The Office Live Guy

As someone who does work from home sometimes - admittedly mostly during evenings and weekends :-), it’s always interested to read about how Microsoft technologies can help. I came across these two articles which provide some useful pointers : Make a good...

At last week’s Business Startup Show , several visitors asked if they could use various website editing tools with Office Live. The answer is a resounding ‘Yes’. The beauty of Office Live is that you start with the basic templates, which are very easy...

Now that the Beta of Office 2010 is publicly available, anyone can try the Office Web Apps on Windows Live as follows : 1) Download the Office 2010 beta , installing it onto your PC 2) Save a document to SkyDrive from Office 2010 : ...

The Beta for Office 2010 was made available for download on 18th November 2009. Get it here : http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx There’s also a comprehensive website, called http://www.office2010themovie.com/ , which is designed to share...

If you want to meet the Microsoft Office Live team, put a marker in your diary to attend the Business Startup Show at Olympia London on 26th and 27th November 2009. Alongside the Microsoft stand (showing Office Live, Windows 7 & Microsoft Advertising...

With thousands of people around the globe testing the Office Web Apps, some of the uses to which they’re being put are starting to emerge. I particularly liked this story about a PowerPoint presentation, made to a University class, from a basic netbook...

I often come across people who would like to use an html editor, rather than the templates provided, to build their website on Office Live. You can use any html editing tool with Office Live but have to go through a couple of simple steps first : Within...

I regularly read the Office Live Small Business blog , as it often contains some useful tips that I wouldn’t have necessarily have thought of. An article posted this week delves into the importance of colour choice for your website, highlighting this...

I was just scanning the Office Live Workspace blog and came across this article about how Office Live Workspace can help make your Netbook handy anywhere . The premise of the article is that for some users, putting an Office Suite on your Netbook is...

Office Live Workspace on it’s own is a very useful tool. For instance, the 5GB of free storage space can be used as a backup for important files. The browser preview of Office documents allows full fidelity viewing of those files from any internet connected...

The Technical Preview of Office Web Applications has just been added to a select group of Skydrive users around the world. Check out the video below to learn more about what’s coming with the Word Web App, Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App and OneNote...

Downtime is a rarity with Office Live, but an announcement has just gone out that on Saturday September 12th 2009 and Saturday September 19th 2009, there will be some periods of planned outage. All customers will be sent an email to this effect later...

There seems to be an increase in hackers trying to get into your inbox, enticing you and all of your contacts to click on links that have very undesirable outcomes. This doesn’t just affect Office Live mail but is occurring in all email systems, so watch...

This year we decided to take a summer break at home in England; the Blackdown Hills of Devon in the south-west of the country, to be precise. As fairly keen walkers, we have a great love of the open countryside and a growing interest in all things...

As of 1st October 2009, Microsoft Office Live Small Business will no longer offer free domain name renewals. For details of how this will affect your Web site and e-mail, or to learn how to renew your domain, please review the following list of frequently...

Paipoglide is a great little company, based in Cornwall, building custom surfboards by hand from a variety of wood materials. The result is a board which not only functions superbly on the waves, but is also a sculptural piece in its own right honed using...

This is quite a well-designed Office Live website, put together for a very sad reason. Harley is unfortunately critically ill with meningitus B and the site talks about the disease, a fund-raising charity bike ride from John O’Groats to Lands End,...

There’s been quite a bit written about Microsoft’s plans to offer its core Office applications as ‘Web Apps’ A new blog has just been started this month, giving some useful information on how the Web Apps are being developed and what the guiding principles...

Microsoft Wave is a new portal that shows the breadth of new technology that the company is involved in. There are sections on : Hardware – Mediaroom, Surface & Xbox 360 Software – Online services, Worldwide Telescope and Gaming Some key technology...

It’s official. The second service pack update to Office 2008 for Mac improves speed and stability whilst also adding new features for connecting to SharePoint servers and to Microsoft's Office Live Workspace . Office Live Workspace is also now expanding...

";" galleryimg="no"> With Microsoft Office being used worldwide by in excess of 500 million active users each day, its fair to say that it is one of the most popular pieces of software in existence. So where does Microsoft go next ? How do...

An innovative recruitment company, called AvailableLocal.com, have just launched their services on an Office Live website at www.availablelocal.com . Their proposition is based around supporting sustainable local employment, in an attempt to drastically...

According to this blog entry by respected writer Mary-Jo Foley, there’s a survey doing the rounds soliciting feedback on some proposed names for the new Office Web Applications – that’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote delivered in the browser. ...

For all Mac users out there, Office Live Workspace now has Safari support, detailed here : http://workspace.officelive.com/FAQ#6 This is good news for Office Live generally. As far back as 2006 , Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie was talking about how...

With the sad news that Michael Jackson passed away yesterday, I can confess to having searched online for a few video clips of the genius at work. Whilst doing this, it occurred to me that this might be a good time to test the new video embedding module...