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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Virtual Pressroom

Office System Developer Conference 2008

View Bill Gates’ Feb. 11 keynote address in San Jose in which he announces the availability of the new
version of Office Live Small Business.

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Press Releases

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Gives Entrepreneurial Women Strategies for Building a Successful Business (March 26, 2008)

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Launches New Tools and Enhances Free Service to Help Small Businesses Sell and Market Online (Feb. 10, 2008)

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Media Alert: New Microsoft Office Live Small Business Offering Helps Small Businesses Get Started With Search Engine Marketing (Oct. 3, 2007)

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Microsoft Charts Its Software Services Strategy and Road Map for Businesses (Sept. 30, 2007)

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Media Alert: Microsoft Office Live Teams Up With Entrepreneur.com to Offer Free Advice to Small-Business Owners on How to Improve Their Web Sites (Sept. 18, 2007)

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Media Alert: Microsoft Office Accounting and Microsoft Office Live Team Up With City of Miami to Help Students and Entrepreneurs (Aug. 27, 2007)

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Guerrilla Marketing Guru Al Lautenslager Provides Small-Business Owners With Tips on How to Market Their Business (July 25, 2007)

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Microsoft Office Live Adds Ask Sponsored Listings to Its Small-Business Search Engine Advertising Service (July 17, 2007)

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Microsoft Office Live Launches Partner Program, Helps Partners Reach Small Businesses (July 10, 2007)

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Microsoft and Best Buy Help Make Web Presence Simple and Affordable for Small Businesses (Feb. 21, 2007)

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Marquis Jet Joins With Microsoft Office Live to Take Small-Business Customers to New Heights With “High Level” Sweepstakes (Feb. 21, 2007)

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Microsoft Office Live Is Now LIVE in the U.S. and Available in Beta in France, Germany, U.K. and Japan (Nov. 15, 2006)

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Microsoft Office Live Opens the Channel to a Rich New Revenue Stream for Partners (Nov. 15, 2006)

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Microsoft Office Live Will Launch Web Service to Help Small Businesses Attract Customers, Generate Repeat Business (Oct. 31, 2006)

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Microsoft Launches Beta Program for Microsoft Office Live Services (Feb. 15, 2006)

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Microsoft Previews New Windows Live and Office Live Services (Nov. 1, 2005)

Product Information

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Microsoft Office Live Small Business Fact Sheet (.doc file, 93 KB, Sept. 2008)

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Microsoft Office Live Reviewer's Guide (.pdf file, 43 pgs., 4.2 MB, Jan. 2008)

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Microsoft’s Live Offerings (Nov. 2005)

Feature Stories

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Q&A: Microsoft Office Live Works Round the Clock to Meet Small Business Needs (Oct. 31, 2006)

Executive Biographies

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Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office Live


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Activity pane helps you keep track of what’s happening in your workspace and email notifications so you always know when the people you share your workspace with make updates.
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A new Share workspace UI to easily invite others to your workspace. Enables users to quickly add people from Windows Live addresses book (contacts from Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger) and people you have shared with before. Users can also include more details in their invitations with the larger message box.
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Add multiple documents button makes it is easier than ever to bring your documents into a workspace by browsing and selecting files from your computer or dragging and dropping files on the document uploader.
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Home is the first page users see after signing in to Office Live Small Business — a complete dashboard for you to manage your online services. From Home, you can access all the primary services — including Web site design, e-mail, traffic reporting and additional services — and navigate easily between these services. A useful new feature is a Reports tool gadget that shows you at a glance the number of unique visitors and page views for the current week and the previous two weeks, and how traffic has been impacted with the service’s sales and marketing features (including e-mail or search marketing campaigns).
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In this release, Contact Manager is now included free to all customers and is the foundation of customer marketing. It includes an improved user interface that enables you to find and add contacts more efficiently and provides integration with E-mail Marketing beta, an improved Web site Contact Us module that automatically adds site visitors into the Contact Manager tool, and the automatic listing of all e-mail marketing campaigns in the recent activities list for each contact.
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With Team Workspace, you can use the Web to post documents and information you’d like to access remotely or share with customers, employees or business partners in a password-protected environment — without the hassle and version-control issues that arise when collaboration of this kind is managed over e-mail or with hard copies and handwritten edits. In this release, Team Workspace is included free to all customers.
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Information is at the core of most businesses. Document Manager gives your company its own online repository for important company documents, pictures and information. By keeping documents easily accessible, you can help ensure your team has access to the most up-to-date information on the business.
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It’s easy for you to add or create new business applications. In addition to the two popular applications that we have already provisioned (Team Workspace and Document Manager), you can easily add any of more than 20 additional applications by using the Add Application feature within the Business Applications section. As shown, this takes you to a new wizard with six categories of applications such as Collaborate with coworkers and clients, Manage your business and Schedule meetings and events.
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The Page Editor tool allows you to customize any single page within your Office Live Small Business Web site. You can change the layout and navigation, as well as place customized modules that insert pre-designed blocks of content, such as maps and directions, stocks, weather and more.
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Once you’ve finished updating your site with Page Editor or Site Designer, simply click “save” and the finished page is ready to view. It’s as easy as using a word-processing program.
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Putting products online opens up a world of sales opportunities for small businesses. With the Store Manager e-commerce feature, you can easily create your own fully customized online store and sell on eBay — one of the most popular and trusted online shopping sites. The ability to do both and manage sales from a single centralized console is a distinguishing feature of Office Live Small Business.
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After you have set up shipping and payment methods, you can create your product catalog. Store Manager lets you create up to 10,000 products with 6 images each. Store Manager even allows you to bulk upload/download products, to bulk upload product images, and to bulk list products to each marketplace. You can also configure sales tax settings and set up payment processing using the service PayPal Express.
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E-mail Marketing Beta from Office Live Small Business allows you to send newsletters, promotional offers, announcements and company updates with just a few clicks. You can create the look and feel that’s right for your business by using the Page Editor feature to create customized e-mail. In addition, you can easily create and update mailing lists with Contact Manager, track the success of your campaigns with detailed reports, and monitor bounced e-mail and any requests to unsubscribe.
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