Microsoft has formally launched Office Live, a combination of two of their flagship offerings. Microsoft Office and Live.com their new slimmed down Google-like search engine.
In an attempt to ease the burden of small business owners managing the infrastructure of required to operate online. The Microsoft Office Live, provides all the basics required to go from bricks and mortar to clicks and hits. The program offers free webhosting, free custom domain name and 100 custom email addresses for the 1st year. Small businesses that participate also get $100 in ad credits to be used on Microsoft, MSN and Live.com properties.
The real benefit, is the backend that is provided. Most businesses can easily enough register a domain name and find a inexpensive webhost. But the typical low cost webhost a small business would use could not provide the back end tools you find with this impressive year long free trial offer. From online project management to document management to password protected shred workspaces for employees, partners, clients and vendors. This full featured trial is certainly worth a look.
At this time there are no charges involved to sign up, get your free domain name and webhosting. FreeOfferGuide.com hopes that when the time comes to start charging for these services that our friends from Microsoft don’t miss the target. It seems they have a tendency to do that, but so far with this project they have hit the bullseye.
