Microsoft Offive Live Beta

Today sir, introduced us to a new microsoft program on the internet in which seemed kinda interesting. Its called Microsoft Office Live Space

check it outhttp://workspace.officelive.com/?cloc=en-AU



So, what is it?
Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is your online place to save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. No downloads are required—just sign up and go. WOW!!

Microsoft Office Live Workspace allows you to;

• Access files from anywhere


• View documents from almost any computer with a Web browser


• No more flash drives—files are there when and where you need them
  Password-protected sharing; you control who views and edits your work


• Work with programs you know


• Save over 1,000 Microsoft Office documents in one online place


• Open and save files from familiar programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  Synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Outlook
  
  
  

Discuss the nature of the workplace with Microsoft Office Live Beta?

Advantages include;

• No flashdrives required



• Free



• Allows you to share it to whomever you allow



• no need for USB in order to transfer work documenets to and from home



• they do all the setup and servers for you



• less work required in at a personal level - no instalation needed; provided internally



• includes spreadsheets



• online work with resources and has its own resources



• New and updates, has microsoft 2007 and may save either in a 2007 or 2003 format

Disadvantage include;

• the requiering of a high internet capacity - fast internet



• Although it may be similar to Google Docs, in order to work needs a browser


• May have a file Limit, meaning for buissness purposes requires a large amount of storage
  

This whole system of working on the internet is called CLOUD COMPUTING.

Cloud computing is working on something on the internet, that is has both your application and data.

Another extra fact we learnt was that smartphones does voice recognition or speech recognition.

It is a type application in programs found on computers and even on phones now that convert spoken words to machine readable input, basically words. I'm guesssing this would muchly would be used for when you want subtitles on your tv, for live shows.