Windows Live 2009: Pierro Sierra on shared data experience

Kip Kniskern — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:59:00 GMT

We hope you’ve enjoyed our discussions with some of the program managers working on Windows Live, we really appreciate the opportunity to get to sit down and talk to them, and appreciate the opportunity to bring them to you.

Our last interview of the day was with Piero Sierra, Group Program Manager for Shared Data Experience. We ended up talking for a good twenty minutes on camera, and since we try to keep these video interviews around 10 minutes or so I broke this one up in to two parts.

In part one, Piero begins with a quick definition of shared data experience (sdx), his team is responsible for SkyDrive, Windows Live Sync, and Windows Live Toolbar. We started out talking about the differences between Live Mesh and Windows Live Sync, talked a bit about SkyDrive, and then Piero described one of his favorites, Windows Live Toolbar:

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In part two, Piero talks about the uptake of the new services without getting too specific about numbers, we talked about what it means to run these services the scale of the internet, and then touched on how FolderShare has been transformed into Windows Live Sync, and some hints of what’s to come now that the move to Live ID and the inclusion into the Essentials suite has taken place.

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Hopefully we’ll be able to continue our discussions with the people who bring you Windows Live, again, we really enjoyed our day of meetings, and look forward to doing it again soon.

Live Mesh video interview parts 1 and 2: Abhay Parasnis and Jeff Hanson

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:08:00 GMT

Our coverage of PDC continues with some big announcements about Live Mesh coming out of LA. Sometime this week you will be required to update Live Mesh, and after that will be introduced to some significant changes. Beginning with very limited betas (much like the way Live Mesh itself was rolled out gradually), Live Mesh will soon include support for Macs, and for mobile (Windows Mobile 6). We will also see coming up in the next few months the addition of “web apps”, small programs that can be run in the browser “in the cloud”, or also offline, and will have the same sync capabilities that Live Mesh folders do. Right now these web apps are only available to developers, we'll have more on how you can get a chance to play with them in upcoming posts.

I talked to Abhay Parasnis, General Manager Live Mesh, and Jeff Hanson, General Manager Services Marketing about Live Mesh, the Azure Platform and the new web apps in part one of the interview:

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(just a couple of technical notes: 1: no they didn’t put us in the kitchen ;), we were in a very nice press cubicle with no ceiling not far away from where they were clearing lunch from the press room. Really it didn’t sound like that live, but not much we could have done about it anyway, and 2: sorry about a bit of a smudge on the camera lens, could have done something about that, lesson learned)

In part two, we move around behind Abhay’s laptop and get to take a look at web apps:

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We’ll have lots more on Live Mesh coming up. In the meantime you can take a look at www.microsoftpdc.com, materials for a number of the sessions are already up.

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Windows Live 2009: Pierro Sierra on shared data experience

Live Mesh video interview parts 1 and 2: Abhay Parasnis and Jeff Hanson