Microsoft has announced plans to include parental monitoring and filtering features in its upcoming Windows Live web services offering:
Windows Live is part of Microsoft's strategy to consolidate a range of Web services — e-mail, instant messaging, online PC security and blogs — to compete with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. for Internet advertising dollars. Windows Live is being tested now and will launch sometime in the second half of 2006.
Microsoft plans to roll out Windows Live Family Safety Settings in the summer, which will allow parents to filter Web sites and receive reports to see what their children are doing online. The company also plans to eventually allow parents to control who communicates with their children over e-mail, instant messaging and in their blogs.
Link (Thanks, Kathryn Cramer)
