Microsoft Office Live Workspace is now in beta phase. If you access http://workspace.officelive.com, you will be able to edit Office documents and share them with the members of your team or with your friends. There is even a feature that allows you to synchronize the edited versions of the file being shared. This platform is hosted by Sharepoint and is Microsoft’s answer to Google docs and other web-based office applications.

Through MS Office Live, you can type your documents in a web-based word processor. Although it is inferior to the offline version of MS Word, it is pretty decent and allows you to write your documents neatly. This works best with Windows but not so much with Macs.

According to Microsoft, hundreds of thousands did sign up at the site to try this new offering. MS Office Live also offers several enhancements including activity panel, which shows the activities that you are doing in the workforce. Through the Notifications feature, you can be notified if changes have been made to your document or workspace. You can also copy direct links and allow bookmarking. The process of sharing has been improved and email addresses can be completed with lots of ease.

With the increasing popularity of web-based workspaces, are we seeing the end of offline workspaces? This remains to be seen as more and more of these applications are offered in the future.

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