Video Effects allows you to personalise video calls with fun visual elements. 3D Accessories add effects that move with their faces, allowing them to add sunglasses or a cricket cap and move from side to side while retaining the effect. With Facial Exaggerations, people can shrink their nose or enlarge their eyes

Video Messages, a Microsoft service to help people keep in touch. When friends and family are not around for a live video chat or perhaps are in a distant time zone, Video Messages is a great solution. You can record and send videos through an exclusive Windows Vista gadget and any Windows Live user can get in on the fun via an online portal http://videomessages.live.com.

Windows Live Call Button Located on top of the LifeCam, the Windows Live Call Button allows you to open their Contact Picker (a tool showing which contacts are currently online) with one touch, so they can quickly initiate video calls to friends and family

Pricing and Availability
The LifeCam VX-2000 will be available in June 2009 for the recommended retail price of $59.95.3 The LifeCam VX-2000 is backed by a worldwide three-year limited hardware warranty from Microsoft. More information about this and other Microsoft Hardware products can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/hardware.

About Microsoft Hardware
For 25 years, the Hardware Group has employed innovative engineering, cutting-edge industrial design and extensive usability testing to create products of exceptional quality and durability that enhance the software experience and strengthen the connection between consumers and their PC. Microsoft Hardware leads the industry in ergonomic engineering, industrial design and hardware/software compatibility, offering consumers an easier, more convenient and more enjoyable computing experience. Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, which launched in 1999, earned a place on PCWorld.com’s December 2005 list of “The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years” as the first mainstream optical mouse that “brought gunk-free pointing devices” to a broad consumer base. More information about the Hardware Group is available at http://www.microsoft.com/hardware.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Markets with Windows Live Messenger are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (English and French), Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, the U.K., Uruguay, the U.S. and Venezuela.

These features are available only through Windows Live Messenger.

Recommended retail prices. At participating retailers. The price a customer pays will be determined by their retailer

For further information, please contact:
Jacquie Potter
Pulse Communications
02 8281 3893
Email: jacquie@pulsecom.com.au

Alice Coulthard
Pulse Communications
02 8281 3818
Email: alice@pulsecom.com.au

Visit the Microsoft Hardware Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/hardware/

For product images visit http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/gallery.mspx

For a look at Microsoft Hardware’s past 25 years of innovation visit http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/innovation/history.mspx.