Microsoft recently announced a Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, which declared to be a "complete event-conference solution" and they also announced the core feature-set for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. Currently a preview of Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 will be available to current customers (Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005).

You can get different Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 screenshots from http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/uc/gallery.mspx

Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 download is available in location http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101733831033.aspx

Microsoft is offering both a hosted model for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 as well as a CPE (customer premise equipment) solution, namely Office Communications Server 2007. In addition to Microsoft directly hosting Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, hosting partners will also offer Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 as a fee-based service. Whether attendees use the Live Meeting service or the Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) to power their web conference, they will use the same client to deliver a seamless meeting experience.

Important new fetures are
  • Rich media presentations (incl. Windows Media and Flash)
  • Live webcam video
  • Panoramic video" with Microsoft RoundTable
  • Multi-party two-way VoIP audio
  • PSTN and VoIP audio integration
  • Active speaker indicator
  • Public events page
  • Advanced testing and grading
  • High fidelity recordings
  • Personal recordings
  • Virtual Breakout Rooms
  • "Handout" distribution (File Transfer)

Live Meeting Web Access was redesigned in this release to provide a user experience that is nearly identical to the new Windows-based Live Meeting client. One huge benefit is that Live Meeting Web Access is available also on non-Windows operating systems such as Linux, Macs, etc.

Microsoft also pointed out the Microsoft Roundtable product which is a 360 degree video camera optimized to work with Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. One nice feature is that the Microsoft Office Live Meeting client will automatically switch the larger video window to the actively speaking participant. This auto-switch feature isn't specific to the Microsoft Roundtable product - it will work with any USB-based camera. The main advantage of Roundtable is its 360 degree camera view, which is great for conference rooms with several participants. With specially designed microphones, Roundtable is able to determine the location of the active speaker and then tell Microsoft Office Live Meeting which camera angle to focus on.

 

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