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1 Version comparison guide Live Meeting 2007 vs. Live Meeting 2005 Live Meeting 2007 introduces many new features and provides several areas of improved functionality when compared with the previous version, Live Meeting Connected Organizations Live Meeting 2007 Live Meeting 2005 Host collaborative meetings quickly and cost-effectively Streamlined user experience Interactive whiteboard and annotation tools IMPROVED X Shared notes pane Train distributed employees and partners and conduct events that scale to support large audiences Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook X X Event and class registration IMPROVED X Public events page Advanced testing and grading X X High fidelity recordings Shared recordings X X Personal recordings Microsoft event services X X Meeting reports X X Meeting content storage and management tools X X Programming APIs IMPROVED X

2 Engaged Attendees Live Meeting 2007 Live Meeting 2005 Keep attendees engaged with an integrated rich media and conferencing experience Rich media presentations Native live webcam video Integrated media experience Integrated PowerPoint viewer X X Drag and drop upload to view a wide range of document file types X X Make meetings more interactive with two-way multi-party video and audio experience Panoramic video by Microsoft Office RoundTable PSTN and Two-way VOIP audio integration Audio conference call controls X X Speaker indicator Handout distribution Virtual Breakout Rooms Enterprise-Class Reliability Live Meeting 2007 Live Meeting 2005 Redeploy IT resources on other business-critical projects First-class end-user support included with service X X Automatic client installation and upgrade X X Intranet Portal to simplify rollout X X Depend on a reliable service with a proven track-record 99.99% historical availability X X Certified data centers X X Virus Scanning by Microsoft Forefront

3 List and - Live Meeting 2007 The following section lists and describes the features in Live Meeting s are grouped according to the key investment areas of Live Meeting 2007: Connected Organizations, Engaged Attendees, and Enterprise-Class Reliability. Connected Organizations Host collaborative meetings quickly and cost-effectively Streamlined user experience Streamlined user experience for web use Single meeting client for on-premise and hosted conferencing Interactive whiteboard and annotation tools Shared notes pane Large area for viewing shared documents focuses attendees on content. Participants only see tool bars relevant to their permissions and to the content being shared. When showing a video, presenter gets access to start/stop/pause controls; when sharing a document, attendees access annotation tools. Most common tasks such as controlling audio or recordings are provided in primary tools bars for easy access, less frequent tasks such as Slide Cycling are hidden in menus. Web-based client allows attendees on non-ms platforms (Solaris, Mac) to attend meetings. The Live Meeting 2007 web-based client was updated to reflect the new User Experience. The Live Meeting client works with both LM service and Office Communications Server Use new annotation tools, which include rich text, sophisticated shapes, flowcharts, and fonts and colors, on the whiteboard. Take advantage of the new always-on shared notes pane. Train distributed employees and partners and conduct events that scale to support large audiences Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook Event and class registration Public events page Advanced testing and grading High fidelity recordings Conferencing Add-in for Outlook allows users to easily see availability of required participants, send meeting invitations, and track responses. In addition, enables automatic inclusion of audio conference information, scheduling of meetings from Outlook while offline and sending of separate attendee and presenter invitations. Conferencing Add-in is integrated into the Outlook Ribbon. Track lead information and integrate data (such as attendance, registration questions, etc) through APIs with LOB applications. Registration is now tightly integrated with the core Live Meeting user experience. Prospects can now be invited via and confirmations will be sent as calendar items. Easily set up ongoing marketing events and gather information about your prospects before they join the meeting via the Public Event Page Prepare tests, ask a variety of styles of questions (fill in the blanks, true/ false, singleselect, multi-select, etc) and provide individual results to participants. Record rich media presentations and play them back in high fidelity.

