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Fact Sheet — Windows Live Windows Live Fact Sheet | January 2009 With the latest free services from Windows Live, Microsoft Corp. has built a solution helping consumers around the world connect and share — all in one easy spot. Windows Live makes it easy to keep your life in sync with a range of services and applications that are designed to work together, across the PC, the phone and the Web, with the flexibility to let individuals decide how, when and where to best use the services in their online lives. Over the coming weeks, the next generation of Windows Live will become available at http://www.windowslive.com/explore, bringing enhanced tools to make online activities easier, more integrated and more intuitive. More than 460 million customers around the world rely on Windows Live for e-mail, messaging, and sharing photos and files they create within their networks of friends, family members, business associates and more. The new Windows Live experience also is enhanced with feeds from third-party sites that help you stay up to date on what’s new with friends and family, and see information from other online services such as Flickr, Pandora, Photobucket, Twitter, WordPress and Yelp — all in one place. In the coming months, Facebook will join the 58 sites that Microsoft has partnered with previously. This document provides an overview of some significant enhancements to the Windows Live Web services and applications for the PC, now called Windows Live Essentials, as well as Windows Live for Mobile. The new Windows Live includes the following Web services:  Windows Live Calendar. With the completely revamped Windows Live Calendar, it’s easier to manage and share multiple calendars (you can even subscribe to third-party calendars supporting the open iCalendar standard), share to-do lists with family and friends, track tasks, create automatically generated birthday and holiday calendars, sync with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Mail, and stay organized. Windows Live Events. Create and send online event invitations and host event-related interactions — even share photos after the event takes place. Windows Live Events offers ready-made templates for a variety of common events, and integrates with multiple online calendars and the new “What’s New” feed in Windows Live Messenger. New! Windows Live Groups. This new service allows teams, clubs and friends to more easily collaborate online and engage in discussions, create a shared calendar, share photos and files they create, or simply chat online.   Page 1 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live  New! Windows Live FrameIt. Windows Live FrameIt allows you to dynamically deliver photos and other content such as news, traffic and weather information directly to digital picture frames that are wirelessly enabled. Set up personalized albums that contain pictures and content from any compatible photo-sharing site to be delivered to any compatible wireless picture frame and have that content dynamically updated when new images are uploaded. Windows Live Hotmail. For the newest version of Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft focused on making Hotmail simpler, faster and more intuitive than previous versions via a sleek new interface that brings the best of Hotmail with faster performance. Other new features and enhancements that will be made available to Hotmail customers over the coming months include the following: Integration of the “What’s New” feed. After you send an e-mail to a friend, Windows Live displays a page confirming the e-mail has been sent. If the friend is part of your Windows Live network, you also will see a concise update of the friend’s online activity, on both Windows Live and third-party services. Better spam protection. Spam in the Hotmail inbox has been reduced by 80 percent compared with August 2006. POP access. You can access the previously downloaded content in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox while offline using Windows Live Mail or Microsoft Office Outlook with Post Office Protocol (POP) access. POP aggregation. This feature offers one place for your e-mail. With POP access in Windows Live Hotmail, any non-Hotmail e-mail account that is POP-enabled (such as one from Yahoo! Mail Plus, Gmail or AOL) can be imported into Hotmail for convenient, one-stop access. There are options to see all e-mail in one inbox or have each account filtered into a separate folder that users specify and label. Quick Add. Quick Add is a convenient tool for quickly finding and embedding Web images, restaurant reviews, maps, directions, movie times and more into e-mail messages — without ever having to leave the compose e-mail page. Instant messaging in Windows Live Hotmail. The Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service can be used to send and receive instant messages from the Hotmail inbox.  - - - -  New! Windows Live Photos. Create Web slide shows and share photos through Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Groups, Windows Live Events, Windows Live FrameIt and Windows Live Spaces. You can even see all your photos from Windows Live Photos on many Web-enabled cell phones. Windows Live Photos includes great tools and features, such as these: People tagging. You can identify and tag people in your photos, and see other photos that they are tagged in. Page 2 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live - Commenting. You can add comments to photos and see comments friends make. “What’s New” feed. You can monitor the photos that people in your network post on Windows Live. Shared albums. You can create albums on Windows Live Groups and give friends permission to add and tag photos and collaborate to create a shared album that combines the best photos from all group members.  