"Office Live Beta" that can acquire domain names free of charge and build sites



One free domain of com, net, org can be registered free of charge. Every year, as long as you continue to use the service, Microsoft will pay for your domain instead. If you quit the service in the middle, that domain name will be yours. In that case it is natural to pay by yourself .... It is also possible to bring in your own domain. You can also use the JP domain for a fee.

In terms of what kind of service it is, it is an online service suitable for individual business owners or small businesses, in the case of the free version of "Microsoft Office Live Basics Beta", one unique domain, 25 e-mail accounts (1 The capacity of the count is 2 GB) · Web site hosting (capacity 500 MB) · Web design tool (that you are using AJAX) · Traffic report tool · Data backup (data of one day ago is saved) is available. In short, it's a ridiculous service that you can have your own website of reasonable quality for free.

Now we are offering free beta, so you can use free version for free. Details are as follows.
Comprehensive Internet service to support small businesses Started trial of Microsoft (R) Office Live Japanese version

Outline of application and service is from the official website below.

Office Live home page - Microsoft Office Online

During the beta period, free of charge, except for additional services, is free. However, credit card number is required for sign up. Once you sign up to Office Live, you will be charged 1 dollar for confirmation and this charge will be canceled once it is confirmed that it actually exists, so there is actually no 1 dollar payment to happen.

In addition, in the paid version of "Office Live Essentials", the free version has been upgraded, the number of e-mail accounts has increased from 20 to 50, the capacity of the site has increased from 500 MB to 1 GB, and furthermore Outlook 2002 (XP) Cooperation becomes possible, and each user is provided with a dedicated Windows SharePoint Service-based workspace. The number of accounts in this special workspace is 10, and the dedicated workspace storage capacity is 500 MB. Contact management tool and file / picture sharing tool are included. Also with telephone support. The price is undecided, but since it is provided in the US at a rate of $ 19.95 per month, it probably will be about 2000 yen ~ 2,500 yen per month.

Even higher version "Office Live Premium" adds additional functions to the Essentials function. First of all, there is no change in the number of e-mail addresses, but the capacity of the website will be 2 GB. The number of accounts in the special workspace also changed from 10 to 20, the capacity per workspace also changed from 500 MB to 1 GB. In addition to contact management tool and file / image sharing tool, project management tool · groupware · template etc. are added. As for this, the price is still unknown in Japan, but since it is 39.95 dollars per month in the United States, in Japan it may be about 4000 yen to 4,700 yen per month.

Below is a table of comparison around here.

Microsoft Office Live Comparison Chart

It seems to me that there is a limit on the amount of data transfer - but it seems that with a non-free plan you can migrate your site using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. I guess it's not like Uploading with FTP ......?

As for the domain name, after acquiring it with "Microsoft Office Live Beta", I can not move to another company for 60 days.

The list of additional services for paid are as follows.

Comprehensive internet service supporting small business offices Started trial operation of Microsoft (R) Office Live Japanese version

It is quite interesting service. great.

in Web Service, Posted by darkhorse_log