I am trying out Office Live Workspace beta after receiving an invitation from MS.  I'm an end-user, not a developer.  If I'm posting on the wrong forum, please let me know.

As I've floundered around learning Workspace, I've had questions.  I have noticed numerous seemingly related products:

Office Live Workspace 

Office Live Small Business (essentials & premium?)

Office Live Meeting

Office Live

Would someone please explain what is up with all of the "Live" products and where Live Workspace fits in the scheme? Also, are some of these being merged, phased out, etc.

I am also confused about Live ID sign-ins to these various product sites.  I created a forum user ID (OneDave with an email that is already a Live ID).  This allowed me to post in Office Live SMall Business.  I signed out of that account and closed the web page.  I opened the OfficeLiveWorkspaceCommunity forum site and it wanted me to create a new site user account.  I tried entering the same info as I had used for the OLSB site (OneDave and the same email), but received an error message that the email was already an existing user.  But then I was not logged in to the OLW site.  In order to get active on the OLW site, I had to create a completely different account (OneDaveWorkspace and a second email).

So, what are the various site relationships in terms of log-ins for these different products?

Thanks, Dave

Live workspace is an addition I would guess for the Live small business we sites.  I just have a basic free one for now and the other two are upgrades you can buy into.  I've yet to play with the office live meeting but I did get through some of that using my own two computers and it's a neat addition.  It is a bit confusing at first with going in and out of the workspace but I've found that if I log in and out to many times it seems to get confused so I just close out of it all and clean my history a bit.  I've learned to use the "open in new tab" a lot so I can leave them open and go back and forth between the web site, email and workspace.  Lady J

My elevator speech version:

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is more of an online companion for the Microsoft Office Suite of Products; allowing you to save "to the cloud", share, collaborate.

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is a set of services intended for Small Businesses with the aim to help them take their business online, attract customers and manage their business online.