Microsoft Office Live

Office Live is aimed at small businesses with 10 employees or less. The Member Center allows the user to navigate the different applications in the service, including e-mail, Web site design and business applications.

Microsoft Office Live Business Applications are Web-based. The Project Manager can be used, for example, by a sales team to track projects using a secure, shared workspace.

Office Live Collaboration, a hosted version of SharePoint, allows users to set up secure, shared workspaces and provides business tools for customer, project and sales management.

Office Live Essentials includes Site Designer, a hosted version of FrontPage, to help users with more advanced Web site design.

Office Live Essentials includes tools that will enable small businesses to perform Web traffic monitoring.

Office Live Mail is a branded version of Hotmail. Office Live Basic users will get five free e-mail accounts, while Office Live Essentials users will get 50 e-mail accounts. (Office Live Essentials and Office Live Collaboration will start at a subscriptio