March 3rd, 2008

Microsoft is putting all its online small-business eggs in one basket and hoping to entice small businesses with free admission. If a product purports to let anyone with a small business build and run a Web shop, the aspiring e-merchant had better be able to create an attractive and useful site, do so quickly and easily, have access to necessary tools (like multiple e-mail accounts), and be able to call on straightforward but effective business-promotion capabilities. When testing OLSB, I examined how it fared in those critical areas, both on its own and against the only really comparable service—Yahoo! Small Business. The results are pretty impressive.

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