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Microsoft is tuning its vision for that the Windows Live Platform that is in the center of its Windows Live technique. The Windows Live advancement platform that Microsoft envisions now is various in several crucial methods in the one that organization officials outlined last year. At a January 7 session at Microsoft's Vista Lab in Las Vegas on the Reside developer platform Scott Swanson, director of platform planning for Windows Reside, outlined Microsoft's current and evolving vision the Live platform. (Other Reside team members showed us for your hundreth time the always-demo-friendly Virtual Earth mapping stuff. Unfortunately,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, we got no demos of Windows Reside for TV, aka "Nemo"/"Orbit." And,Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, as expected, there were no mentions of LiveDrive.) Microsoft currently is working to create and open up two categories of Reside application programming interfaces (APIs), Swanson said. 1 of these categories is infrastructure APIs, specifically, identity, relationship, storage, communications, payment/points, advertising and domain APIs. The other is application services APIs, including instant-messaging/VOIP, search, Spaces (blogging), mapping, mail/calendar and classifieds APIs. Underlying all of these APIs is adCenter,Office 2007 Activation Key, Microsoft's online-advertising platform. And atop these two groups of APIs, Microsoft plans to deliver a common application framework for the Web, PCs and devices, Swanson said. Microsoft plans to provide more details and deliverables in the Windows Reside platform space by the time of its Mix '07 conference in late April, Swanson said. "All of these will be released as services over time. But it will take a couple years to get all this stuff out," Swanson acknowledged. Previously, Microsoft described its Windows Live platform in a slightly numerous (and vaguer) way. During a couple of different developer events in 2005, Microsoft described the Windows Reside platform of consisting of three sets of APIs: contacts, identity and storage. Above this layer, Microsoft officials said they were building an optional layer of "common services," including Reside Search, adCenter, presence,Office Professional Plus 2007 Key, mapping and mobile interfaces. And atop this layer, in Microsoft's 2005 platform view, was a set of Live applications and experiences, like Reside Mail, Live Messenger,Windows 7 Enterprise, Spaces, Live Marketplaces, Live video and Xbox Reside gaming. In Microsoft's new view of the Reside Platform world, adCenter isn't optional; it's a mandatory, core element of the platform upon which Microsoft expects developers to build. And until now, the idea of a common developer framework of some kind has been implied, but not promised.