November 15 launched Microsoft Office Live

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed plans to launch an online application service package, Office Live, on November 15.

Office Live will include a range of online application services for contact management, organizing work schedules and online communication, targeting users who are primarily small businesses.

It is expected that Office Live will only be launched in the US, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.

Compared to the trial version released in February, the official version of Office Live will be added a feature that allows small business owners to buy online ads or bid to buy advertising keywords. appears on the Microsoft Live Search search results page.

Simplifying the purchase of advertising keywords through Office Live can be considered a new strategy of Microsfot in competing with Google in the online advertising market via search engines.

Microsoft has dominated the office application software market with the Office suite. However, now the world's No. 1 software firm decided to enter the market for online business applications because of worries about rival Google has also begun to penetrate this market with its word processing applications and online spreadsheet.

Businesses can choose to use the free version of Office Live but will have ads. Using this service package, businesses can also use free web hosting services and get 25 email accounts with their own brand.

Office Live also has two service packages that charge user fees for a fee of USD 19.95 and USD 39.95 / month. Paid to use Office Live means that businesses will have more email accounts and larger web hosting capacity.

Hoang Dung