January, 2008

Microsoft to join DataPortability.org

Word is filtering out this morning that Microsoft, along with recent additions Google, Facebook, and Plaxo, will be joining the DataPortability.Org working group, represented by Windows Live Platform Corporate Vice President David Treadwell.  DataPortability.Org seeks to allow data sharing …

Windows 7 details emerge – look Software + Services

Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this, judging …

Comparing Search numbers

Nielsen/Netratings just released its search share numbers for December 07, completing a year’s worth of search numbers from each of the three companies that report them; Compete, Nielsen/Netratings, and Hitwise.  So what can we learn from all …

Mr. Softie goes online – will “strong arm” business tactics work with Web 2.0?

Fortune Magazine’s blog post "The hard side of Mr. Softie", where some old school strong arm tactics are ascribed to Microsoft in trying to get startup  Web 2.0 companies to use Windows Live Messenger is interesting in a …

Microsoft to buy Limelight? asks Blodget

According to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, he’s hearing more rumors that Microsoft is poised to buy Limelight Networks, a CDN (content delivery network) from which Microsoft recently licensed technology, apparently to build their own …

Mix08 on the radar

You can tell how close a conference is getting by how frequent the talk about “swag” is. CES and Gizmodogate – done. Some other trade show happening this week that nobody everybody is talking about – done. Next up on our …

.Net Framework 3.5 sourcecode now available

As this affects (potentially) all aspects of development on the Microsoft .Net platform, whether it be adding plugings to Windows Live Writer, writing your own websites incorporating many of the Windows Live API’s that have been published or maybe writing …

Customize blog entry backgrounds in Spaces

Our friend Dev Parikh of Hack MSN Spaces (congrats on the MVP award, Dev, well deserved!), along with Little Fish Big Pond, have put together a nice set of backgrounds for individual blog posts that you can download, add …

December search share numbers from Compete: more of the same

The latest search share numbers are in from Compete.com, showing no significant changes, although Live Search is trending slightly upward, and actually showed some gains in volume of searches.

MSN/Live continued the good fight in December and actually outpaced

All Angus, All the Time: more from our favorite Microsoft Executive, this time on Eye-Fi

Angus Logan, the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, last year sent out some 30,000 emails.  If our inbox is any indication, he’s looking to beat that record by a large margin this year.  However, and …