As long is it is impossible to build applications without hosting the connect site in the application the whole messenger connect stuff is useless :(

I really hope that MS will up their game with respect to API’s that enable programmability of Windows Live. We need the successor to the live framework, which was a good idea but wrong implementation it seems. I honestly never really understood the what’s and how’s about it, but the general idea of enabling 3rd parties to extend your own services still very much stands.

Just look at how dropbox is flourishing with 3rd party apps on both the web and iOS. Microsoft should do something similar with Skydrive/Mesh/Sharepoint and enable 3rd parties to tap into their framework from WP and the web. The prime integrator for Windows has always been the file system. This is essentially the one spot where different applications could exchange data and open each others files, and Skydrive should enable the same thing, just like box.net lets you “install” Zoho, etc.

They’ve wanted people to use their identity services for years, and while the idea of a single logon is fine, they’ve never seemed to understand that they first need to build something that people would want to sign up for and then they might be pursuaded to use that identity to sign in at other places.

Anyway, I just think it’s really sad to visit dev.live.com and see how little is going on at the moment so any news, however small, makes me hope that they will pick up the pace.

Come on MS, it’s the perfect way to bring together Azure, Windows Phone and Windows and open up those platforms to developers in Visual Studio (Express).

Maybe, what we will see from Apple is a web based app store, that will let developers extend and tie into their cloud offering, while retaining a 30 percent commision. MS should be in that game.