which was later renamed (see Microsoft 365). Launched in 2007, Office Live Workspace provided online storage and collaboration for Office desktop applications. It was superseded by SkyDrive (see ...

Microsoft finally responds to Google's challenge to its Office monopoly by rolling out a half-measure, "Office Live Workspace", which allows users to save Excel, Word and other documents online.

With the launch of its first formal reseller program for Google Apps Premier Edition, Google is now battling Microsoft directly in the channel with a full cloud computing productivity suite.