LiveSide - Interview Blog : Windows Live Platform

Windows Live 2009: Colin Anthony and Emmanuel Miranda

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:11:00 GMT

Up until Wave 3, Windows Live has been a suite pretty much in name only. In Wave 2, services were focused, some were culled, in order to make some sense of the seemingly random slapping of the Windows Live moniker on any piece of code that walked by (remember Windows Live Barcode?). In Wave 3, not only was the look and feel of the online experience cleaned up, but internally teams started working on a single product: Windows Live, instead of a number of separate products with a common name.

In our next segment, Colin Anthony, Senior Program Manager, Custom Experience Platform team, and Emannuel Miranda, Developer Lead for the same team, talk about Home.live.com, shared experiences across the web applications, and how the way they look at their work has changed:

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Previously, we chatted with Windows Live Senior Director Ryan Gavin, and let Omar Shahine explain a bit about POP3 – we’ll have more from Omar soon, and hear from 3 more Windows Live managers.

Our interview with David Treadwell of Windows Live Platform Services at Mix08

Kip Kniskern — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:49:00 GMT

Microsoft is betting heavily on Software + Services, the concept that all the power of the desktop will not go away when services are introduced, rather that storage and computing power, local to the user, will continue to play a big role in how we use computers. For the past couple of years, David Treadwell has been working along with Ray Ozzie and others to develop what has been known as Windows Live Core, now Windows Live Platform Services. This platform, which we will be talking quite a bit more about shortly, is the beginnings of a transformation at Microsoft - not switching from Software to Services, but bringing services along as an integral added piece to software. David Treadwell is the Corporate Vice President for Windows Live Platform Services at Microsoft, and we talked to him at Mix08 about the platform, and how it relates to Windows Live.

01 00:00:34         Windows Live Platform Services defined: A developer platform for services, blended with client: the best of both worlds

02 00:01:23         Messenger Services Library API: A good example of the Software + Services model

03 00:02:57         Integrating a front end for Messenger into a website

04 00:04:03         The Windows Live Platform: Comparing it to the PC file system in the 80’s; working towards an ability to create a service just like creating an application

05 00:07:36         Identity Services and Interoperability: What’s different from Passport and Hailstorm

06 00:10:39         Issues with ID services: Spam

07 00:11:52         Is Microsoft turning towards an Open model?

08 00:13:12         Advertising? Artificial barriers to keep users will fail in the long run

09 00:14:38         Microsoft is serious about Software + Services

8mb mp3 download - 17 minutes and 20 seconds

Windows Live Platform: our interview with Angus Logan

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:44:00 GMT

Angus Logan is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, a title he only dusts off occasionally. Usually he's too busy building out content for Windows Live Quick Apps, or creating cool tools like the Messenger IM control, or working with Chris Keating from Windows Live Gallery to build a gadget to add that IM control to Spaces.

We met up with Angus in a conference room in Red West A, where we talked about Windows Live Platform, complete with whiteboarding:

Angus talks about the 5 categories, or buckets, included in the Windows Live Platform, along with the Terms of Use:

Rich Media (Silverlight, Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live)
Storage and Sharing
Communicating and Staying Connected
Finding and Locating (Search, Virtual Earth)
Identity / Authentication

We talked about those five categories, took a high level look at the Windows Live Platform, talked about where the platform is and where it's going, and spent some time talking about what's coming up, including CES and Mix08.

Introducing Angus Logan	00:00
A higher level look at Windows Live Platform	00:51
Some possible uses for the IM control; more consumer tools coming	03:25
The 5 categories of Windows Live Platform services	04:31
Terms of use	09:36
What's been announced, and what to look for	11:40
Platform focused on web developers, for now	15:17
"A large social network" gets some new stuff around December	17:02
The Windows Live Team at Mix08	17:39
On releasing tools as soon as possible	19:06
3rd party participation with the Windows Live Platform	20:22
On Quick Apps; lots more to come	24:06

Our interview with Angus Logan (mp3 12mb approx 25 minutes) (we'll be adding the Silverlight streaming back in shortly, once we tweak a couple of things)

Windows Live Platform: Interview With Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan

ScottIsAFool — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:47:00 GMT

At MixUK this week, I got a chance to sit down with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan who are both very much involved with the Windows Live Platform. It was an interesting chat, finding out some new information, so take a listen. The breakdown of the interview is as follows:

00:15 - Intros
01:04 - What's been at Mix UK
01:51 - Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
05:20 - What is Windows Live Data? (Can you spot my deliberate mistake)
09:30 - Future APIs? SkyDrive perhaps? REST vs SOAP vs ?
12:13 - Public knowledge of the Windows Live Platform and the WL Developer community
17:10 - Visual Studio Toolkit for Windows Live
18:58 - Closing up.

What really got my attention was the Toolkit that is coming for Visual Studio, it's great to see something like this being done, and hopefully makes it that bit easier for developers to leverage the Windows Live Platform.

For the first time, we are also letting you listen to the interview from within this blog entry and we are doing this using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. I have also included "chapter" points in the audio, so pressing the skip button (next to the stop button) will take you straight to the points mentioned above. (Watch out for a post later showing just how I went about doing all this).

Listen: LiveSide with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan.mp3, Duration: 19:56, Filesize: 9.12mb