On Nov. 6. Microsoft released in New York and Los Angeles, the new generation of Windows Live services available in 36 languages and 59 countries across the globe.Brian Hall, general manager of Microsoft's Windows Live business group pointed out the three most important aspects that Windows Live aims at :the user oriented policy, making Microsoft a truly integrated and wide experience and delivering through Windows the best Web has to offer.
Part of this strategy and approach, this release provides reinforcement of already popular services (Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger and Spaces ) and at the same time brings new services for sharing digital photos, planning and sharing events, publishing to the Web and further communication.
The Windows Live experience will be extended insofar as to become very generous with the options – photographs can be shared now from Windows Live Photo Gallery on Flickr and blogs can be managed within any blog service which supports RSD (Really Simple Discovery). Hall also referred to other options "You can have your AOL Mail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail—if you have POP access—all coming in to one client. We are also releasing support for 64-bit Windows this week."
According to Hall, Microsoft’s competitiveness stays high by increasing the number of active Windows Live identities by more than 19 percent year over year..
Analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group pointed out the main feature upon which Microsoft lies its confidence and strategy –the membership , the community at large, which would basically mean a sort of ‘sociability’ of the services. Microsoft's partnership with Facebook is the proof of the future orientation of Microsoft.
This orientation relies much on the results of a recent Harris Interactive study that indicates 61 percent of online consumers as being annoyed with vesting multiple Web sites to access the online information they need. This opens Microsoft to an all-in-one service kind of approach in the future.