4 Connected Organizations - Continued Shared and Personal Recordings Microsoft event services Meeting reports Meeting content storage and management tools Programming APIs No special hardware needed for recording and recordings are hosted by the LM service, easily accessible to authorized viewers. In addition recordings can be made and stored locally on the computer of the presenter Microsoft Event Services available for customers who want professionally managed events. Attendance reports allow event coordinators to view attendee details. Additional reports include meeting and recording Reports, trends reports, meeting attendance and poll reports, and storage management reports. Meeting content remains available for a fixed period of time in the online meeting room to support ongoing and recurring meetings. New storage management tools allow for search and removal of content. A broader set of APIs allow for integration with Learning Management Systems other Line of Business applications. Engaged Attendees Keep attendees engaged with an integrated rich media and conferencing experience Rich media presentations Native live webcam video Integrated media experience Integrated PowerPoint viewer Drag and drop upload to view a wide range of document file types Incorporate media displayed in Windows Media Player and Adobe Flash movie clips into meetings and training sessions. Show live webcam video of meeting participants alongside their presentation in one of two display modes. Audio-switched mode dynamically moves among participants and shows the attendee who is currently speaking. Alternately, you can manually select the video image of a particular attendee. Picture-in-picture preview shows the currently connected local video source. New user interface brings together live and recorded video, chat, slide and application sharing, VoIP and PSTN audio, and audience feedback tools. Full fidelity PowerPoint viewing including animations and transitions. Drag and drop uploading makes importing and viewing of documents easy. Live Meeting supports the import of wide range of document file types (any document that can be printed including Office, Project, Visio, OneNote, HTML, PDF and more) so that participants can bring all relevant content to the online meeting

5 Engaged Attendees - Continued Make meetings more interactive with two-way multi-party video and audio experience Panoramic video by Microsoft Office RoundTable PSTN and Two-way VOIP audio integration Audio conference call controls Speaker indicator Handout distribution Virtual Breakout Rooms Show a 360-degree panoramic video of everyone in the conference room when used with a RoundTable device. Connect several individual participants with their team assembled in a conference room. Alternatively, connect teams in two conference rooms. LM provides the two-way VoIP audio capability Attendees can use their desktop phone or speakers and microphone on their PCs to participate in the audio conference. All audio participants are seamlessly connected and can talk during the meeting regardless of their audio choice. Presenters do not need to worry about which mechanism a participant chose to join since all audio controls are available through a single control tool bar. Live Meeting audio conference call controls provide the deepest integration with the audio providers, that have been certified by our Audio Integration team. This allows users the ability to: dial-out directly to participant s phone; mute/unmute telephone audio; eject participants; lock conference; audio conference call roster. A Speaker indicator will appear on the attendee list so that you know exactly which VoIP participant is speaking Scan handouts with Microsoft Forefront and distribute them before and during meetings in their native file format Break out into discussion groups for one-on-one training or more subject matter drill down. Bring back class materials to main session. Instructors can roam between the rooms and make broadcast announcements to address students across the various breakouts.

6 Enterprise-Class Reliability Redeploy IT resources on other business-critical projects First-class end-user support included with service Automatic client installation and upgrade Intranet Portal to simplify rollout Telephone and support is provided not only for your own meeting organizers, but also to the attendees of their meetings, even if they are external to your organization, resolving meeting join issues and answering how-to questions. Client automatically installs or upgrades to latest version when attendee joins a meeting Intranet Portal allows deploying Live Meeting across the organization, automatically creating user accounts and authenticating with Active Directory. Password reset tool. Depend on a reliable service with a proven track-record 99.99% historical availability 99.99% uptime is ensured by a decade of operating experience and backed by the resources of a Fortune 100 company. Placeware, the original web conferencing vendor, started offering the technology in 1996 and was acquired by Microsoft in The Senior Leadership and many Operations specialists are still hands-on involved with operating and improving the service. Cybertrust & SAS70-certified data centers provide secure content storage. Cybertrust, a leading independent authority, certified that the Live Meeting service meets the requirements of the Cybertrust Application Certification and Service Provider Certification security assurance program, and is permitted to display the Cybertrust Certified Seal. Certified data centers Service Provider Certification includes regular (quarterly and annual) Perimeter Risk Assessment, Internal Risk Assessment, On-Site Data Collection, Filter Check, War Dial Assessment. Application Certification includes regular (quarterly and annual) Process and Management review, Functional Testing, Source code review. Secure communication Virus Scanning by Microsoft Forefront Secure communication across firewalls, SSL encryption of data transmissions and authentication using strong password policies and 128-bit encryption secure meetings Virus Scanning by Microsoft Forefront, the industry-leading virus scanner, protects meeting documents before distributing them to attendees.