Jennifer Paoletti

Office Live WorkspaceBasics provides a user with its own

domain name, and the ability to create their own website. It also provides periodic web site traffic reports. The package includes 25 e-mail accounts under the registered domain. Even though this service is free, Microsoft still requires a credit card number.

Collaboration includes the ability to share documents and organize events, but does not include a website or a first level domain. Collaboration is currently in beta for all locales.

Microsoft Visio is diagramming software for Microsoft Windows. It uses vector graphics to

create diagrams.

Outlook 2007A personal information manager from

Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, a journal and web browsing.

It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, public folders and meeting time

Groove 2007At its most basic level, Groove is desktop

software designed to facilitate collaboration and communication among small groups. It is a Windows-based commercial product. The central Groove paradigm is the shared workspace, a set of files to be shared plus some aids for group collaboration. A Groove user creates a workspace and then invites other Groove users into it. Each person who responds to an invitation becomes a member of that workspace and is sent a copy of the workspace that is installed on his or her hard drive.

Access 2007Microsoft Office Access, previously known

as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface. It is a member of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Access can use data stored in Access/Jet, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant data container. Skilled software developers and data architects use it to develop application software. Relatively unskilled programmers and non-programmer "power users" can use it to build simple applications. It supports some object-oriented techniques but falls short of being a fully object-oriented development tool.

Excel 2007Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet

application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation and graphing tools which, along with aggressive marketing, have made Excel one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. It is overwhelmingly the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms.

Word 2007It is a component of the Microsoft

Office system; however, it is also sold as a standalone product and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 version, the branding was revised to emphasize Word's identity as a component within the Office suite: Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office Word instead of merely Microsoft Word.

Power point 2007Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program

developed by Microsoft for its Microsoft Office system. Microsoft PowerPoint runs on Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS computer operating systems.

It is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology. Beginning with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft revised branding to emphasize PowerPoint's identity as a component within the Office suite: Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of merely Microsoft PowerPoint. The current version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint is Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. As a part of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office PowerPoint has become the world's most widely used presentation program.

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