up under a new ID the only way to get access anytime soon?  If this is truly the case, I wish that someone on the Office Live Team would provide an option to allow us to remove our IDs from pre-registration list, so we can register again and get access to our site in a couple of weeks.  I think this would be better interim solution than having people resort to creating another Live IDs in order to get access to Office Live Workspaces anytime soon. 

Here I am, another week later and I now finally received my invite for my original signup.  My suggestion, be patient, it is worth the wait!

Randy

 Hey all. FYI:  I signed up Workspace on March 2nd, received the standard "Thank You for signing up for Windows Live Workspace and we'll have your space ready soon". So, after reading the threads on people still waiting (in some cases, months..) I figured i'd be waiting for a while. I was signing in to the Workspace Community to read some more threads tonight, and spyed the "SIgn Up" button on the homepage, so I figured what the heck, let's click the button and see what happens. So low and behold I fill out the information again, and it takes right to my workspace! I can't say for sure if it was just a coincidence or not, but those of you that have been waiting might want to give it a shot again. You might just get lucky like i did.