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On November fifteen, when Microsoft would make offered the last edition of its three Workplace Live support offerings, there might be a couple of surprises. Workplace Live could be the family of Microsoft's support add-ons — targeted at small businesses — designed to supplement Microsoft Workplace. The November release, known inside Microsoft as Office Live 1.5,Office Professional Plus 2010, will likely be the first delivery of what Microsoft intends to make an annually updated set of services. (In between the major code drops, Microsoft is planning to do point releases, officials said.) Come November,Microsoft Office Standard 2010, there will not be,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, as originally expected, an Workplace Live Collaboration offering. Microsoft has decided to keep testing this SKU and not yet release the ultimate bits to the public, said Marja Koopmans, director of channel and business strategy for Workplace Reside. She attributed the decision to beta-tester and partner feedback, and said to expect the ultimate Live Collaboration offering to be aimed at slightly larger customers. When Microsoft first outlined publicly its Workplace Live plans, company officials said there would be 3 Workplace Reside SKUs: Basics, Collaboration and Essentials. Collaboration was intended to get a $29.95 per month subscription offering, based on SharePoint that would allow users to build password-protected "Shared Sites" for collaborating among internal employees and external partners. In place of the Live Collaboration SKU is an "Office Live Premium" offering — which supplants the Essentials offering as the new high-end Workplace Reside SKU. Microsoft also has upped the amount of storage space it is providing Office Reside customers with the final release. When the company first began beta testing Workplace Live in April, Microsoft committed to providing Basics users with 30 MB of Web site storage; Collaboration users with none (not applicable); and Essentials users with 50 MB. The last storage allocations, as of November, might be 500 MB for Basics users; 1 GB for Essentials users; and 2 GB for Premium users. Microsoft also has increased the allocated workspace storage limits. For Essentials, the former 50 MB limit is now 500 MB. And Premium customers will get up to 1 GB of shared-workspace storage. Originally, Basics users were set to be allowed five free e-mail accounts; Collaboration users none (not applicable); and Essentials users, 50 accounts. The ultimate counts: Basics users get 25 free accounts; Essentials users get 50; and Premium get 50. Since it outlined its original goals for Workplace Live, Microsoft also has added a few new features, including a synchronization capability, linking Office Reside with Business Contact Manager in Outlook; integration with Office Accounting Express 2007, the free, entry-level small-business accounting product Microsoft launched yesterday; and integration with the Microsoft adManager keyword-purchasing service that is currently in beta test. Last pricing is largely consistent with what Microsoft originally promised,Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, with Office Live Basics remaining free (and ad-supported); Workplace Live Essentials might be $19.95 per month — instead of the $29.95 originally expected. The new Office Live Premium SKU also will cost $39.95 per month. (The postponed Reside Collaboration SKU was also set originally to get priced at $29.95 per month.) Microsoft officials said more than 160,Office 2007 Activation Key,000 individuals have been beta testing Workplace Reside in the U.S.. On November fifteen, when the services go gold here, Microsoft will commence betas of Workplace Live in France, Germany, Japan and the U.K. No update from Koopmans on when or if Microsoft will turn Microsoft Works into another member of the Office Reside family. Stay tuned on that one.