Windows Live for TV


Windows Live for TV is a discontinued Windows Media Center application that was part of Microsoft's Windows Live services. It provided users to access Windows Live Spaces, Messenger, and Call on their large-screen monitors or TVs using their PC.
The goal of Windows Live for TV before its discontinuation was to integrate the services of Windows Live into a 10-foot interface for use on televisions as a Windows Media Center application, bringing social networking and instant messaging to a new form factor that would've been both intuitive and fun to use. The application is built using Windows Presentation Foundation and runs within Windows Media Center or directly in Windows Vista's Internet Explorer 7.0 browser.
The design of the user interface is glossy on its top and bottom panels, displaying a search box on the top panel, and buttons to change status and to sign out on the bottom. The design and background is based on Windows Live's Wave 1 design language with its bright lines of energy creating depth. Users would scroll through the content on a 3D carousel; scrolling vertically also goes through the different types of content from Windows Live like Spaces or Messenger information.
Planned features of Windows Live for TV included:
Although beta versions of this service have been released, only Spaces functionality was available. A Program Manager has stated that development has ceased, and the service was shut down on June 24, 2008. The Windows Live for TV team blog has not been updated for a year, while the WPF/XBAP technology used in Windows Live for TV was deprecated by Microsoft in Windows Media Center SDK 5.3.
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Requirements

Windows Live for TV requires the following system requirements prior to installation: