Live.com. The Windows Live home page, Live.com, is a software-powered service that enables consumers to build a fully personalized home page that automatically delivers the information they want, across the Internet , so they can stay on top of the news, blogs, RSS feeds and other information they really care about on the Internet. Live.com will become the place to seamlessly access other Windows Live services and will serve as a great place to experience Windows Live Search. Live.com will also be a platform for third-party developers to build and deliver customized services, called “gadgets,” to customers.

Windows Live Search. Windows Live Search helps people simply find what they need from across the Internet. Introducing an innovative new design with rich viewing and organizational tools, extensive search categories such as image and local search, and custom services that help users customize search results by preference, Windows Live Search is a significant advancement in Microsoft’s search strategy. Empowering people to fully customize their Windows Live Search service, users will be able to install pre-defined macro searches to their search scopes bar. Macro search is a powerful tool that enables people to save and share specific queries, and in the coming months it will be designed to create completely custom macros to fine-tune and structure very precise search queries.

Windows Live Local. Windows Live Local is powered by Microsoft’s Virtual Earth™ platform, delivering a core set of tools that combine maps and directions, immersive satellite imagery, and local search functionality. The product road map includes a community approach, allowing users to easily find their own location-specific information, assemble it according to their preference, and share it with others of similar interests. Windows Live Local offers a standard set of world-class features that are reliable and reflect Microsoft’s continued investment in the mapping arena.

Windows Live Book Search. With Windows Live Book Search, Microsoft is digitizing and indexing information from the world’s printed content. Our goal is to better answer consumers’ questions with trusted content from the best sources, including content from books, academic materials, periodicals and other print resources.

Windows Live Toolbar. Using the Windows Live user interface, the Toolbar offers the ability to search from any Web page using Windows Live Search, while helping people easily organize and share the information they find online.

Windows Live for Mobile. Windows Live for Mobile provides people with an enhanced user experience and choice through communications and search capabilities. Developers and mobile operators gain the ability to differentiate, innovate and bring solutions to market quickly based on Windows Live for Mobile’s open APIs. Windows Live for Mobile’s search and communications capabilities will help people access their world of relationships, information and interests from their mobile devices. (This service is not accessible through http://ideas.live.com.)

Windows Live Product Search. Windows Live Product Search is a vertical search engine built on Windows Live technology that helps people research and find both popular and rare products on the Web. Windows Live Product Search puts customers in control of their product search and the search interface to help guide them toward finding the products they need most. Windows Live Product Search provides standard list search results and is optimized for the product research and buying experience.

Windows Live Academic Search. Windows Live Academic Search is a vertical search engine that allows customers to search through academic information and helps them find precisely what they are looking for in less time by giving them fast access to information and more control over their search experience. Key innovations will give customers an advantage in their research efforts — especially in the areas of user interface and information sorting.

Windows Live QnA. Windows Live QnA is an offering that will be available in beta form to consumers in the coming months, and tap into the power of community to help answer people’s questions on a variety of subject areas and topics. Windows Live QnA will answer questions by bringing human knowledge that isn’t readily accessible today and will make it searchable. Windows Live QnA will be deeply integrated with Windows Live Search, providing a rich, integrated, vertical searching service that enables customers to search and find answers on the Web or from experts on a given topic as part of a vertical search experience.

Windows Live Favorites. Windows Live Favorites is a service that enables individuals to access their favorites from any PC that’s online, even while they are away from their main computer. The beta service is available at http://favorites.live.com.

Windows Live Shopping. Windows Live Shopping is an innovative shopping site built for the Windows Live audience in the U.S. and is currently in beta form at http://shopping.live.com. Windows Live Shopping utilizes Windows Live technologies and is designed to give customers added customization to enable them to create their own online shopping experience so they can better discover, compare and decide what they would like to buy online. The Windows Live Shopping beta will complement MSN Shopping, found at http://shopping.msn.com.

