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Windows Live Local Offers a Unique View of Where the Stars Hang Out

Microsofts online mapping service provides the inside scoop on where top celebrities spend time in the cities they call home.

REDMOND, Wash. May 4, 2006 Celebrity watchers rejoice! Today, Microsoft Corp.s online local search and mapping service, Windows Live Local, launched CelebFavorites, a Web site that pinpoints the favorite haunts of eight of the worlds top athletes and entertainers, including Eva Longoria, Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez. Each celebrity has used the site to highlight his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, clubs, shops, museums or places to hang out.
CelebFavorites.com enables people to see exactly where each celebrity hangout is on the Windows Live Local map, get directions to and from each location, click through to the Web site of each business or point of interest, and even mark their own favorite places with pushpins and e-mail them to friends and family.

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Stacy Keibler Washington, D.C., and Baltimore
Anna Kournikova Miami
Eva Longoria San Antonio
Alex Rodriguez New York
Matt Leinart Los Angeles
Brittany Murphy Edison, N.J.
Brad Paisley Nashville, Tenn.

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Flight Booking Windows Live Local combines local search, online maps, directions and local business listings into a seamless, all-in-one experience for people, said Martin Taylor, corporate vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft. By working with these celebrities to showcase the places they love to go, we hope to show how fun and easy it is to use the service, while helping people discover great new places they can call their own.

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Online Booking People can see where the celebrities spend their time by visiting http://www.celebfavorites.com or get started on a five-star list of their own by checking out Windows Live Local (http://local.live.com).

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Hotel Reservation MSN attracts more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions available globally in 42 markets and 21 languages, MSN is a world leader in delivering compelling programmed content experiences to consumers and online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide. Windows Live, a new set of personal Internet services and software, is designed to bring together in one place all the relationships, information and interests people care about most, with enhanced safety and security features across their PC, devices and the Web.

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