I was messing around today with Live Mesh, Live Spaces, Sky Drive, Live Work Spaces and Office Live (research). I haven't had the opportunity to work with Office Live in quite some time. In fact it had been so long my site had been deleted (or maybe I deleted it, lol). I have included a couple of screen shots below for your review. Anyway, if you take a look at the Betas / CTP's that are now online as building blocks within Microsoft's Azure Services Platform you can get a pretty good idea of the Business Value we will be able to provide with the Azure Services Platform to our clients...
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Anyhow, it was amazing how quickly I was able to pull together a simple Brochure Site based off of the Dimension Solutions site. In less than an hour I basically cut / paste the Home Page, About Us, and Contact Us Page. I was impressed with the ease of use other than a couple of formatting issues. However, there needs to be more modules and we need to be able to add our own modules in like on Live Spaces.
Windows Live Spaces Live Services is a building block service within Microsoft's Azure Services Platform for handling user data and application resources. Developers can build rich social applications ...
If you have the time you should really take a look at the future of computing and give some thought as to how you can take advantage of the Azure Services Platform.
-Ivan