Thanks to all who pre-registered for the Office Live Workspace beta! We’ve had an extraordinary number of pre-registrations since we announced the product at the beginning of October. Naturally, we’ve received many inquiries from people about when the beta will go live. Here’s a quick update. The service is in alpha-testing now; we have over 1000 people internally and externally using...

I'm relatively new to Microsoft. I joined about a year ago, coming from a small startup with roots out of Carnegie Mellon University . In fact, I've spent most of my career getting startup technology companies up and running -- first as a marketing strategist, then as a venture capitalist, and more recently as an entrepreneur. So, I'm used to the ambiguity, the rapid rate of change, and...

Hi everybody. My name is Kirk Gregersen and I’m what we call a product manager. My team actually covers both Office Live Workspace and our Office desktop suites for small businesses and people at home. Being a product manager across Office and Office Live Workspace gives me a great chance to talk with people about how they’d like the service to work with Office on their desktop, laptop...

Hi. I'm what you might call the community manager. I'm responsible for this platform in terms of the features and functions it delivers, how it looks, and how it evolves. Generally speaking, we have two broad goals in mind. The first is to deliver a simple team blog: a place from which we can add our voice to the conversation. The second goal is somewhat more ambitious. In time we'd like...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the Office Live Workspace team formed from great people all across Microsoft (and some colleges around the world, too) to change the face of collaborating on Office documents. We had been hearing from customers for years that they were frustrated with merging multiple versions of the same Excel spreadsheet as it got passed back and forth in long email threads...