Creating a Live.com Ecosystem

The Live.com service has tools and applications that are attractive to consumers, businesses, developers and advertisers. Each of these groups is fueled by the presence of the other groups (for more on discussion of network effects check out the earlier blog on embracing the network). Describing Windows and Office Live is a moving target but the diagram below attempts to place the various services in context in the ecosystem and identify those components that have a desktop client dependency.