Come and see us! The Microsoft Small Business team would love to meet you at Business Startup , Olympia, London on 26 or 27 November. We’ll have Windows 7 on display so you can have a look at some of the great new features and try it out for yourself. You’ll also find our colleagues from Office Live if you want to have a chat about a free website – yes, it is free. They can tell you about Office Live Workspace as well, which offers 5 GB of free online storage, providing access to documents from any

We’ve got a great crop of new business articles on the Small Business website: 5 Time-saving tips with Outlook 2007 It’s question time! Cloud computing in a nutshell – technology terms disentangled 10 Top Tweets to follow Creating a web presence without breaking the bank . Worth a look!

Today's always-on-and-available-anywhere technology can lead to addictive work habits. We've all seen examples of that among friends and family. But having a cheap, convenient, 24/7 global reach through technology can also efficiently enable you to live the life you've always wanted. The choice is yours. Use Voice-over-Internet protocol phone service (VoIP) to create a virtual office. You've probably heard about such affordable services, which, basically, use the Internet to send and receive calls.

‘Free’ is a tricky word – companies like Microsoft don’t like to use it because if you say ‘free training course’ the cost of driving to the venue is not free of course. And your time isn’t free either. So, accepting that you still have to pay for your internet connection, office space and time, etc, here are some FREE resources that might go some way to smoothing the ever-increasing financial burdens we’re all suffering from. Get a free company domain, website and email with Microsoft Office Live

What you normally do when you need to share a document with someone - your book-keeper for example, or a colleague who's away somewhere? Email? And then wait for them to send an amended copy back, that you have to remember to save? Or stick it on a memory stick perhaps? Wouldn't it be easier if you had an online workspace where you could access documents, no matter where you are.... Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is a free extension of Microsoft Office which lets you upload your Office documents

I was speaking at the 2007 West Midlands ICT Conference a couple of weeks back about Microsoft's Software + Services Strategy. The talk focused mainly on what S+S is, where Microsoft is going with it and provided some reality with a few demos. Microsoft believes in a combination of both offline and online software - there is no right way to use software but having the flexibility of computing on your PC and on the Internet (The Cloud) is a good thing. Our online services will look to complement and

Who'd have thought it? Great post from Clint on using Access 2007 with Microsoft Office Live. It's a great example of using a traditional Desktop client with a hosted solution. If you're a current Access developer or supply solutions to small businesses then it's worth a read. More information can be found on Clints Post.