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Google Docs vs. Microsoft Live Workspace

I started playing around with Microsoft Live Workspace yesterday. It has the typical clunky feel of a Microsoft offering, but has promise. A detailed review comparing Google Docs and Microsoft Live Workspace is available here. In a recent presentation, I was talking about using RSS to manage content flow...and setting up Google Reader. I received blank stares. So I asked, "who has Outlook 2007". Many hands go up. Well, there is the audience that will find value in getting RSS feeds directly into Microsoft Outlook. With growing sense of information weariness that I encounter with faculty, any tool that has additional functionality, but doesn't require developing new habits (such as checking Google Reader), is immediately more desirable.