$100,000 Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes Winner

It has been selected and the $100,000 was awarded to David Austin, graduate student, winning the grand prize for Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes.

Here’s the Press Release from Microsoft PressPass:

REDMOND, Wash. — June 23, 2008 — The Microsoft Office Live Workspace team presented David Austin with his $100,000 grand prize today, as part of the Office Live Workspace sweepstakes that kicked off when the service launched on March 3, 2008. Participants entered for a chance to win by signing up for their own Workspace, and earned up to two bonus entries for uploading their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they shared a document or Workspace with others. The winner could choose to use the grand prize to fund a favorite charity, an education or build a business.

Austin, a Seattle-based graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Washington (UW), was introduced to Office Live Workspace during one of his courses at UW, where he was studying various collaborative solutions such as Office Live Workspace.

The access to documents from virtually anywhere that Office Live Workspace provided was an attractive feature for Austin.

“I was drawn to the portability and access to my documents, even when I didn’t have my laptop with me, so I signed up for it as soon as I heard about it,” Austin said. “I currently use Office Live Workspace to keep my work schedule and school papers — both Word and Excel files — in one safe place. I plan to use this service even more in my grad program next year as I work on projects that will require me to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents with others.”