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 Screenshot of Windows Live Home, which served as a central location to access all Windows Live services | |
Type of site | Software plus services (Web applications) |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | August 2013 (2013-08) |
| Owner | Microsoft |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 330 million |
| Launched | November 1, 2005 (2005-11-01) |
| Current status | Closed |
Content license | Proprietary |
Windows Live Home is a discontinuedweb portal launched byMicrosoft as part of itsWindows Live services. It aimed to bring many of the Windows Live services together in one place, by providing a central location to access Windows Live services and monitor status information.[1]
Windows Live Home was first revealed on August 3, 2007 atMicrosoft Japan's annual Business Strategic Meeting 2008. It was expected that a new version of Live.com (laterWindows Live Personalized Experience, now defunct) would be released in Fall 2007, featuring a new interface design together with Windows Live service integrations.[2] Microsoft later confirmed that Windows Live Home would not be a replacement for Live.com.
Some of the early announced features for Windows Live Home included:
The final version of Windows Live Home was released on October 15, 2007. One notable feature of the first release of Windows Live Home was the ability to set the location of the user and display the current weather conditions for the city or region selected. The color of the homepage also automatically changed according to the time of the day.
Windows Live Home was updated on December 2, 2008 as part of the overall Windows Live Wave 3 update. In April 2010,live
In 2012, Microsoft began to phase out the Windows Live brand, and introducedOutlook.com as a future replacement for Hotmail. As Outlook.com sends users directly to their inbox when logging in, there is no equivalent of Windows Live Home. After the final Hotmail accounts were migrated to the new Outlook.com UI in May 2013,[3] Windows Live Home ceased to exist.
Windows Live Home integrated tightly with other Windows Live services, serving as the entry point to many other services. These services featured the following: