Windows Live Events was an online service by Microsoft

Microsoft

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 as part of its Windows Live

Windows Live

Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft, part of their software plus services platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require...

 range of services that enabled users in Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform. The site was originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces to compete with other social networking sites, and re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand...

 to share and plan different types of Events happening around them while collaborating with other services such as Windows Live Hotmail Calendar and Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform. The site was originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces to compete with other social networking sites, and re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand...

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The service allowed users to plan and manage their own Events, add them to their Space, receive Alerts

Windows Live Alerts

Windows Live Alerts was a part of the Windows Live services from Microsoft that allowed users to get notification of time-sensitive events and information from various alert content providers...

 and integrate with other Windows Live services such as Calendar. It is similar to Facebook Events.

Windows Live Events disallowed new events to be created starting from September 3, 2009, however still allowed users to access their existing events after this date. The service was fully retired in April 2010 and replaced by Windows Live Hotmail Calendar.

Features

Windows Live Events offered the following features:

• Create an event with a single setup page, and customize it with more than 100 templates as well as Windows Live Spaces modules
• Invite guests to the event, using Windows Live People
  Windows Live Contacts
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   contacts, or invite non-Windows Live ID
  Windows Live ID
  Windows Live ID is a single sign-on web service developed and provided by Microsoft that allows users to log in to many websites using one account...
  
   users by using their email address
• Bing Maps integration to show location and directions to the event
• Send out customized invitation emails with links so invitees can view, collaborate, and share files and photos
• Integrate with Windows Live Hotmail Calendar and other third party calendar protocols, including iCal, Yahoo! Calendar and Google Calendar
  Google Calendar
  Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009...
  
  
• Manage discussion lists
• Share photos, files and comments with Windows Live Photos and Windows Live SkyDrive
  Windows Live SkyDrive
  Windows Live SkyDrive, initially called Windows Live Folders, is a free-of-charge file hosting service that allows users to upload files to a cloud storage and then access them from a Web browser...