Windows Live SkyDrive. Enjoy increased ease and storage capacity from Windows Live SkyDrive, now offering 25 GB of online storage and tighter integration with other Windows Live services. Upload photos, home movies and other files you create, and access them online from virtually any device connected to the Internet. New! Windows Live Profile. Quickly and easily broadcast information about yourself from Windows Live and ultimately 58 partner sites to your Windows Live network. You decide what information you want to share with your friends, family and Windows Live network. Anything that you choose to share on Windows Live or on select third-party services is automatically reflected on your profile as well as throughout most other services in Windows Live. You are in control, whether you broadcast your activities to the world, share only with designated friends and family, or share with no one at all. The Profile page is also the place to invite your existing friends and contacts from your favorite third-party services to Windows Live so that they can stay in sync with your latest updates. You also can choose to publish your activity from 58 third-party sites to your Windows Live feed, to allow your network to see updates from your online activities in a single place. New! Windows Live People. The Windows Live People page is for the storage and management of your Windows Live contacts. It’s a central address book that contains your contacts from Windows Live Hotmail as well as all the people in your Windows Live network (Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Messenger contacts). With Windows Live People, you can invite your contacts from third-party services, organize contacts into categories and assign permissions that put you in control of what your contacts can see. The People page is accessible everywhere in Windows Live through the header, so you can add, invite, follow or connect with your contacts wherever you are in Windows Live. You also can chat with your IM contacts directly from the page with Windows Live Messenger for the Web. Windows Live Spaces. With 175 million customers, Windows Live Spaces is a central part of the Web experience on Windows Live, designed to be the place where you communicate and share things important to you with your Windows Live network and beyond. With the newest version, Microsoft has focused on improving the experience by making the fonts easier to read and generally improving the user interface. Windows Live Spaces is your personal canvas where you can blog and share photos, create custom lists of information, and add fun gadgets from around the Internet.    Page 3 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live  Windows Live Sync. Formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, the new Windows Live Sync enables you to keep your files and folders synchronized across PCs and Macs. The new features include Windows Live ID integration for a unified sign-on experience and functional enhancements such as Recycle Bin integration for easy file recovery and Unicode support for working with files from a broad range of formats. Windows Live Essentials. Communication and sharing services are fundamental to your Windows experience. Windows Live Essentials gives you a suite of applications for instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos and more. These applications will be regularly updated to provide innovative functionality and to work easily with Windows Live and other popular Web-based services. As a result, you’ll benefit from rapid delivery of new features and services. Windows Live Essentials includes the following free Windows Live applications, available for download from http://windowslive.com/explore:  Windows Live Mail. When you are offline, use Windows Live Mail to access previously saved content in Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Contacts. Windows Live Messenger. Windows Live Messenger is one of the favorite ways that Microsoft customers stay in touch with their contacts. With the latest version of Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft has introduced several new, socially oriented features and an entirely new look and feel: Personalization. Personalize nearly everything: Add a profile picture or video, display a personal scene in the chat window, update the status message with your news, add a favorite link or add what song you’re listening to. Integration of the “What’s New” feed. With the “What’s New” feed in Messenger, you can stay in touch with the latest updates from your circle of friends at a glance, without the need to log in across multiple destinations. Photo sharing. Photo sharing lets you share and comment on pictures while you’re chatting. Show and view pictures directly in the chat window and still have ample space to chat. To start photo sharing, simply drag and drop pictures into the conversation window. Favorites. Favorites are your most important contacts. Think of Favorites as speed dial for your Messenger contacts. Groups. Create groups on the fly, and chat simultaneously with up to 20 members at the same time. A group created in Windows Live Messenger also will be created as a Windows Live Group (see above) with all related features such as shared calendars, photos and posts.  - - -  New! Windows Live Movie Maker beta. Movie Maker has now been added to Windows Live to bring that same simplicity to videos. With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can easily turn photos and video memories into great- Page 4 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live looking movies to share with family and friends on the Internet, CDs, DVDs, your TV, a cell phone or a portable video device, using most popular camera types and file formats on the market today.  Windows Live Photo Gallery. Easily find, fix and share photos with the Windows Live Photo Gallery. Face detection. Windows Live Photo Gallery can recognize the people in your photos so that tagging and finding photos of the people you care about becomes easy. Slide shows. Slide shows are easy to make, with built-in special effects such as fading and transitions. Easy photo sharing. Easily share photos via Windows Live Messenger or publish to Windows Live Photos, Windows Live Events or Windows Live Spaces, where friends can comment on photos. Publish to third-party sites with third-party plug-ins. Edit photos. Remove red-eye, straighten shots, auto-fix images, crop pictures and even create panoramic photos. Easy offline printing. Print photos at one of 71,000 retail locations worldwide, or have them delivered to your doorstep. -  Windows Live Toolbar. Get an at-a-glance summary and quick, easy access to the people, information and services you care about. With easy access to a variety of Windows Live services — Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Calendar and Windows Live Photos — you can easily find and share information on the Web. Windows Live Writer. Edit photos, insert videos directly from your PC and add beautiful photo slide shows directly in your blog entries with Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer works with Windows Live Spaces, as well as with third-party services such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and many other popular blogging sites. Windows Live Family Safety.2 Parents can help keep children safe by managing which Web sites kids can visit and which contacts they can communicate with when they are using Windows Live Spaces, Hotmail and Messenger. Family Safety even generates reports for parents so that they can monitor their children’s activity. Best of all, it lets parents manage this from anywhere they are online — on their PC or from the Web.   Windows Live for Mobile3 brings the Windows Live experience optimized for mobile devices. You can access Windows Live services via client applications, the mobile Web or short message service (SMS). Go to http://mobile.live.com from your mobile phone’s Web browser to get started on the mobile Web. Windows Live for Mobile includes the following services:  Windows Live Hotmail for mobile. Receive Web- and client-based mail on your mobile phone and new mail alerts via SMS. The new version of Windows Live Hotmail for mobile is focused on making Windows Live Hotmail on the Page 5 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live mobile Web faster and more efficient to use than previous versions. Some of the new features, scheduled for release in the first half of 2009, are these:   Mail search. Search within your e-mail. Rich e-mail. Enjoy HTML rendering of e-mail, including embedded images and links. Windows Live Messenger for mobile. Enjoy Web-, client- and SMS-based instant messaging from your mobile device. New! Windows Live Photos for mobile. Experience Web-based photo viewing, uploading and sharing, and client-based photo uploading. Album and photo viewing. View your photos and those of your friends using your mobile phone’s Web browser. Browse albums, view photo thumbnails, see photo details and add comments. Photo upload. Publish and share your photos from your Web-enabled camera phone. “What’s New” Photos feed. See if friends have shared new albums or if there are new comments on photos.  New! Windows Live Profile for mobile. Experience Web-based access to view and update your information and connect with others. View profile. View your profile information and that of other people. Manage friend invitations. Invite friends to join your network and accept or decline friends’ requests to connect with you. “What’s New” feed. See what’s new for the person whose profile you are looking at. Invite a friend. Use SMS to invite a friend to join your network (first half of 2009) Update personal message. Update your personal message via SMS (first half of 2009).  New! Windows Live People for mobile. Access integrated contacts in a mobile phone address book for supported devices, a Web-based hub for contacts and SMS-based search for contact information. Contact search. Search for contacts in your contact list using your phone’s Web browser. Search contact information. Use SMS to connect with a Windows Live SMS short code to look up a contact’s information (first half of 2009).   Windows Live Spaces for mobile. Take advantage of Web-based access to your personal Web page and blogging. New! Windows Live Calendar for mobile. Experience SMS-based access to today’s and tomorrow’s appointments. Page 6 of 7 Fact Sheet — Windows Live - Get calendar. Use SMS to send a message with “today” or “tomorrow” to a Windows Live SMS short code and get your calendar for the day (first half of 2009). 1 2 Microsoft-commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. study, October 2007 Family Safety software must be installed on each computer that children use. If the software is not installed, the safety settings cannot be enforced. 3 Standard text and data mobile rates apply. 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