Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace, which in early March of this year was made available as a public beta, has since inception only been presented with English language support. Today, the Web-based office suite is expanding its international reach, with support for French, Spanish and German-speaking users. (Later this week, Japanese will also be made an option.)
Office Live Workspace is described by Microsoft as an extension of its desktop-based Office software suite. In essence, it gives users the option to host and share documents remotely, which Adam Ostrow described some weeks ago as advantageous due to the direct integration it provides with Microsoft’s core set of productivity applications. Microsoft’s Office suite is used by millions upon millions of professionals all over the globe, and with the cloud being an increasingly crucial space in which groups of people may collaborate, it is only sensible that Microsoft establish a bridge for its customers to employ to work more easily via cloud while maintaining their already well-established local workflows.
With time it is expected that Microsoft will migrate more software components to the Web for editing and creating word documents and spreadsheets and so forth. For the time being, however, Office Live Workspace acts as a connection between worlds, which, with its newly expanded language support options, appears all the more valuable.mashable109:http://mashable.com/2008/05/20/office-live-workspace-languages/
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