November 2006 Windows Live™ for mobile provides search and communications capabilities that help people access their world of relationships, information and interests from their mobile devices. Windows Live for mobile provides people with an exceptional user experience and choice through communications and search capabilities. Based on Windows Live for mobile’s open APIs, developers and mobile operators gain the ability to differentiate, innovate and bring solutions to market quickly. The integration of Windows Live for mobile onto mobile devices enables on-the-go access to services such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Search. Customers in several markets around the world can try the latest Windows Live for mobile products by signing up at http://ideas.live.com or by going to http://mobile.live.com on their mobile browser. With Windows Live for mobile, Microsoft Corp. is extending the Windows Live experience to mobile devices in a way that provides consumers with a familiar and convenient way to stay in touch with the people and information they care about the most. Microsoft innovations in rich client applications will provide an integrated, smart consumer experience and, coupled with strategic alliances with the mobile industry, will bring popular Windows Live communications services such as Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger to mobile devices. The most advanced phone platforms can deliver the most advanced services. Windows Mobile®-powered devices, with their advanced software, processing power and memory, make ideal platforms for the delivery of Windows Live services. Customers using Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones with access to Windows Live services can enjoy the following: | • | The ability to stay in touch with important personal and business information — including mobile access to Microsoft® Office Outlook® e-mail, contacts, calendar and other critical data — while on the go helps increase efficiency, productivity and profitability in the mobile work force. | | • | A familiar software experience facilitates more effective and efficient collaboration and information-sharing while minimizing the time required for mobile users to get familiar with their devices. | | • | The opportunity to personalize the phone and have fun. With Windows Mobile, users can play digital media and mobile games, personalize their phone’s color scheme and home screen, and assign customized, polyphonic ring tones. Windows Mobile software provides users with a unique and thoroughly entertaining mobile phone experience. |
In addition, Microsoft continues to invest in Windows Live as a platform and is enabling development opportunities for the non-Windows Mobile market as well with open APIs and a robust developer program. Key Benefits of Windows Live for Mobile With Windows Live for mobile, consumers can access the people and information that matter most to them in a familiar way. | • | Windows Live Search for mobile. This integrated user experience offered via Windows Live Search for mobile allows consumers to search the Web and search for local points of interest, providing easy access to precise answers from virtually any location on mobile devices. Windows Live Search for mobile is available in 16 markets today including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Italy, France and Japan. Using their browser on the mobile phone, customers can go to http://live.com/mobile and use the Windows Live Search service to execute their search. Operators can also use Windows Live for mobile technologies to offer a customized search of their portal content for customers. | | • | Windows Live Mail for mobile. Windows Live Mail for mobile enables consumers to manage their Windows Live Mail from their mobile device. Windows Live Mail is Microsoft’s new Web mail service built from the ground up to be fast, safe and simple to use. MSN® Hotmail® customers are able to use both the Web and mobile versions with their existing Hotmail ID. Customers can sign up to join the Windows Live beta services at http://ideas.live.com or go to their mobile phones to start using the mobile beta services. | | • | Windows Live Messenger for mobile. Windows Live for mobile allows consumers to interact with their Windows Live Messenger contacts. It has the core functionality and familiar look of their PCs and is optimized for the phone interface. | | • | Windows Live Spaces for mobile. With Windows Live Spaces for mobile, customers can update their space, send entries to their blog or upload photos they’ve taken with their camera-enabled mobile phone to their space from their mobile devices. |
Facts About Windows Live for Mobile The Internet’s most popular online destination, the Microsoft Windows Live network of Internet services attracts more than 440 million unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions in 42 markets and 21 languages, Windows Live is a leader in delivering Web services to consumers and ad sales to businesses worldwide. Windows Live for mobile services are available today via more than 85 mobile operators in more than 32 countries. MSN and Windows Live services are used by millions of people online, and exchanging instant messages and e-mail with others is now second nature to them. Making it possible for these consumers to seamlessly continue communicating when away from a PC is the next logical step in the evolution of the Internet. Microsoft, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, Outlook, MSN and Hotmail are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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