The thing about useful stuff is: Microsoft's online offering for small business

Microsoft's online offering for small business Thursday, May 22, 2008

Image via WikipediaA good friend suggested that I take a look at the services that Microsoft have bundled up for small businesses as part of their Office Live offering. You can find the details here but briefly it includes

domain and email hosting
web site creation and management tools
contact management facilities
document storage and collaboration capabilities
project management tools

Most of the offering is free, with some chargeable elements for "premium" components. Sadly the storage included is not as generous as offered by others at 250mb - even my free Gmail email account has 6gb these days.

Sadly lacking from the offering are online word processing, email, spreadsheet or slide tools, of the kind offered for free by Zoho and Google. Perhaps they will appear in the future........