What's In a Name? (aka What Office Live Small Business Is Not)

The marketing folks at Microsoft often come up with confusing names for their products. Then they change the already confusing names several times further adding to the confusion. As a result, there are several Microsoft products that sound suspiciously similar to Office Live Small Business or one... [More]

Signing Up for Office Live Small Business? Check Out These Introductory Webcasts

There are three introductory webcasts about Signing up for Office Live Small Business Working with e-mail Getting started with a web site on Microsoft's UK Small Business web site. They show the UK version of Office Live Small Business, but they're equally useful for all ... [More]

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008

News that Bill Gates will retire soon and devote himself to philanthropy made big news a couple of months ago. What you may not have noticed is that his company, Microsoft, is increasingly dabbling in philanthropy too. In the last couple of years, Microsoft has steadily rolled out a long lin... [More]

Introducing Office Live Small Business

Maintaining a web site is an expensive proposition. Just the domain registration and basic web hosting can cost in the neighborhood of $100 a year. If all you have to show for it is a few pages of information that no one is ever likely to see, the expense is hardly justifiable. The e-mail accounts... [More]

Office Live Small Business Now Offers Private Domain Registrations

In case you don't know about it, Office Live Small Business has started offering private domain registration for $6.95 per year. Not a bad rate. Even GoDaddy charges $6.99 per year. When you sign up for private domain registration, your contact information in your domain registrar's ... [More]

Office Live Domain Registration FAQ

Who is the Registrar for the domains registered through Office Live? MelbourneIT, Ltd. Can I register my domain with another registrar? Yes. But You'll have to manage the DNS entries yourself. Is the domain registration from Office Live "private"? Not by default, but ... [More]