While planning to unveil its Windows (Cloud) Strata operating system for the Internet, Microsoft is also increasing the focus on its Live platform. In this context, the Redmond giant has introduced Live Services Jumpstart 2009, a website dedicated to gather audience for a series of events in Amsterdam (Barneveld); Beijing; Berlin; Dallas (Irving); Los Angeles; San Francisco; Seoul; Singapore; Sydney; Warsaw; and Washington in order to explore Microsoft ‘Software + Services’ Services - Live Services.

“Live Services Jumpstart provides in-depth technical training sessions on Microsoft’s cutting edge consumer web platform technologies that help developers / partner organizations build rich web applications, sync and share them across devices and more importantly, build audience for the web applications,” reads a message from Microsoft, with the promise that the events will enable developers to jumpstart the building process of web applications powered by Live Services.

According to the Redmond company, developers will be able to leverage not only the almost half a billion audience that has been built around Windows Live, but also the Microsoft core infrastructure. In the end, Microsoft's purpose is to make websites more “social capable” and this can be done via the Live Services. From Live Search to Windows Live Messenger, to adCenter, website developers will be able to add presence and awareness to their projects, but also analyze traffic, and turn to Microsoft's infrastructure for distributed storage.

“Web 2.0 has already changed the way users think about the web sites they visit, raising expectations for information sharing and collaboration. Microsoft’s Live Platform lets you easily put the social and collaborative capabilities into your website to create rich experiences online, and helps consumers keep those experiences synchronized, online and off, across all their devices. Live platform enables you to add compelling, sticky web capabilities, and dramatically increase audience engagement on your site,” explained Microsoft's Ashish Jaiman, ISV DE.