Microsoft Office Is Right at Home: Q&A: Microsoft Office Live Director of Marketing Michael Schultz explains how consumers can use Office to accomplish more every day.

A timely snapshot; see the full press release, and check out Office Live Workspace for an example of software + services in action  

PressPass: CES is traditionally more about devices than software. What is your team demonstrating this week?

Schultz: We want to show our customers that there are countless ways Office 2007 and Office Live Workspace can help them get more done. People are busy. In a 24-hour period, parents are helping kids with school projects; homeowners are balancing household budgets; consumers are managing credit card bills. Some people work full-time, and run a home-based business, and are active in their kids’ PTA — and they still make enough time to exercise. Sandra Hofferth, professor with the Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, says that even children have less free time than they did 20 years ago — down from 40 percent to 30 percent of their week.*

In that context, Office provides a lot of ways to accomplish a variety of everyday tasks more quickly. So really what we’re doing at CES this week is showing people how Microsoft Office is more than Word documents or Excel spreadsheets. It can help people collaborate, share, design, write, draw, calculate, present and organize. When you add up all those little things that Office does really well, the end result is simple — more time.

Microsoft Office Is Right at Home: Q&A: Microsoft Office Live Director of Marketing Michael Schultz explains how consumers can use Office to accomplish more every day.