Windows Live Expo beta. Windows Live Expo beta, available to all U.S. customers at http://expo.live.com, is an online classifieds Internet site, which includes social networking and community features through a trustworthy, convenient and free online service. All messages, inquiries and listings are sent directly to and from the customer’s anonymous Windows Live Expo message inbox. Windows Live Expo also helps bring a level of trust to the online trading experience by allowing customers to decide what group they would like to do business with — just those on their MSN Messenger Contact List, those in the e-mail groups they belong to, or the entire Windows Live Expo community.

Windows Live Messenger. Windows Live Messenger, which launched June 20, 2006, is a world-leading free and easy-to-use consumer instant messaging (IM) service that allows people to connect and share with others in real time, expressing themselves in rich, convenient and fun ways. Available in 26 languages and used in more than 60 countries by more than 240 million active accounts each month, Windows Live Messenger allows customers to not only enjoy instant messaging, but also to initiate rich audio and video conversations, make PC to phone calls, and easily exchange pictures and personal files with others. With Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft is investing in new ways to help customers see, talk and share with each other.

Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail Beta, Microsoft’s new free next-generation Web mail service, is the successor to MSN^® Hotmail^®. Many customers will be upgraded in the coming year, but can continue to use their Hotmail e-mail address if they choose.

Windows Live Mail Desktop. Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta is a free, ad-funded mail client that adds features to Windows Live Mail, made possible by bringing together client software with services including features such as access to mail when offline, multiple e-mail account aggregation and RSS feed aggregation. Windows Live Mail Desktop is currently in managed beta. People can sign up to be notified about the beta when it opens to the public at http://ideas.live.com.

Windows Live Custom Domains. Windows Live Custom Domains gives customers their own Web address and a practically unlimited amount of personalized e-mail addresses using Windows Live Mail or MSN Hotmail to give to anyone they want. With Windows Live Custom Domains, customers can also register a domain name they already own and create Windows Live IDs in that domain to use Microsoft’s mail service and other Windows Live services. Windows Live Custom Domains include an unlimited number of accounts within each domain, 2GB inboxes for accounts with Windows Live Mail beta, the ability for customers to check e-mail from almost any Web-enabled PC, junk e-mail filter protection using Microsoft SmartScreen^® technology and virus scanning of e-mail, as well as a seamless experience with Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces.

Windows Live Spaces and social networking. Microsoft will continue to invest in services that help people express themselves and find, connect and nurture deeper relationships with others around the world. MSN Spaces will transition into Windows Live Spaces in the coming months as Microsoft adds new features to the service, including social networking designed to bring people closer to their friends. Social networking in Windows Live services will be centered on a customer’s unified contact list, enabling the user to find and connect with people who have similar interests but may be new to his or her social circle. Customers will be able to choose and control who has access to discover and connect with them.

Windows Live OneCare. Windows Live OneCare™ is a comprehensive, automatic and self-updating PC care service that continually manages vital computer tasks so consumers can have greater peace of mind about protecting and maintaining their PCs and can spend their time on things they enjoy. Windows Live OneCare is available today in the U.S. (English version only) as a direct download from http://onecare.live.com and from retailers nationwide for an estimated retail price of $49.95 per year for up to three PCs.

Windows Live Family Safety Settings. Microsoft has developed a free, Web-based service called Windows Live Family Safety Settings to provide consumers with a variety customizable tools, such as Web content filtering, online activity reporting features and contact list management, to help people better manage their online experience and help better protect their families. Microsoft is also working with child experts worldwide, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), to enable them to provide age-based filtering guidelines through Family Safety Settings that can help parents determine appropriate settings for their children and help promote best practices for online activities. Currently in a limited private beta in the United States, Windows Live Family Safety Settings will be more broadly available starting summer 2006 through a phased feature rollout. To sign up, customers can visit http://ideas.live.com or sign up for the Windows Live Family Safety Settings waiting list by sending e-mail to fssalert@microsoft.com.

