Archive for February, 2006

Office on the web

Monday, February 27th, 2006

A new trend to collaborative enterprise wide working culture is catching up on the web. A new trend, all Blue-Giants are looking at. A trend to empower the common people to create, update and share there work in a collaborative fashion and enhance the overall team efficiency to a new high level.Global giants like Microsoft and Google are all ready on the race, though Microsoft is ahead of Google with it’’s beta version of products like Office Live at present. but Google is also catching up very fast with it’’s hosted email service for organizations and there are signs of an impending Google Calendar product and Page Creation service.Sound interesting, then you can also try a few all ready on the web for FREE. Writely, NumSum, IRows, BaseCamp, Zimbra, Goowy to name a few of them. All Most all are trying to catch up the trend of collaborative CMS on the web. (more…)

Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta - Free web hosting for you from Microsoft

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Don"t miss the opportunity to host your dream website for free. Host your personal site or business site, it does not matter to Microsoft, they are in mood to catch the netizens with the Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta offering. Microsoft Office Live Basics provides your company with its own domain name, hosting, Web site, and e-mail accounts for free.Hosting features you can avail for free are as follows:

  • Free hosting
  • 30 MB of Web site storage
  • 10 GB of bandwidth
  • No setup or hidden fees
  • Online customer support
  • Daily backup (data retained for 30 days)

To use Microsoft Office Live Basics, you need the following: 

  • Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 4 (SP4) or later running on Windows 98,
  • Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003
  • Internet access via dial-up or broadband
  • Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution display
  • Certain features require Microsoft Office 2000 or higher
  • Certain features require Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, Microsoft Office 2000 or later, and Windows XP