New Albany from Microsoft to beat Google Hosted

Microsoft is beta testing a hosted version of Office, Office Live Workspace, One Care and Live Suite, The idea here is that this suite will be very inexpensive and maybe kind of even free as in beer, it can be an ad-supported or subscription based those details are yet to be know but this confirms that Microsoft is investing heavily to beat Google hosted applications, Microsoft's Office does a great job but lets see how they fair to get rolling to beat Google,

They need to be fast because google has already got a kickstart and they are still playing catchup.