Driveway's Direct to Web File Storage Option to be Available On Microsoft's Office Update Web Site; Office 2000 Users Can Now Save Office Documents Directly to Driveway.com.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999-- Microsoft Corp. has selected Driveway to be the first personal online file storage service to be available on Office Update (http://officeupdate.microsoft.com). Effective immediately, users will be able to save documents directly to their Driveway account from within Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. or PowerPoint. "Driveway is an excellent addition to Office Update, the companion Web site to Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. . We're happy to provide Office customers with the ability to save Office files directly to their Driveway account," said Taylor Collyer, business development manager, Microsoft. "This addition provides our customers with another choice for easily accessing their Office files from anywhere." The deal follows recent announcements by Driveway of alliances with McAfee.com, a leading PC application service offering and USA.net, an e-mail provider. Microsoft users can sign up for Driveway at the Microsoft Office Update Microsoft Office Update is a free online service from Microsoft that allow users to detect and install updates for Microsoft Office products. It has been incorporated into Microsoft Update, the upgrade to Windows Update. Web site, which attracts millions of unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month. The site provides Office users the latest Office news, product add-ins, upgrades and solutions. Driveway.com will be accessible throughout the Office Update pages, select co-branded pages and showcased on Office Update's "eServices" page. "Driveway allows Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f to bridge the gap between the desktop and the Web," said Mike Zukerman, vice president, business development, Driveway. "Driveway and Microsoft share a similar vision and we're working together to bring this great new experience to users." The driveway.com HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. browser-based service gives members up to 100 megabytes of secure, personal space on the Internet for file management. Additional megabytes can be added. About Driveway San Francisco-based Driveway is the leader in personal Internet file storage and management. Through driveway.com, the company offers more than 1.5 million members a reliable way to access, store and share digital information from any Web-enabled computer. Formerly known as Atrieva Corporation, the company pioneered Internet-based file storage and has established relationships with more than 40 strategic partners. Driveway investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners, Battery Venture Partners and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Life, as well as a number of private investors. For additional information, visit Driveway at www.driveway.com. Driveway is a registered trademark of Driveway. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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