Time for a recap

Posted By: Louise Rasho on 02-27-2009

Wow, it's been a busy week for both Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace, with lots of new enhancements to announce. We've already gotten a lot of feedback; we're reading all of it, so please keep it coming!

Multiple posts have gone up about the recent changes, so I thought it would be helpful to summarize everything in one handy post. So here goes:

  • New look, new workspace. Your account is sporting a bit of a makeover, with basic navigation moved up to the header area. Part of that makeover gives you quick access to your own Office Live Workspace Beta, a free service that allows you to easily store and share documents online very handy when sharing documents between employees, customers or vendors. (Read the details.)
  • More design options. You've asked for more flexibility when it comes to designing your site and now you've got it. We've introduced custom color options, more layouts to choose from, easy drag action zone resizing and custom background options. Plus, now you can also add a new PayPal module that makes selling a small number of products very simple to implement. (Read the details.)
  • 5GB storage, folders, and more. The Office Live Workspace service has been revved up with 5GB of storage, so you can store lots more Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, photos  just about any file format you choose. Plus, you can now keep these files better organized with the new Folders feature, and easily move files with the cut/copy/paste options. (Read the details.)
  • New Community sites. A great new layout for our blogs, new Wikis, question-and-answer sections, videos, and a whole lot more  we've put a lot of work into making the new Office Live Small Business Community and the Office Live Workspace Community great resources to help you do more with these services. (Read the details here and here.)

So now that you've had a few days to play around with these enhancements, what do you think? Please feel free to leave a comment and let us know.

 

Louise Rasho

Comments

crazycats wrote re: Time for a recap
on 02-28-2009 11:32 AM

I'm really impressed at the usability of the site - I've been taking web design and front-end web dev classes, and I have to say that I admire what you're doing.  Thanks!

satbn wrote re: Time for a recap
on 03-02-2009 1:24 PM

It's great to see the enhancements coming. However, it would be good if you can advertise a specific place where we can log the issues/bugs that we see in the new version. Otherwise, we end up putting it in the forum making way for an extra effort for MSFT to pick bugs from the forum posts.

-sat

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Small Business Team Blog wrote New how-to videos show our design features in action
on 04-10-2009 1:43 PM

We've told you about our new Web Site features at Office Live Small Business, and how Web design

PaulNieuwoudt wrote re: Time for a recap
on 09-01-2009 9:16 AM

how do I index my free office live website on  goolge and yahoo.  I can;t get it verified.

Please contact me at paul@youhavemail.co.za

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