Office is dead. Long live Office!

With all due respects to MSFT, I decided to write this blog using IE! :-) I just had a high registering and creating one of our websites in little over 2 hours and having the ability to modify almost anything. Welcome to OfficeLive - Microsoft's new (almost) beta avatar. It let's you register your domain, design your website, have 50 email accounts, get website traffic reports, optimize your website -- all for....well...FREE! It was just nice to pick certain templates, modify what I wanted, change colors, type the content and just get going - especially when I didn't want a too complicated website. One obvious bummer is you can't use OfficeLive on a Mozilla browser (of course). It again brings to question the company's game plan in balancing between canibalizing its Office sales and not missing the boat on software-as-a-service models. As I hear from behind the corporate walls, the company expects small and medium business to quite simply shift gears to a hosted-model and the biggies to continue buying them pricey products.