Your Daily Dose Technology Injection

Microsoft opened up the beta of its Office Live Workspace to all comers today. The service, which is a hosted version of Sharepoint, is designed to let you share Office documents and sync edits. It does provide a decent (if crippled) Web-based word processor, but for the most part it forces you to use Microsoft’s desktop software to create all of your documents.

The service is also adding these features:

• Activity panel. A new activity panel shows all the activity in a workspace at a glance.
• Notifications. People can now receive e-mail notifications about changes made to their workspaces or documents.
• Direct links. People can now bookmark their workspace or a workspace item via a unique URL in a browser window.
• Multi-file upload. People can now upload several files simultaneously by simply dragging and dropping from their desktop.
• Improved sharing. New sharing functionality includes an easier user interface and auto-completion of e-mail addresses.

And it doesn’t work best for Mac’s