If you have a customer who wants these capabilities, but does not have the resources or cash to buy it, then Office Live could be quite amazing for you.

Microsoft Office Live is coming - what is it

Today, more than ever before, an Internet presence is indispensable for small businesses. That’s why Microsoft is introducing Microsoft Office Live — a set of affordable business productivity services designed to help you grow your business more easily by establishing a professional presence online.

Microsoft Office Live will provide your company with its own domain name, Web site, and company-branded e-mail accounts for free.

Additionally, Microsoft Office Live will offer you and your employees expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced private Web site — affordably managed and maintained by Microsoft — where you can work together and share information with your employees, customers, suppliers, and contractors.

If you’re not at the stage to buy a server, set up an IT infrastructure and hire IT staff to maintain it, then Microsoft Office Live is a perfect solution for your business.

A beta version of Microsoft Office live will launch in late 2006.*

WHY MICROSOFT OFFICE LIVE?

• A professional Web site, expertly hosted by Microsoft
• A secure online workspace for organising and managing customer and business information
• A complete set of tools for managing time, tasks, projects, and company data that integrates with your existing Microsoft Office programs

Register today

* At this time, participation in the Microsoft Office Live Beta services program is open to United Kingdom residents only. Due to the number of requests received for this beta, we cannot guarantee participation for every registrant. If you are selected as a beta participant, you will receive an e-mail message from us with further information.

Source: Microsoft Office Live Worldwide