Today, Microsoft has announced the merger of Office Live and Windows Live. Instead of offering the applications as two different programs, consumers will have the ability to access both sets of services from one web location.

Office Live is a collection of services appealing to small businesses and are designed as additions to the Microsoft Office software program. The current products included with Office Live are Office Live Workspace, Office Live Small Business and Office Live Groove. Windows Live is a set of consumer software programs that provide mail, instant messaging, blogging services and more.

In what is sure to not be the last time Google and Microsoft cross swords, here we have a quick comparison of the two’s online services. Who has the upper hand: Google and their only in the clouds (for now) Documents or Microsoft’s no editing in the clouds Word Online. Here is the summation: