Sunday, August 12, 2007

Microsoft Office live basics

Microsoft Office Live Product Catalog: "Microsoft Office Live Basics is the easy way to get started on the Web. If you have always wanted your own Web site, Microsoft has just made it easier — much easier. Plus, it's FREE.

Easy-to-use Web site design tools
Free domain name and Web hosting
500 MB of Web site storage space
25 company-branded e-mail accounts
Web site reports
Office Accounting Express 2007 (free download)
Microsoft Office Live adManager beta (search engine advertising tool)

FREE!"



(Via MSDN Blogs.)



I found this really interesting. I thought I'd give it a try. I'm using OS X and this showed up in Netnewswire. Clicking on the link didn't do anything. So I opened it up in firefox. The link didn't work their either.

So I followed the link to the main site, and clicked on office basics, and this is what I found:


I thought we were done with the days when a website was internet explorer only. I guess not! :(

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