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EDUCAUSE Live! September 19, 2007 Walter Harp, Group Product Manager Microsoft 1.

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1 EDUCAUSE Live! September 19, 2007 Walter Harp, Group Product Manager Microsoft 1

2 With Windows Live @ edu, schools can provide students – E-mail that is fast, safe, and easy to use – 5 Gb of storage – A familiar interface – SPAM filtering – Virus scanning and clean up – Forwarding (optional) – POP3 – Outlook Connector – More… 2

3 student@sas.upenn.edu student@wharton.upenn.edu Plus, a variety of future services… Windows Live IDs provide students with access to a variety of compelling services, current and future. 3 Mobile access to school e- mail Study break :^) Share & access files anywhere Blog, share photos, create gadgets and RSS feeds Real-time sharing and collaboration Send IMs & SMS, video conversations, emoticons

4 Why do schools outsource student messaging and collaboration? Provide students more Keep pace with innovation without the expense Divert scarce resources to higher value-add activities Strengthen online connection to alumni Why do schools not outsource? Locally hosted services = greater control Perceived risk of taking an important dependency on an outside entity Preference for “better” or “best” messaging and collaboration solutions Common questions & concerns Privacy (e.g. FERPA compliance) ADA / Section 508 Administration of subpoenas & investigations Intent – is there a “catch?” Plan B – what’s my exit strategy? Maintaining a singe credential model (e.g. SSO) Student acceptance 4

5 Windows Live Users Worldwide Hotmail>300 Million Messenger>280 Million Spaces>90 Million US University Student Web-mail Usage as of Aug 2007 Source: comScore, Inc.comScore, Inc. Web-mailUnique Visitors (000) Yahoo!7,213 Hotmail4,011 AOL3,214 Gmail1,968 5

6 Thank you! For more information about Windows Live @ edu, please contact your Microsoft account manager or ed-desk@microsoft.com. We also invite you to visit http://get.live.com/edu or to see what other schools are saying at http://get.live.com/edu/schools.ed-desk@microsoft.comhttp://get.live.com/eduhttp://get.live.com/edu/schools 6


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