14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is right on track to overhaul Live.com. At this point in time, the home page for Live.com is based on a concept similar to the default Google page. It features the Windows Live logo, allows the user to sign in, provides immediate access to Live Search, to options, but also offers the users the methods to personalize the page in accordance with their preferences. Apparently, this is a model that has not been paying off for the Redmond company. Now Microsoft seems set on the course to redesign Windows Live Home.
Windows Live was introduced back on November 1, 2005. Microsoft presented a collection of personal Internet services and software designed to build on the Windows platform. Since two year ago, the Redmond company has been continually adding to the set of web-based Live software and service suite, and evolving the Live umbrella brand with such titles as Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Folders.
Towards the end of June, Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management revealed an insight into Microsoft's plans to deliver the next generation of Windows Live services in accordance with the company's general strategy involving Software plus Services. In Microsoft's perspective, Windows Live will be the "in the cloud" extension to the Widows client operating system.
"In the coming months, customers can expect us to deliver on this vision with enhancements to all the Windows Live services. We'll also make some new products available that align with our "software plus services" strategy. Ultimately, we want to keep refining, adding and connecting products within our Windows Live portfolio to, as I mentioned earlier, help consumers more easily and safely communicate and share with the people they care about," Jones stated in June. "In time, we want to people to be able to connect to the content they want regardless of what device they're on - be it a PC at home or work, or a phone - or what social network they're a part of. We're taking proactive steps to make this a reality."
It appears that the Windows Live Home redesign announced by Tetuya Onoda, Windows Live Director, is also an integer part of Microsoft's efforts to evolve the Live brand. According to LiveSide, Onoda described a Windows Live Home designed to act as a centralized portal for the main Live services and software offerings.