Microsoft has clearly done a great job pushing its Windows Live services as consumers have downloaded them nearly half a billion times. But its Office Live suite of productivity services, designed to work together with its Office desktop application, really went nowhere - to say the least. On top of that, Office Live branched into two services: Workspace, which is offered free of charge; and a paid version dubbed Small Business. Still, only Microsoft could see meaningful value in offering both Office Live services. Now, however, the company has decided to combine Office Live and Windows Live into one single service that meshes their respective development teams together in an effort to simplify the experience.
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