As we reported last month, Microsoft Office is set to move to the Web in 2010, offering users browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. However, it hasn’t been exactly clear where that software might live in the vast world of Microsoft websites.
Currently, office.microsoft.com is used to promote the company’s desktop Office software, while officelive.com is where Office Live (Microsoft’s desktop-to-web sync tool) users go to sign-in and access their documents online. Now, however, it looks like Microsoft has landed a killer domain name for their full online office suite: Office.com.
According to the blog istartedsomething.com, the domain name for Office.com was transferred to Microsoft on August 4th – just two days ago – from a European company called ContactOffice group. Sure enough, WHOIS records now indicate the domain name belongs to Microsoft, and the current Office.com site alerts ContactOffice customers that the company is in the process of moving to ContactOffice.com.