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Live@edu Integrates Exchange Labs
- Support for attachments up to 20 MB;
- Access to e-mail, contacts, and calendar from Outlook and Outlook Web Access;
- Support for Web-enabled mobile phones;
- Message tracking (i.e., to determine whether a given message was delivered);
- Content filtering (in addition to spam filtering);
- Custom branding for the inbox with a school's logo and theme;
- School e-mail addresses for graduates;
- Global address lists;
- Shared calendars; and
- Support for the creation of distribution lists, with the ability to limit who can post to that list.
For those who prefer to use the Windows Live Hotmail service, that continues to be a part of Live@edu.
Anna Kinney, group product manager for Microsoft Live@edu, told us, "Students are coming to universities with more technology background and experience than ever before. And what I'm hearing from [campus] IT administrators I've talked to is that they are continuing to look for more and more ways they can meet students where they are with their level of sophistication--online services, virtual collaboration spaces, online storage--and Microsoft Live@edu brings that capability to campuses in a very quick and seamless way."
Although Live@edu's focus is on higher education, it's also available to K-12 schools.
In related news, Microsoft said it will be hosting Live@edu World, a conference for Live@edu members, at its Redmond campus June 23 trough 24. Further information about that event can be found here.
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