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Desktop - Application Sharing

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Microsoft Live Meeting integrates a very effective application sharing facility which allows the presenter to select among multiple approaches to share what is appearing on her screen.

Labeled as "Sharing Slide" within the "everything-is-a-slide" metaphor adopted by the Live Meeting interface, application sharing can indeed be enabled in a three possible ways.

a) By using the "sharing frame". This is a movable and resizable frame that sits on top of all of your open applications. You position the frame to include whatever image or document portion you want the other users to see and then you click the only button available on the frame and portraying a photo-camera. As you do a screenshot is taken and the image is diaplyed for all attendees to see.

b) By sharing the entire desktop. This approach allows you to have everyone see whatever is going on on your screen without any filter or moderation. What you see, they see also.

c) By sharing a selected application. This mode provides the presenter with the ability to select one application that she would like to share with the attendees. Once the application is selected, attendees can see only the ones that the presenter has chosen.

Through the application sharing main dialog box one can also access an "Options" button, which provides access to color-depth controls. These allow the presenter to set how many colors are going to be displayed during an application sharing session. The choice is left open to optimize the quality and performance of each session according to the material being presented and to the participants technical setup.

As soon as the presenter selects either the desktop or a specific application to share a sharing control panel appears floating on the screen. On it, three large buttons provide access to basic Start, Pause and Stop functions, allowing the presenter to pause at any time during a sharing session to prevent attendess from seeing tasks she needs to carry out invisibly.