Your students want an email inbox they can use as their primary account and innovative services that make it easy to collaborate. Live@edu has that and more.
Email
Give your students a Hotmail inbox for a fun and personalized experienced, or a Microsoft Exchange Labs inbox for an experience similar to what they may use in the workforce. Compare Exchange Labs and Hotmail.
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Windows Live Hotmail
The world’s most-used webmail service gives students what they need.
- 5 GB inbox, 10 MB attachments
- Spam and virus filtering
- Interface that’s more like Outlook
- Forwarding, POP3 and Outlook Connector for access on a mobile phone or desktop client
- Shared calendars
- Folders to organize email
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Microsoft Exchange Labs
Give students the full Exchange experience. Same benefits as Hotmail, plus:
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- 10 GB inbox, 20 MB attachments
- Optimized Outlook experience
- Integrated Directory with faculty/staff on Exchange
- Shared calendar and contacts
- Message Tracking
- Click here for more details
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Collaboration
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Office Live Workspace
Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is your online place to save, access, and share documents and files. No downloads are required. Sign up for a personal workspace
- Password-protected online storage for 1,000+ documents
- Extension of Microsoft Office
- No more flash drives or sending documents to yourself as e-mail attachments
- Collaborate with others, even if they don't have Office
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Windows Live SkyDrive
Lets students store documents online so they can access them from any computer and share with others.
- 5 GB password-protected online storage
- Create private, shared, and public folders
- Store your documents online and access from other computers
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Microsoft SharedView beta
Share your desktop with up to 15 other users.
- Give a presentation
- Share control with other students to edit a document together in real time
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Windows Live Spaces
Let students set up a space for group projects, campus clubs, or personal pages.
- Link to documents stored on your SkyDrive
- Share your space with the world or with those you select from your contact list
- Create blogs
- Group discussions
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Communication
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Windows Live Messenger
The world's #1 IM client lets students do more than just chat
- Group chat with up to 15 others
- Search Encarta Online
- Using Sharing Folders, share documents too large to send as attachments
- Send SMS message from Messenger interface
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Windows Live Alerts
Students can receive SMS alerts on their mobile phone.
- E-mail, IM, and mobile alerts – students choose which
- Campus announcement alerts
- General info alerts – breaking news, weather info, sports scores and more
- Custom alerts to select members of the campus community
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Mobile
Live@edu services are accessible via mobile phones.
- Windows Live Spaces, Hotmail, Messenger are WAP-enabled
- Receive e-mail on mobile phone through POP3
- Windows Live for Mobile allows push e-mail to Nokia and Windows Mobile phones
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