Windows Live Safety Center. The Windows Live Safety Center is a free, Web-based, on-demand service that will enable customers to scan their PC for viruses and clean their PC, as well as perform other tasks to help protect their PC and Windows Live services against potential malware threats. Windows Live Safety Center is intended to provide a no-fee security and maintenance service to a broad consumer audience across the Windows Live network. It is an advertising-funded, Web-based, on-demand tool set, allowing consumers to help protect themselves from viruses and improve the performance of their PCs. Windows Live Safety Center is currently in beta form in 42 global markets. More information is available at http://safety.live.com.

Windows Live Integrated Protection. Beyond the Windows Live Safety Center, Windows Live Family Safety Settings and Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft is making many more investments to help protect customers as they use Windows Live services, such as the Microsoft Phishing Filter, currently available as an add-in for the MSN Search Toolbar, and SmartScreen^® spam filtering in e-mail. In addition to technology innovations, Microsoft also engages in ongoing efforts to help protect customers online through user education, and industry and government cooperation.

Microsoft Office Live Basics. This advertising-supported, free-to-customer offer provides small businesses with the basics required for establishing a digital identity, including company domain name, a hosted Web site with 30 MB of storage, five e-mail accounts with their own domain names, a WYSIWYG Web designer for quickly designing a Web site and Web analytics to analyze the resulting traffic.

Microsoft Office Live Essentials. Microsoft Office Live Essentials provides customers with what they need to establish and manage a small business: company domain name, Web site space, 50 e-mail accounts with their own domain names, WYSIWYG Web designer to design a Web site, FrontPage^® support for advanced Web design, advanced Web analytics to analyze the resulting traffic, and a range of hosted small-business applications to automate daily business tasks such as customer management, project management and document management. These hosted services can work on their own or enhance the experience of customers using Microsoft Office system programs, servers and services, such as Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Small Business Edition.

Microsoft Office Live Collaboration. This offering provides a range of hosted, cost-effective business management tools that are affordably managed and maintained by Microsoft. Capabilities include customer management, project management, document management and a private Web site for collaborating among employees as well as externally with customers, suppliers and contractors. Office Live is designed to provide a complete, affordable and easy-to-use solution that can be used alone via the Web or with popular Microsoft Office programs.

Free professional Web site with the company’s own domain name and free e-mail accounts expertly hosted by Microsoft

A private, online work space for organizing and managing customer and business information

A complete set of tools and small-business management applications for managing time, tasks, projects and company data that integrate with existing Microsoft Office programs

The company’s own work space to collaborate with employees, customers, partners, suppliers and contractors

An extensible platform for solutions customized for the business delivered by Microsoft Certified Partners

Multiple levels of service. Xbox Live offers new levels of service to get everyone into the game. Gamers are constantly connected, no matter what they’re doing on the system.

Xbox Live Marketplace. Xbox Live Marketplace is a one-stop digital download center for additional game-related and entertainment content. Gamers can access free and premium trailers and playable game demos; content that extends the game experience such as new levels, characters and weapons; and entertainment-related content including high-definition movie trailers and new music videos

Xbox Live Arcade. Xbox Live Arcade is fully integrated into the Xbox 360 console. Gamers can jump straight into Xbox Live Arcade from the Xbox 360 Dashboard, where they can download new games, access their game collection, check out new releases and experience cool around-the-game features. With Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360, casual gamers will find a wide variety of game genres available for download, including action arcade titles, coin-operated and retro classics, puzzle games, casual sports games, light strategy titles, and card and board games.

Ubiquitous voice chat. Gamers can now chat with friends anytime, while doing anything on their Xbox 360 system, regardless of subscription level.

Gamer profile. On Xbox Live, all members have the ability to create their own gamer profile, which is a summary of their preferences, achievements and online personality. Elements of a gamer profile include a gamer card to look at key statistics of a challenger; gamerscore, a cumulative score of all achievements that enables gamers to quickly compare profiles between other gamers; reputation, a rating provided by the community that indicates how players are perceived by other players; and much more.