Differences between Office Live Meeting 2005 & 2007

Features	Description	2005	2007 Standard	2007 Professional
Number of participants	Total number of participants that can join each meeting	25	Up to 1,250*	Up to 1,250
Shared recordings	Option to save recordings to the hosted Live Meeting service or download recording to be stored locally on your PC.			Improved
Virtual Breakout Rooms**	Break out into groups for one-on-one training or team activities. Presenters or trainers can easily move between rooms and participate / supervise all activities.			New
Pre-meeting handouts	Scan handouts and distribute them before and during meetings.			New
Advanced Testing/Grading	Prepare tests, ask a variety of styles of questions (fill in the blanks, true/ false etc) and provide instant individual results to participants.			New
Two-way VoIP with Integrated BT MeetMe	Live Meeting provides two-way VoIP audio capability which allows participants to use their desktop phone or PC speakers and microphone to attend a meeting. The Live Meeting VoIP feature is internet reliant and has no audio support helpdesk. To assure a superior audio experience BT Conferencing provisions all users with a BT MeetMe audio conference service with every Live Meeting account, supported by a 24/7 helpdesk.		New	New
Integrated audio conferencing	No need to dial into a conference call. Attendees simply click on a URL link to join the web conference and then request for the service to dial-out to link them to the audio portion of the conference.
Panoramic video by Microsoft Office RoundTable	360-degree panoramic video function with Microsoft Round Table video device enables video conferencing between meeting rooms and remote participants.		New	New
Webcam video	Show live webcam video of meeting participants/presenters during the meeting.		New	New
Video (Rich Media) in presentations	Multimedia files can now be easily uploaded to present. All media clips are virus scanned by Microsoft Forefront before distribution to meeting attendees.		New	New
Personal Recordings	Recordings can be stored locally on the computer of the presenter or participant.		New	New
Annotation tools	Annotation tools, which include rich text, shapes, flowcharts, and fonts and colors can be used to edit documents.		Improved	Improved
Shared Notes Pane	The always-on Shared Notes pane enables every attendee to view and edit shared action items to ensure everyone is in synch on key deliverables.		New	New
Simplified user interface	Redesigned user interface to help participants focus on core content, by removing all functions to be seen from the main viewing screen.		New	New

* Up to 1,250 participants for a pence per minute license/15 participants for named user license

** Computer Audio & Audio conferencing is currently not available for Breakout Rooms. Attendees can use the non-verbal communication tools to communicate with each other for example online chat, Q&A, white board, text screens and content sharing.