Microsoft, for what I would assume was a modest amount, now owns the domain name Office.com. Although there has been no announcement from Microsoft of what they plan to use the domain for it would seem a logical guess that it will be used for the upcoming web-based versions of the Office suite.
Office.com was owned by ContactOffice which according to a message on Office.com currently, “As you know from the recent email we sent you, we will be transitioning the operation of your Virtual Office account to ContactOffice.com during the next 30 days. As part of this transition, on Monday, June 29, 2009, we changed email addresses in the office.com domain to ones in the contactoffice.com domain.”
Microsoft did show a technical preview of Office 2010 last month and there is also word that the new version of Office will be able to run within a web-browser. It will be intersting to see how this progresses and what Microsoft plans to use the domain for.
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