“The Year of Windows Live” – Our interview with Ryan Gavin and Walter Harp

Windows Live Wave 4 is coming, soon, and even though the folks at Microsoft aren’t quite ready to talk about what’s new, we took a few minutes today to speak with Ryan Gavin, Sr. ... Read more »

Office Web Applications: we talk with Chris Bryant about consumer use

We had a chance this week to sit down and talk with Chris Bryant, Director, Office Product Management at Microsoft, to talk a little bit more about Office Web Applications and specifically how Windows ... Read more »

WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview

In this second part of our interview with Mike Torres, a PM for Windows Live Movie Maker, we talk a bit more about how WLMM was built: the weekly meetings with teams from Office ... Read more »

WL Movie Maker Program Manager Mike Torres – a LiveSide interview

Windows Live Movie Maker version 1.0 for Vista and Windows 7 was released nearly two weeks ago, and we gave you an early glimpse of it when it first came out (and even before ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Pierro Sierra on shared data experience

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 ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Omar Shahine part 2 – People in Windows Live

While Omar Shahine has been kind enough to talk to us (twice) about POP3 support in Hotmail, it’s not really what he works on.  Omar has been busy down in Mountain View, California, working ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Jeff Kunins and Windows Live Social Experience

Jeff Kunins is a Group Program Manager for Social Networking for Windows Live, working on some of the features of Windows Live that cut across what used to be separate products.  Working on Spaces ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Rodger Benson on Windows Live Photo Gallery

In our next interview, we spent some time with Rodger Benson, a program manager working on Photo Gallery talking about facial recognition, new upload limits for photos on photos.live.com (or Spaces), how Photo Gallery ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Colin Anthony and Emmanuel Miranda

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 ... Read more »

Windows Live 2009: Our interview with Ryan Gavin, Sr. Director, Windows Live

2008 was a momentous year for Windows Live.  After lots of fanfare, but with no real direction, Windows Live first appeared in early 2006, with lots of new apps, lots of rebranding (and re-rebranding), ... Read more »